Takal coaxes melodrama from first-person naturalism and smartly blends the allure of genre with do-it-yourself intimacy.

NEWYORKER: Green

You can't beef about the car's engine, the Detroit-built Multiair, which coaxes 101 horsepower out of 1.4 liters of naturally aspirated displacement.

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Reeling from recent heartbreak and stuck in religious-abstinent mode, Ted grudgingly goes out on the town with his swinging cousin, who comically coaxes him back into action.

NEWYORKER: Barcelona

Who coaxes people into showing up to the reunion?

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The title character, Sam (Andrew Dickler), a bushy-bearded horticulturist, quietly overbearing cynic, and multitalented funster, is about to marry the perky, more conventional Steph (Marguerite Moreau), who gets curious about his estranged younger brother, Tom (Ben York Jones), whom she coaxes to their house for the wedding weekend.

NEWYORKER: Douchebag