Here are Cinephile Corner’s picks for the 10 best movies of 1998, ranked:
10. Ring
Ring is among the most influential movies to ever come out of Japan. Setting aside it’s successful attempt to blend Japanese filmmaking into the mainstream, Hideo Nakata‘s wildly successful 1998 film is one of the horror genre’s most well-regarded releases. It transcended where it came from, becoming an international powerhouse and spawning and English-language remake due to its popularity.
9. You’ve Got Mail
8. Rounders
7. Saving Private Ryan
6. The Truman Show
5. Belly
4. Out of Sight
3. The Big Lebowski
2. Rushmore
Although Wes Anderson’s career starts with Bottle Rocket and the short film that inspired that movie, I don’t think it really takes off into another stratosphere until Rushmore – a breakout hit worth every bit of praise that it gets. It may live a bit in the shadows of a few movies that come after it, but it’s undeniable that the motifs and thematic impulses Wes Anderson begins to lay out here are monumental in the works that would follow.
1. The Thin Red Line
