


The film Big (1988) made a splash with the whimsy of a 13-year-old boy in a grown man’s body. A winner of four Academy Awards, the film The Matrix (1999) offered a groundbreaking dystopian movie-going experience. The film Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (2019) provides a fictional retelling of the time, the place, and an fact-adjacent place of Hollywood in the 1950s and 1960s. The films were reviewed in August, May and November, respectively). (Three of six films rated at 4.25-stars by Matt Lynn Digital included 2019’s Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, 1999’s The Matrix and 1988’s Big. The film Saving Private Ryan (1998) shows a highly realistic depiction of the human cost of war, culminating in the central stories of a group of soldiers tasked with saving one soldier whose brothers died in that same war. The first of six films produced, directed or both for Steven Spielberg happens to be the first of three films starring Tom Hanks in our review this year. Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) offers the colorful language of full-throated criticism of the modern American business culture. The films were reviewed in January, April and July, respectively).įour Academy Awards awaited the film Ordinary People (1980), a sad, moving, and emotionally satisfying film.

(Three films rated at 4.50-stars included 1980’s Ordinary People, 1992’s Glengarry Glenn Ross and 1998’s Saving Private Ryan. This is also the first of six movies reviewed this year associated with space travel. The rating of 4.75-stars reflects the quality in innovation, storytelling, science fiction and genre creation.

Our second best film for the year introduced us to space tourism and a future of what traveling in space might look like in Stanley Kubrick‘s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). ( Matt Lynn Digital reviewed 2001: A Space Odyssey as directed, produced and co-written by Stanley Kubrick. Vertigo is the first of two Alfred Hitchcock movies reviewed this year. Alfred Hitchcock‘s Vertigo (1958) is a film that uses a narrative style mixing in mystery, thriller, romance, and psychological illness to suggest that a character isn’t guilty. We reviewed this film in April).Ītop our list of movies is the one film that received a perfect rating, that of 5-stars on a scale of 1-to-5 stars on the movie rankings list. (The best movie Matt Lynn Digital saw in 2019 was Vertigo as directed by Alfred Hitchcock. We’ll additionally look into the concept of remakes and sequels as a bonus look into the field of movie making. In taking a cinematic look back at the films we reviewed this year, we’ll provide a look into 48 distinct movie. Matt Lynn Digital maintained a strong focus on reviewing movies in 2019.
