How could you choose “American Beauty” over 400 better films?

“American Beauty” won big at the Oscars, winning all the major awards. For many film critics today, this is an unforgivable mistake – because there were so many other great films in 1999.

It may come as a surprise to those who lived through it, but the year 1999 is now considered by film experts to be one of the greatest years in Hollywood history. It’s the year that gave us Fight Club, Magnolia, The Matrix, Election, Everything Routine, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, The Blair Witch Project, Boys Don ‘t Cry”, “The Sixth Sense”,…

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