The Silence of the Lambs  With a then-unprecedented budget of over $100 million and cutting-edge visual effects courtesy of Industrial Light & Magic,

Goodfellas  By 1990, American cinema stood at a point of transition.  The high-concept blockbuster dominance of the 1980s had not yet fully receded,

Edward Scissorhands The dawn of the blockbuster era began not with a bang, but with a single, thunderous opening crawl, and it was

Die Hard  If the films of 1987 embodied a clash of cynicism and sincerity, then the films of 1988 decisively tipped the scales

The Princess Bride As the 1980s drew to a close, Hollywood found itself at a crossroads, yet rather than choose a singular path,