4) The Shawshank Redemption

3) Pulp Fiction

2) Silence of the Lambs

1) Goodfellas

First of all, thanks to everyone who gave us such good honorable mentions, including Fargo, Saving Private Ryan, L.A. Confidential, The Unforgiven, Trois Couleurs: Blue, White, Red, Se7en, The Usual Suspects, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, Titanic, Braveheart, American Beauty, The Sixth Sense, Being John Malkovich, Groundhog Day, Trainspotting, Twelve Monkeys, Run Lola Run, Toy Story, The Killer, Terminator 2, and Last of the Mohicans.

That's quite a list.

I suppose you could put these in almost any order, really. They're all very different films and each of them represents the very best of their genre. Is there a better mob movie than Goodfellas? Because I don't think The Godfather is better. It's longer, it's older, it's more epic perhaps, but there's nothing wrong with Goodfellas. I think head to head, I give it to Goodfellas. I really do.

Silence of the Lambs is possibly the best procedural of its generation and it has one of the greatest villains in movie history.

Pulp Fiction changed, well, everything.

Shawshank is a beautiful piece of work, as well-written as any movie of the decade and with so many great scenes and two hall of fame performances by Robbins and Freeman.

Schindler's List may seem obligatory, but there's never been another movie quite like it. For 50 years, filmmakers struggled to find the right way to tell the Holocaust story, until finally, somebody did. The degree of difficulty for this film is the highest of anything from the 1990s because of the subject matter, and there are only a handful of movies that could be this brave and this strong artistically.