Jackie Brown — IQ Score 163/200

Tarantino's 1997 Elmore Leonard adaptation — his only adapted screenplay — is the entry most critics underrated on release and now read as one of his most disciplined works. Pam Grier's Jackie Brown is rare leading-woman Tarantino work whose intelligence is the actual structural engine.

Robert Forster's Max Cherry renders the romance Tarantino otherwise rarely commits to. The split-perspective money-handoff sequence is one of the cleanest screenplay-structure achievements of the late '90s.