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By that I mean a film that was perhaps packed to the brim with Digital effects or just a film though you were pretty astonished has held up against the power of time, for one reason or another.
Great movies with groundbreaking VFX have all held up pretty well (T2, Jurassic Park, The Matrix) so I'm not really focusing on those kinda releases, since I think we all felt they would hold up. I'm more talking about films that we maybe felt would age like milk upon release, but has instead managed to look contemporary, all these years later.
I'll start with The Mummy (1999). Unlike it's direct sequel, I feel pretty much everything about this action adventure has held up over 20+ years. The VFX are still rock solid, production design is amazing and the cast was just pitch perfect. It's a movie that got lukewarm reviews back in 99 but has only garnered more admiration as time passes.