Meticulously crafted, with exceptionally memorable performances delivered by everyone, McQueen included—but this acts as a punctuation mark on the realization that they’re all maybe a bit too good for this material.

Equal parts sloppy and fascinating, Society is a satire that fails to reach the sublime heights of something like Starship Troopers, but it’s so unique that I don’t really mind the flaws very much. It’s also refreshing to see a movie whose best third by far is the last one—how often does that happen?

It's as good an action/sci-fi movie as has ever been made, and on top of it, it's a subversive, complex, yet highly entertaining examination of the cost of social order. It has held up beautifully over the past 15 years, and in retrospect, it's one of the best movies of the 1990s.