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1992

Showing 156 works across all media from 1992

Western

Unforgiven

Directed by Clint Eastwood
1992

Eastwood spent thirty years building the myth this film takes apart: no western has been harder on the pleasure of violence, or on the men who deal it out.

★ 8.7
NightswimmingR.E.M.
Alternative rock · Rock

Nightswimming

R.E.M.
1992 · From Automatic for the People

Mills cut the piano at Criteria on the instrument heard on "Layla," and John Paul Jones arranged the strings.

★ 7.2
Film · Courtroom drama (film) · Drama (film) · Courtroom drama · Drama

Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know; that Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall. You need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it!

Col. Nathan R. Jessep
A Few Good Men · 1992
★ 7.1
Biographical drama · Drama

Malcolm X

Directed by Spike Lee
1992

Denzel Washington disappears so completely that people forget they are watching a performance: Lee fought the studio for the length, the budget and the ending he wanted.

★ 6.9
Everybody HurtsR.E.M.
Alternative rock · Rock

Everybody Hurts

R.E.M.
1992 · From Automatic for the People

Berry wrote most of it over a drum machine, John Paul Jones scored the strings, and the words target teenagers.

★ 6.9
Grunge · Rock

Would

Alice in Chains
1992 · From Dirt

Cantrell wrote it for the Singles soundtrack while grieving Andrew Wood; Starr's bass line and two voices doing the mourning.

★ 6.9
Folk rock · Rock

Harvest Moon

Neil Young
1992 · From Harvest Moon

Tinnitus from the Ragged Glory tour pushed Young back to acoustic guitars, and Ronstadt shadows him line for line.

★ 6.8
Fiction · Western

All the Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthy
1992 · 302 pages

Sixteen years old and landless, John Grady Cole rides into Mexico in 1949 and finds work breaking horses on a great hacienda. McCarthy writes horses and hard country better than any American novelist.

★ 6.8
Drama

Glengarry Glen Ross

Directed by James Foley
1992

The best-acted film about work ever made: Mamet's salesmen speak in a rhythm nobody actually uses, and an ensemble of stars took deep pay cuts for the chance to say the lines.

★ 6.7
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Hip hop

Jump Around

House of Pain
1992

Cypress Hill could not write to Muggs's beat and Ice Cube passed on it; it reached number three anyway.

★ 6.6
Historical epic · Epic

The Last of the Mohicans

Directed by Michael Mann
1992

Michael Mann's most romantic film ends with twelve near-wordless minutes carried entirely by the score: Daniel Day-Lewis learned to live off the land for it, and the frontier looks genuinely unmapped.

★ 6.4
Fiction · Campus novel

The Secret History

Donna Tartt
1992 · 557 pages

At a Vermont college a transfer student joins five classics majors and their charismatic tutor, then learns their rite to Dionysus left a farmer dead. Dark academia has been rewriting it since.

★ 6.4
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