Best. Movie. Year. Ever.

Best. Movie. Year. Ever. argues that 1999 produced an unmatched run of ambitious, genre-bending American films — The Matrix, Fight Club, Magnolia, Election, The Sixth Sense, Being John Malkovich, Office Space, and many more — all released within twelve months of each other. Brian Raftery interviews the directors, writers, and studio executives behind these films to reconstruct how a brief window of creative risk-taking produced such an unusual concentration of era-defining movies.

The book moves chronologically through the year's releases, using each film as an entry point into the shifting anxieties and aesthetics of Hollywood at the turn of the millennium.