How the mighty have fallen(?)

THE RINGER'S PARTICIPATION TROPHY FOR 1999'S AMERICAN BEAUTY; "FEW BEST PICTURE WINNERS OF THE PAST FEW DECADES HAVE AGED AS POORLY AS THIS ONE—EVEN AT THE TIME IT FELT LIKE A SUBPAR REPRESENTATIVE FOR SUCH AN INVENTIVE YEAR IN AMERICAN FILM. BUT, FOR BETTER OR WORSE, THIS ROSE-PETAL-STREWN EXPLORATION OF SUBURBAN AMERICAN MALAISE HAS MADE AN INDELIBLE MARK ON POP CULTURE.*; YIKES