Film Excess - Free Ukraine - Stop Putin - End the war NOW!!: 1992 in films

The Top 10 of the Year

1. Batman Returns - Tim Burton + Best Action Movie of the Year + Best American Movie of the Year + Best Superhero Movie of the Year + Most Deserved Hit of the Year

2. Braindead/Dead Alive - Peter Jackson + Best Gore Movie of the Year + Best New Zealander Movie of the Year + Best Zombie Movie of the Year

3. Bad Lieutenant - Abel Ferrara + Breakthrough of the Year, Male: Harvey Keitel + Best Cop Movie of the Year + Best New York Movie of the Year + Best Religious Movie of the Year

4. Candyman - Bernard Rose + Best Chicago Movie of the Year + Best Horror Movie of the Year + Best Villain of the Year: Tony Todd as Candyman + Breakthrough of the Year, Female: Virginia Madsen

5. Belle Epoque - Fernando Trueba + Best Erotic Movie of the Year + Best Romcom of the Year + Best Spanish Movie of the Year

6. Glengarry Glen Ross - James Foley + Best Ensemble of the Year: Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Ed Harris, Alan Arkin, Kevin Spacey, Jonathan Pryce

7. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York - Chris Columbus + Best Christmas Movie of the Year + Best Comedy of the Year + Best $ Return of the Year: 12.81 times the cost + Best Family Movie of the Year + Best Mega-hit Movie of the Year + Most Profitable Movie of the Year: 115.56 mil. $ range

8. Porco Rosso - Hayao Miyazaki + Best Japanese Movie of the Year

9. Basic Instinct - Paul Verhoeven + Best Thriller of the Year

10. Army of Darkness - Sam Raimi + Best Big Flop Movie of the Year + Best Horror Comedy of the Year + Best Poster of the Year

Other great movies of the year (in alphabetical order):

A Few Good Men - Rob Reiner + Best Courtroom Drama of the Year

The Hand that Rocks the Cradle - Curtis Hanson + Best Psychological Thriller of the Year + Best Revenge Movie of the Year

Other recommendable, good movies of the year (in alphabetical order):

Alien 3 - David Fincher

Christopher Columbus: The Discovery - John Glen + Best Mega-flop Movie of the Year + Career Killer of the Year: John Glen + Most Expensive Flop of the Year: 38.44 mil. $ range + Worst $ Return of the Year: 0.36 times the cost

The Bottom 5 of the Year

1. Godzilla vs. Mothra/ゴジラvsモスラ (Gojira tai Mosura) - Takao Okawara

2. Far and Away - Ron Howard + Most Deserved Flop of the Year + Worst Poster of the Year

3. Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth - Anthony Hickox

4. Bram Stoker's Dracula - Francis Ford Coppola + Most Undeserved Hit of the Year

5. Patriot Games - Phillip Noyce

Other poor, mediocre and/or failed movies of the year (in alphabetical order):

Honeymoon in Vegas - Andrew Bergman + Best Las Vegas Movie of the Year

[20 titles in total]

Notes:

Despite the low title count, 1992 has already produced 2 masterpieces and no grade zero trash at Film Excess's determination so far: The Top 10 list opens with the first of them, Tim Burton's sensational superhero trip to fabulous Gotham City Batman Returns, arguably the best Batman movie of all time. Peter Jackson's blood-gushing zombie fantasy Braindead takes silver, and Abel Ferrara's brazen, grimy New York-set cop redemption drama masterpiece Bad Lieutenant bronze.

The list goes on with Bernard Rose's racial horror Candyman; Fernando Trueba's sensual period romance Belle Epoque; James Foley's ensemble salesman drama Glengarry Glen Ross; Chris Columbus' majorly successful family comedy Home Alone 2: Lost in New York; Hayao Miyazaki's odd, fantastical animation Porco Rosso; Paul Verhoeven's thriller smash Basic Instinct; and with Sam Raimi's special effects bonanza, medieval horror Army of Darkness rounding off the list.

Other remarkable films of the year include Rob Reiner's colloquially quotable courtroom drama A Few Good Men and John Glen's entertaining mega-flop Christopher Columbus: The Discovery.

On the other end of the spectrum, the year's Bottom list holds 5 titles: Takao Okawara's bizarre kaiju offering Godzilla vs. Mothra is the year's worst. Ron Howard's brain-numbing ham sandwich of an epic romance Far and Away takes silver, and Anthony Hickox's satanic effects-hound Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth bronze.

The list continues with Francis Ford Coppola's remarkably popular but not very good Bram Stoker's Dracula, and ends with Phillip Noyce's hardly believable Jack Ryan action hit Patriot Games.

Future updates of the lists will expand the number of reviewed titles.

Biggest flops of the year:

[The loss is based solely on the cost and box office earnings for the films. Marketing costs and additional revenue (home video, TV rights and other auxiliary profits) are not taken into account]