![Winona Ryder smiles turns to her left and smiles at the camera while wearing a satiny green Victorian era dress with a small matching hat.](https://jerz.us/images/289t.jpg)
1. Bram Stoker’s Dracula – Just an all time favorite of mine for so many reasons. The performances are bonkers. I wrote before that a great movie maker turned a couple of maniacs loose in their prime maniac years and it made for a brilliantly theatrical version of this story.
2. Heathers – The dialog doesn’t hold up as well as I’d hoped, but this was par for the course in the late 80s. I found Christian Slater more annoying this time than in the past. But Winona Ryder can’t miss. This still resonates as a real raw look at what does happen to some people in high school.
3. Reality Bites – When I saw this the first time, I wasn’t yet out of college, so it was all this stuff happening to older people. This time, it hit a little differently. Ethan Hawke’s character is still a total late-80s/early-90s dick to Winona Ryder’s character, and she still does the thing where he is eventually rewarded.
4. Night on Earth – My first Jarmusch, and there will be plenty more. This anthology about interactions in five different cities involving cab drivers at the same time is charming, a little gut-wrenching, and overall really entertaining.
5. Autumn in New York – This was bad because it was about a man who was so cool his absolute awfulness was never actually consequential to him.
6. Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael – Nothing groundbreaking, but an entertaining entry into the Winona Ryder canon.
- Mermaids
Autumn in New York- The Age of Innocence
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael- The Crucible
Night on Earth