A multimedia Culture desk series, “Class of 1999,” revisits a group of mold-breaking, star-studded films released that year. By Sarah Bahr Sarah Bahr was 3 years old in 1999 and is now planning an ...

Film critics and movie buffs alike consider 1999 to be a landmark year for cinema. Taking a look back at the many groundbreaking and risk-taking movies released that year, it’s not hard to see why.

For a neck-snapping, class-cutting, shit-talking amalgam of RoboCop, Escape From New York and The Outsiders, you can’t do better than Class of 1999. This quasi-sequel to the more straight-ahead ...