25 Best Movies Of The Past 25 Years (Including 2023)

Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT While 1999 may have seemed like just yesterday, taking a look back at the best movies of the past 25 years shows the wild journey within the movie industry. The end of the 20th century may not have been the seismic shift some were predicting, but looking just at the movies that have been made over the intervening years, it is clear that the business has gone through considerable changes.

It is hard to describe the cultural flip that occurred when The Matrix was released. Arriving at the end of the 20th century, it is a rare movie that felt like it was the beginning of the new future, and given the number of films it influenced afterward, it was in many ways. The Matrix is a mind-bending sci-fi movie that follows Keanu Reeves' mild-mannered Neo who is opened up to the truth that the reality he and everyone else live in is a simulation created by machines to enslave humanity.

There is so much ambition on the screen with a relatively small movie that watching Memento feels like Nolan is announcing himself to the world and showing what he can do. It is a maze of an experience that all leads to a brilliant twist ending.

Release Date December 3, 2003 Director Peter Jackson Cast Elijah Wood , Ian McKellen , Liv Tyler , Viggo Mortensen , Sean Astin , Cate Blanchett , John Rhys-Davies , Bernard Hill , Billy Boyd , Dominic Monaghan , Orlando Bloom , Hugo Weaving , Miranda Otto , David Wenham , Karl Urban , John Noble , Andy Serkis , Ian Holm , Sean Bean Franchise The Lord of the Rings Every movie in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy is packed with emotion and action, but The Return of the King is the best...

Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Julie Delpy’s screenplay, Hawke and Delpy’s chemistry, and Lee Daniel’s cinematography combine to form a flawless romantic drama with even higher stakes than the original. More than the other two in Linklater’s trilogy, Before Sunset offers one of the most enticing, perhaps tormenting endings in romance movie history.

The performances from Abigail Breslin as Olive and Paul Dano as Olive’s older brother Dwayne were emotionally brilliant. Though they were very different, they each learned the importance of family support as they overcame life's challenges. With family being the central theme of Little Miss Sunshine, it was extremely fitting that the ending brought the Hoovers together for a wacky performance of Rick James' “Super Freak.

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