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Thrillers Part 1 – The Masterpieces

The first tier of the thriller ranking. Hitchcock, Melville, Kubrick, Carpenter, Mann and Demme, and twenty films that established what the form could do.

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Action Films Part 6 – The Dependable

The sixth tier of the action ranking. Carpenter, Romero, Singleton and the Wachowskis, plus the video game adaptations that worked and the disaster films of 1996 and 1997.

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The Greatest Creature Features

Every creature feature reviewed on this site, ranked. Universal's monsters, Harryhausen's models, Rob Bottin's practical work on The Thing, and the films that understood the thing in the dark is worse than the thing on screen.

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The Greatest Ray Harryhausen Films

Every Ray Harryhausen film reviewed on this site, ranked. The skeleton duel, the cyclops, the Medusa and the giant creatures that an entire generation of directors grew up wanting to make.

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The Greatest Medieval Films

Every medieval film reviewed on this site, ranked. Arthur, Becket, Bergman, Boorman and the Pythons, plus the crusader epic that exists in two completely different cuts.

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The Greatest Independent Films

Every independent film reviewed on this site, ranked. Seven debuts, four Lynch pictures, the two Anderson brothers of American cinema, and the horror revival that came out of the same funding model.

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The Greatest Film Noir

Every film noir reviewed on this site, ranked. Huston, Wilder, Reed, Polanski and Hanson, plus the neo-noir and science fiction descendants that kept the form alive after the studios abandoned it.

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Thrillers Part 5 – The Solid Craft

The fifth tier of the thriller ranking. De Palma, Verhoeven, Frankenheimer, Spielberg and Cronenberg, plus the debut features that cost less than a single day of a studio shoot.

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The Greatest Foreign Language Films

Every foreign language film reviewed on this site, ranked. Soviet montage, Italian neorealism, Bergman, Kurosawa, the French New Wave, Hong Kong action and the Iranian films that work under restriction.

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Remakes, Ranked

Every remake and side-by-side contrast reviewed on this site, ranked. The ones that justified themselves, the ones that repeated the plot and lost the point, and the studio programme built on strip-mining a back catalogue.

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The Greatest Coming of Age Films

Every coming of age film reviewed on this site, ranked. Truffaut, Hughes, Crowe, Coppola and Gerwig, plus the horror films that use adolescence as the actual subject.

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The Greatest Biopics and True Stories

Every biopic and true story reviewed on this site, ranked. Space procedure, the Manhattan Project, a surgeon's uncredited assistant, four hours of Gettysburg, and the worst-reviewed biopic of the century.

Great Films Teach Great Writing

The best films work because their craft holds up, and that same eye goes into every book Richard Lowe writes. He has authored 113+ books and ghostwritten 54+ more across fiction, memoir, and nonfiction. If you want a book that respects the reader the way these films respect the viewer, start with a conversation.

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