9 Years Later, A Divisive Director Finally Gets Back to His Spy Thriller Roots

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Director Matthew Vaughn is all but synonymous with the punchy, stylized, and oft-irreverent espionage thrillers of the 2010s. For all his success with the genre, though, he’s certainly had just as many misses. Kingsman: The Secret Service was fantastic; its sequel, The Golden Circle, and WWI-era prequel, The King’s Man, however, were something else entirely (bad).