GOODFELLAS (1990)

Scorsese’s most cutting exploration of the gangster lifestyle. I like the movie. The lifestyle’s not for me.

SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1998)

Few fictional movies are now considered definitive documents of historical events, but this is one of them. This is what happened now.

TOY STORY (1995)

The first feature-length computer animated movie spawned an entire industry while exploring those perennial kids’ movies themes of obsolescence and existential dread.

MULAN (1998)

The original, animated Mulan stands out as maybe the most “grown up” movie of the “Disney Renaissance.”