Catch up on 1999 Week and the rest of our favorite recent stories

By The A.V. Club | August 10, 2019 | 11:00am

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Catch up on 1999 Week and the rest of our favorite recent stories

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Here’s a compilation of our favorite features published this week. Be sure to follow along with our TV recaps and check out all our recent reviews.

Monday

It’s 1999 Week here at The A.V. Club, so let’s see how deep the rabbit hole goes
Hey now, they’re all stars: Sigur Rós, MF Doom, Le Tigre, and other under-heard hits of 1999
Why isn’t Hobbs & Shaw more fun?
Amazon’s The Boys illustrates the limitations of satirizing superheroes outside the comics page

Tuesday

1999 was Cash Money’s turn to shine
The best movies of 1999

Wednesday

What films deserved to make our “best of 1999” list?
The best and worst of Magnolia’s multiple melodramas

Thursday

Star Wars v. Matrix, Santana v. Smash Mouth, and Y2K panic: 21 windows into 1999
How American Beauty lost the title of 1999’s best movie
Power chords and Pennywise: 90 minutes of 1999’s best pop punk

Friday

2001: A Space Odyssey pushed blockbuster cinema to a new plane of star-child brilliance
In 1999, video game writing hit a high-water mark
Dedication, animation, and Passions: 24 hours of 1999 TV
5 new releases we love: Drake issues an all-timer, Marika Hackman keeps it raw, and more

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