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.
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CrimeCrime 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.
CrimeCrime 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.
CrimeCrime 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.
CrimeCrime 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.
CrimeCrime 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.
CrimeCrime Films Part 7 – The Failures
The bottom of the crime ranking. The adaptations that softened their source, the exploitation cycle at its least defensible, and the films that needed somebody to say no.
Fiction WritingHorror Films Part 3 – The Excellent
The third tier of the horror ranking. Craven, Peele, Eggers, Aster and Wright, plus the found-footage and folk horror that reset the form.
Fiction WritingHorror Films Part 5 – The Solid Craft
The fifth tier of the horror ranking. Cameron, Romero, Miike, Coppola and Carpenter, plus the vampire cycle of the late eighties.
Fiction WritingHorror Films Part 6 – The Dependable
The sixth tier of the horror ranking. Park, Glazer, Kent, Eggers and Wan, plus the vampire films that rebuilt the rules from scratch.
Fiction WritingHorror Films Part 7 – The Watchable
The seventh tier of the horror ranking. Carpenter, Fulci, Romero and Wan, plus the vampire films that treated hunting as a trade.
Fiction WritingHorror Films Part 8 – The Flawed
The eighth tier of the horror ranking. The Hammer and seventies vampire cycle, plus the films that took the premise somewhere domestic.