Magnolia to The Matrix: was 1999 the greatest year in modern cinema?

It was the year that brought us a feast of multiplex and arthouse pleasures and two decades on, its impact can still be felt in Hollywood

“I don’t know the future,” shrugged Neo in 1999’s The Matrix. “I came here to tell you how it’s going to begin.” With him, on-screen and off, as The Matrix plunged audiences into the future of cinema, which 20 years later, looks like the Wachowskis’ wildest dreams: 1s and 0s everywhere and Keanu Reeves still kicking ass.

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