For Letterboxd, Dan Mecca picked some underrated movies from the year 1999 aka “the best movie year ever”:
1999 is often referred to as the single greatest movie year of all time. It’s such a common refrain, in fact, that author Brian Raftery wrote a whole book about it. Along with The Matrix, you’ve got The Sixth Sense, Being John Malkovich, Magnolia, Eyes Wide Shut, Fight Club and so many more. But what about the films that slipped through the cracks? For all of the much-lauded innovation of 1999, there were still high-concept programmers and traditional weepies at your local multiplex—and even those had far more ambition than you remember.
The only one I have seen is Bicentennial Man and I did enjoy that a lot. Might have to check out a few of the others at some point.