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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Fiction WritingThrillers 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.
Fiction WritingThrillers 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.
Fiction WritingThrillers 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.
Fiction WritingThrillers 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.
Fiction WritingThrillers 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.
Fiction WritingAction 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.
Fiction WritingAction 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.
Fiction WritingAction 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.
Fiction WritingAction 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.
Fiction WritingAction 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.
Fiction WritingAction 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.