10 Movies That Got Better YEARS Later
1. American Graffiti
And finally we have 1973's American Graffiti, the second film helmed by George Lucas and his only self-directed project that wasn't a sci-fi movie.
Rather, American Graffiti is a coming-of-age comedy set in 1960s California, focusing on a group of teenagers and their shenanigans over the course of a single night.
Though extremely well-received at the time of its release, even landing Lucas his first of two Best Director Oscar nominations, there's an argument to be made that American Graffiti has only become an even better movie with age.
In a 2022 review of the film, none other than Quentin Tarantino very persuasively argued that, like many movies rooted in nostalgia for a bygone era, Lucas' film has actually only gotten better as more time has passed from its 1973 release.
Basically, with each passing year the era it depicts feels ever more dreamlike and unknowable to most of the people watching - namely those who weren't alive in the 1960s, who on a long enough timeline will eventually be everyone.