Annual Top Tens: 1990s (grouped by year of premiere; very much a work in progress)

1999

EXISTENZ (David Cronenberg)
FOREVER MINE (Paul Schrader)
KIKUJIRO (Takeshi Kitano)
THE WIND WILL CARRY US (Abbas Kiarostami)
GEMINI (Shinya Tsukamoto)
THE LIMEY (Steven Soderbergh)
BEAU TRAVAIL (Claire Denis)
PEPPERMINT CANDY (Lee Chang-dong)
POLA X (Leos Carax)
TRUE CRIME (Clint Eastwood)

Moonlight Whispers (Akihiko Shiota); The Colour of Lies (Claude Chabrol); Audition (Takashi Miike); The Mission (Johnnie To); Charisma (Kiyoshi Kurosawa).

1998

SECRET DEFENSE (Jacques Rivette)
FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
THE HOLE (Tsai Ming-liang)
SNAKE EYES (Brian De Palma)
AN AUTUMN TALE (Eric Rohmer)
THE THIN RED LINE (Terrence Malick)
ANDROMEDIA (Takashi Miike)
NEW ROSE HOTEL (Abel Ferrara)
VAMPIRES (John Carpenter)
THE POWER OF KANGWON PROVINCE (Hong Sang-soo)

Bullet Ballet (Shinya Tsukamoto); The Sex Thief (Christian Petzold); Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh); Life on Earth (Abderrahmane Sissako); After Life (Hirokazu Kore-eda).

1997

THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK (Steven Spielberg)
CURE (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
CAREER GIRLS (Mike Leigh)
TITANIC (James Cameron)
STARSHIP TROOPERS (Paul Verhoeven)
FULL ALERT (Ringo Lam)
MADE IN HONG KONG (Fruit Chan)
THE BLACKOUT (Abel Ferrara)
PRINCESS MONONOKE (Hayao Miyazaki)
HANA-BI (Takeshi Kitano)

Face-Off (John Woo); Brother (Aleksei Balabanov); Green Fish (Lee Chang-dong); Rien ne va plus (Claude Chabrol); Same Old Song (Alain Resnais).

1996

CRASH (David Cronenberg)
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE (Brian De Palma)
GOODBYE SOUTH, GOODBYE (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
PARTY (Manoel de Oliveira)
SECRETS & LIES (Mike Leigh)
PONETTE (Jacques Doillon)
LAST MAN STANDING (Walter Hill)
KIDS RETURN (Takeshi Kitano)
CUBA LIBRE (Christian Petzold)
NENETTE ET BONI (Claire Denis)

La Promesse (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne); Escape From L.A. (John Carpenter); Helpless (Shinji Aoyama); Broken Arrow (John Woo); Two Punks (Shinji Aoyama).

1995

THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY (Clint Eastwood)
LA CEREMONIE (Claude Chabrol)
HEAT (Michael Mann)
THE MANGLER (Tobe Hooper)
FALLEN ANGELS (Wong Kar-wai)
LE GARÇU (Maurice Pialat)
TOKYO FIST (Shinya Tsukamoto)
WHISPER OF THE HEART (Yoshifumi Kondo)
SHOWGIRLS (Paul Verhoeven)
MY SISTER'S GOOD FORTUNE (Angela Schanelec)

Loving You (Johnnie To); Casino (Martin Scorsese); Good Men, Good Women (Hou Hsiao-hsien); Maborosi (Hirokazu Kore-eda); The Addiction (Abel Ferrara).

1994

VIVE L'AMOUR (Tsai Ming-liang)
THE INVINCIBLES (Dominik Graf)
U.S. GO HOME (Claire Denis)
CHUNGKING EXPRESS (Wong Kar-wai)
L'ENFER (Claude Chabrol)
IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS (John Carpenter)
NEW NIGHTMARE (Wes Craven)
LITTLE ODESSA (James Gray)
DUMB AND DUMBER (Bobby & Peter Farrelly)
GETTING ANY? (Takeshi Kitano)

Witch Hunt (Paul Schrader); Speed (Jan de Bont); Satantango (Bela Tarr).

1993

CARLITO'S WAY (Brian De Palma)
M BUTTERFLY (David Cronenberg)
SONATINE (Takeshi Kitano)
THE PUPPETMASTER (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
NAKED (Mike Leigh)
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (Martin Scorsese)
A PERFECT WORLD (Clint Eastwood)
BODY SNATCHERS (Abel Ferrara)
GROUNDHOG DAY (Harold Ramis)
GREEN SNAKE (Tsui Hark)

Dangerous Game (Abel Ferrara); Geronimo: An American Legend (Walter Hill); Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg); Smoking / No Smoking (Alain Resnais); Hard Target (John Woo).

1992

TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (David Lynch)
LIGHT SLEEPER (Paul Schrader)
UNFORGIVEN (Clint Eastwood)
DRACULA (Francis Ford Coppola)
LIFE, AND NOTHING MORE (Abbas Kiarostami)
FULL CONTACT (Ringo Lam)
MEMOIRS OF AN INVISIBLE MAN (John Carpenter)
THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS (Michael Mann)
TRESPASS (Walter Hill)
TETSUO II: THE BODY HAMMER (Shinya Tsukamoto)

Raising Cain (Brian De Palma); Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven); Porco Rosso (Hayao Miyazaki); The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies); Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara); Hard Boiled (John Woo).

1991

A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Edward Yang)
VAN GOGH (Maurice Pialat)
A SCENE AT THE SEA (Takeshi Kitano)
ONLY YESTERDAY (Isao Takahata)
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (Jonathan Demme)
THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
MADAME BOVARY (Claude Chabrol)
CAPE FEAR (Martin Scorsese)
THREE DAYS (Sharunas Bartas)
NAKED LUNCH (David Cronenberg)

Kafka (Steven Soderbergh); Barton Fink (Joel & Ethan Coen).

1990

SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION (Tobe Hooper)
THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS (Paul Schrader)
LIFE IS SWEET (Mike Leigh)
A TALE OF SPRINGTIME (Eric Rohmer)
KING OF NEW YORK (Abel Ferrara)
I'M DANGEROUS TONIGHT (Tobe Hooper)
TOTAL RECALL (Paul Verhoeven)
DESPERATE HOURS (Michael Cimino)
GOODFELLAS (Martin Scorsese)
WHITE HUNTER BLACK HEART (Clint Eastwood)

Wild At Heart (David Lynch); Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami); Boiling Point (Takeshi Kitano); The Bonfire of The Vanities (Brian De Palma); Another 48 Hrs. (Walter Hill).