"You’ve kept all the receipts and it’s payback time: vengeance is the name of this Showdown’s game. Take justice into your own hands, round up the thirteen assassins and stock the deep-freeze with ice, ’cos the Equalizer wants to serve this dish cold. Whether it happens between nine and five or in the bedroom, revenge is a pan-genre storytelling force—spanning everything from noir to horror, action to comedy, not to mention Bergman—so it shouldn’t take long to draw up a hit list of your ten favorite movies with a vendetta. Carter, Carrie and the Count of Monte Cristo are keeping tabs. the hard candy, we’re taking the low road."