Christopher Nolan's intricately plotted film noir "Memento" won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award.
The Blue Gardenia (1953), featuring Anne Baxter as a woman accused of murdering a lecher (Raymond Burr), was a neatly plotted film noir, but it caused much less of a stir than Lang's other film of 1953, The Big Heat.
Taking the plot of Footloose and giving it a sci-fi spin, this bizarrely plotted film takes place in a dystopian future where battle-dancing is illegal because the chief of police's son was killed in a dance battle.
So there is politics underlying every aspect of this funny, warm-hearted, deftly plotted film, and we fervently wish for the caper planned by this endearing quartet to succeed.
In Castellari's coarse, clumsily plotted film, a bunch of American misfits on their way to a military prison in France some weeks after D-Day escape from their guards.
The 90-minute, thinly plotted film, released in time for Christmas 2001, was almost an infomercial for the resort.
French then adds that "Bandslam is a witty, touching, cleverly plotted film with excellent music".
Verbinski's 2002 remake, on the other hand, was a slow, carefully plotted film that made the condition of being haunted a deeply personal experience.
But as this roughly paced, sometimes jaggedly plotted film moves forward, we begin to see Greenberg for what he is: a miserable, tortured human being who can't seem to stop broadcasting his pain to others.
Reflection is even more urgent when we have high-brow publications like The New Yorker writing of Abrams' poorly plotted film, "It's so adroitly wrought that lovers of the original may not even notice the skill".
