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Coogan’s Bluff

Coogan’s Bluff: Don Siegel makes an efficient, no-frills actioner; thankfully, it’s not very heavy-handed with

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Marvel’s Daredevil – Season 1: Drew Goddard’s series succeeds (mostly, and for what it’s supposed to be) by

Ant-Man: Peyton Reed got stuck with a weak story to tell; while the small scale of the conflict is both

Jurassic World: Colin Trevorrow’s film is a great example of the difference between creating tension and simply having a scary moment;

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Mad Max: Fury Road: George Miller’s film walks a tight rope. By one hand, there is no pretense the story is a complicated one; in fact,

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Avengers: Age of Ultron: Joss Whedon delivers a somewhat peculiar beast: it is entertaining enough, and

Furious 7: it would be overly generous to say that James Wan is telling a good story (as much as it would be naïve to expect it to be one);

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Kingsman: The Secret Service: Matthew Vaughn doesn’t hide the silliness of his story; in fact, he seems to relish it.

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Jupiter Ascending: the Wachowski siblings present a high-concept story that doesn’t make much (or any) sense,