01) The Insider (Michael Mann)
02) Magnolia (P.T. Anderson)
03) Fight Club (David Fincher)
04) Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
05) Three Kings (David O. Russell)
06) The Matrix (Andy and Larry Wachowski)
07) The Ninth Gate (Roman Polanski)
08) The Iron Giant (Brad Bird)
09) Office Space (Mike Judge)
10) One Day In September (Kevin Macdonald)

Honorable Mention: The Straight Story (David Lynch), The End of the Affair (Neil Jordan), Boys Don’t Cry (Kimberly Peirce), The Talented Mr. Ripley (Anthony Minghella), Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze), Election (Alexander Payne), Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter), The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan), Any Given Sunday (Oliver Stone), Go (Doug Liman), Sleepy Hollow (Tim Burton), Mumford (Lawrence Kasdan), Sweet and Lowdown (Woody Allen), The Limey (Steven Soderbergh), eXistenz (David Cronenberg), American Pie (Paul Weitz), American Beauty (Sam Mendes)

Undiscovered: Beau Travail (Claire Denis), Bringing Out the Dead (Martin Scorsese), The Virgin Suicides (Sophia Coppola), Felicia’s Journey (Atom Egoyan), The Cider House Rules (Lasse Hallstrom), October Sky (Joe Johnston), Plunkett & Macleane (Jake Scott), Titus (Julie Taymor), Rosetta (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne), All About My Mother (Pedro Almodovar), The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami), Audition (Takashi Miike), Attack the Gas Station! (Sang-Jin Kim)

Worst of 1999:
01) Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (George Lucas)
02) Man on the Moon (Milos Forman)
03) Body Shots (Michael Cristofer)
04) End of Days (Peter Hyams)
05) The Blair Witch Project (Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez)
06) Stigmata (Rupert Wainwright)
07) The Messenger (Luc Besson)
08) The Haunting (Jan de Bont)
09) 200 Cigarettes (Risa Bramon Garcia)
10) 8MM (Joel Schumacher)

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