A review by cmbussmann
Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen by Brian Raftery

4.0

Fantastic deep-dive into 1999, a truly great year for cinema. I was fortunate to see many of these films in the theater, some more-than-once, and it was a fertile, febrile, all-to-brief era of unbridled cinematic freedom and pre-millennium tension. I appreciate how the author embraces a diversity of films head-on, weaving a complex story of each film’s genesis, production, immediate impact, and subsequent legacy. At no point (other than the epilogue) does it feel like this book trades on nostalgia. I appreciated that approach and would gladly read more film criticism from this author.