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When Good Directors Make Bad Movies

Sometimes I purposefully don't watch bad films, but other times I can't avoid it. This is a list of the worst movies by directors that I still really like and have made other great pictures. Yes, if a bad movie isn't here, either I think that director is always bad or I just haven't seen it yet. (Or, they already made one worse.) Give me time. It's all pretty arbitrary. You could argue some of these directors aren't very good anyway, but you know that I always try to find the good in films so you're welcome to that opinion.

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  • Hillbilly Elegy
  • Jewtopia
  • The Electric State
  • Amsterdam
  • Elizabeth: A Portrait in Part(s)
  • The Woman in the Window
  • Coming 2 America
  • Mulan
  • Cats
  • Gemini Man
  • Where'd You Go, Bernadette
  • Welcome to Marwen
  • Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
  • Tulip Fever
  • Eat Pray Love
  • Knowing
  • Art School Confidential
  • Black Moon
  • December 7th
  • A House of Dynamite
  • I Wanna Dance with Somebody
  • Clerks III
  • Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
  • The Bubble
  • Eternals
  • The Last Shift
  • The Goldfinch
  • Deion's Double Play
  • The Death & Life of John F. Donovan
  • Kingsman: The Golden Circle
  • Downsizing
  • Mary Shelley
  • The Great Wall
  • Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
  • Aloha
  • Jupiter Ascending
  • Exodus: Gods and Kings
  • The Watch
  • Marion Jones: Press Pause
  • The Happening
  • Apocalypto
  • A Hole in My Heart
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • In the Cut
  • What Women Want
  • Bicentennial Man
  • Almost Heroes
  • Batman & Robin
  • Trial and Error
  • Showgirls
  • Junior
  • North
  • Ishtar
  • Dune
  • Boxcar Bertha
  • Coogan's Bluff
  • All These Women
  • Across the Wide Missouri
  • Champagne
  • Avatar: Fire and Ash
  • Ballad of a Small Player
  • Jurassic World Rebirth
  • Emilia Pérez
  • Landscape with Invisible Hand
  • Babylon
  • Empire of Light
  • Spiderhead
  • Shark
  • Return to Space
  • A Journal for Jordan
  • The Midnight Sky
  • The Life and Trials of Oscar Pistorius
  • The Old Guard
  • Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
  • Our Friend
  • The Class That Saved Coach K
  • The Lion King
  • Aladdin
  • Yesterday
  • Apostle
  • High Life
  • Kursk
  • Suspiria
  • The Happytime Murders
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • The 15:17 to Paris
  • Loving Pablo
  • The Glass Castle
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
  • Song to Song
  • Live by Night
  • Passengers
  • Storks
  • Florence Foster Jenkins
  • Pelé: Birth of a Legend
  • Vacation
  • Paper Towns
  • Love
  • Tomorrowland
  • The November Man