Meanwhile, the industry establishment responded to the sudden influx of new talent by entrusting its biggest tentpoles to the idiosyncratic likes of Steven Spielberg, Kathryn Bigelow, Paul Verhoeven, John Woo, the Wachowskis, and Brian De Palma, resulting in franchises that felt more invented than recycled, even when they were exactly that. Young and exciting directors, many of whom are now major auteurs and perennial IndieWire favorites, were given the resources to make multiple films - some of them on massive scales. The ’90s began with a revolt against the kind of bland Hollywood product that people might kill to see in theaters today, creaking open a small window of time in which a more commercially viable American independent cinema began seeping into mainstream fare.

Nowhere is that phenomenon more obvious or explicable than it is at the movies. While the ‘90s may still be linked with a wide variety of dubious holdovers - including curious slang, questionable fashion choices, and sinister political agendas - many of the decade’s cultural contributions have cast an outsized shadow on the first stretch of the 21st century.

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