Worst Movies Made by Great Directors, According to Critics

• Even some of the most admired and iconic directors have made at least one critically reviled film.
• Insider turned to Rotten Tomatoes to find the worst-reviewed movies of 52 acclaimed filmmakers.
• The latest is Antoine Fuqua’s “Infinite,” which was released this year on Paramount+.

Most of the greatest film directors in history have swung and missed on occasion. 

Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, and numerous other critically acclaimed directors have directed at least one movie that critics tore apart. 

For this list, we chose 52 directors who have largely been praised by critics as masters of their craft, and we turned to the reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes to find out which of the films they’ve directed was the most critically panned.

We excluded a number of great directors who did not have a film in their catalog that they directed with a critic score under 60%. Stanley Kubrick, for instance, is not on this list, as his “worst” film, “Eyes Wide Shut,” has a 76% “Fresh” rating on the site. Another example is Alejandro G. Iñárritu, whose lowest-rated film is “Biutiful” at 66%.

John Lynch contributed to an earlier version of this post. 

Here are the 52 worst movies made by iconic directors, ordered from the (relative) best to worst, according to their critic scores: