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Action Films Part 5 – The Solid Craft

The fifth tier of the action ranking. Vaughn, Kosinski, Evans and Mangold, plus the Marvel entries that work and the remakes that understood which parts were load-bearing.

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Action Films Part 4 – The Very Good

The fourth tier of the action ranking. Cameron, Verhoeven, Frankenheimer, Russell and Costner, plus the superhero films that built a franchise and the sequels that knew what they could not be.

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Action Films Part 3 – The Excellent

The third tier of the action ranking. The Wachowskis, Miller, Scott, Favreau and McTiernan, plus the small films that beat their budgets and the franchise entries that earned their place.

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Action Films Part 2 – The Near Perfect

The second tier. Nolan, Peckinpah, Carpenter, Milius, Verhoeven and Chan, plus the franchises that ran exactly as long as they had ideas.

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Action Films Part 1 – The Masterpieces

The first tier of the action ranking. Kurosawa, Spielberg, Woo, Cameron, Hill and Wright, and twenty films that established what the form could do.

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Thrillers Part 9 – The Failures

The bottom of the thriller ranking. Sequels that removed the premise, adaptations that lost the point, and two technically accomplished films that are the most instructive failures on the whole list.

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Thrillers Part 8 – The Flawed

The eighth tier of the thriller ranking. Good premises executed badly, adaptations that kept the title and threw away the method, and the sequels nobody asked for.

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Thrillers Part 7 – The Watchable

The seventh tier of the thriller ranking. Cronenberg, Costa-Gavras, Garland and Wan, plus the sequels and adaptations that had a better idea than they knew what to do with.

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Thrillers Part 6 – The Dependable

The sixth tier of the thriller ranking. Cuarón, Corbijn, Stahelski and Sturges, plus the early-eighties procedurals and one of the most committed silly films ever made.

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Thrillers Part 4 – The Very Good

The fourth tier of the thriller ranking. Bong, Peele, Villeneuve, Fincher and Pakula, plus the small-budget science fiction and the sequels that knew what they were.

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Thrillers Part 3 – The Excellent

The third tier of the thriller ranking. Reiner, Fincher, Gilliam, Woo, Mann, Scorsese and Tarantino, plus the small films that beat their own budgets.

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Thrillers Part 2 – The Near Perfect

The second tier. Lynch, Fincher, Park Chan-wook, Nolan and Affleck, plus the television pilots that build a whole series in one hour.

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