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Crime Films Part 6 – The Watchable

The sixth tier of the crime ranking. The eighties star vehicles, the police procedurals that found a neighborhood, and the television that outlasted its own format.

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Crime Films Part 5 – The Solid Craft

The fifth tier of the crime ranking. Ritchie, Cronenberg, Affleck and the Coens, plus the heist pictures that turned real cases into features.

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Crime Films Part 4 – The Very Good

The fourth tier of the crime ranking. Soderbergh, Scorsese, De Palma and Ferrara, plus the pre-Code gangster pictures and the television that outgrew the form.

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Crime Films Part 3 – The Excellent

The third tier of the crime ranking. Scorsese, Lumet, Fincher and Tarantino, plus the documentary that changed a verdict and the westerns that relocated to cities.

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Crime Films Part 2 – The Near Perfect

The second tier of the crime ranking. The Coens, Hanson, Fincher and Melville, plus the heist films that taught the form its grammar.

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Crime Films Part 1 – The Masterpieces

The top twenty crime films. Lang, Huston, Wilder, Kurosawa, Polanski, Coppola and Scorsese, plus the modern entries that earned their place beside them.

Horror Films Part 1 – The Masterpieces

The top twenty horror films. Whale, Hitchcock, Tourneur, Demme and Aster, plus the creature pictures and the franchises that got their first entry right.

Action Films Part 11 – The Failures

The bottom of the action ranking. The films that failed at every level at once, and the negative ratings that record how far below zero a picture can go.

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Action Films Part 10 – The Poor

The tenth tier of the action ranking. The expensive failures, the franchise entries nobody needed, and the adaptations that had a good design and nothing to put in it.

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Action Films Part 9 – The Mediocre

The ninth tier of the action ranking. Franchise assembly, adaptations that lost the source, and the sequels that demonstrate what the originals were doing.

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Action Films Part 8 – The Flawed

The eighth tier of the action ranking. Franchise machinery, sequels that undo their predecessors, and the remakes that removed the thing worth keeping.

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Action Films Part 7 – The Watchable

The seventh tier of the action ranking. Nolan's trilogy conclusion, the Marvel entries that wobble, and the dystopias whose concepts outrank their execution.

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