Release Year: 1993
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The Nightmare Before Christmas
There’s a reason The Nightmare Before Christmas keeps resurfacing in conversations about the best animation films of its era: it simply refuses to be dated. At its core, the plot goes like this: Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town,…
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Groundhog Day
Not every comedy movie needs to reinvent the wheel, but Groundhog Day manages to feel fresh anyway, thanks largely to Harold Ramis’s confident direction. Even the marketing knew what it had: the tagline “He’s having the worst day of his life… Over and over again.” sets the mood before a single frame plays. Strip away…
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Schindler’s List
Schindler’s List arrived in 1993 with a simple pitch and a director, Steven Spielberg, who clearly had bigger ambitions for the drama genre than the logline suggested. “Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.” That’s the line the studio chose to sell the film, and it doesn’t oversell it by much. At its core,…