The 44 worst movies made by iconic directors — from Spielberg to Scorsese

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

For this list, we chose 45 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 with a critic score under 70%. (Stanley Kubrick, for instance, is not on this list, as his "worst" film, "Eyes Wide Shut," has a 74% "Fresh" rating on the site.)

Here are the 44 worst movies made by iconic directors, ordered from the (relative) best to worst, according to their critic scores:

Alejandro G. Iñárritu — "Biutiful" (2010)

Critic score: 65%

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Guillermo del Toro — "Blade II" (2002)

Critic score: 57%

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Sergio Leone — "The Colossus of Rhodes" (1961)

Critic score: 57%

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David Lynch — "Dune" (1984)

Critic score: 56%

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Wes Anderson — "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" (2004)

Critic score: 56%

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Sofia Coppola — "Marie Antoinette" (2006)

Critic score: 56%

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George Lucas — "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace" (1999)

Critic score: 55%

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Joel and Ethan Coen — "The Ladykillers" (2004)

Critic score: 55%

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Werner Herzog — "Invincible" (2002)

Critic score: 54%

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Alexander Payne — "Downsizing" (2017)

Critic score: 51%

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Howard Hawks — "A Song is Born" (1948)

Critic score: 50%

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Jean-Luc Goddard — "Sympathy for the Devil" (1968)

Critic score: 50%

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Richard Linklater — "Bad News Bears" (2005)

Critic score: 48%

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Martin Scorsese — "Boxcar Bertha" (1972)

Critic score: 48%

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David Fincher — "Alien 3" (1992)

Critic score: 46%

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Terrence Malick — "Knight of Cups" (2016)

Critic score: 45%

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Ang Lee — "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" (2016)

Critic score: 45%

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David Cronenberg — "M. Butterfly" (1993)

Critic score: 45%

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Federico Fellini — "La Casanova de Fellini" (1976)

Critic score: 43%

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Mike Nichols — "What Planet Are You From?" (2000)

Critic score: 42%

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Ava DuVernay — "A Wrinkle In Time" (2018)

Critic score: 40%

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Alfonso Cuarón — "Great Expectations" (1998)

Critic score: 38%

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Tim Burton — "Dark Shadows" (2012)

Critic score: 37%

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Kathryn Bigelow — "The Weight of Water" (2001)

Critic score: 35%

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Jonathan Demme — "Last Embrace" (1979)

Critic score: 33%

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Steven Soderbergh — "The Good German" (2007)

Critic score: 32%

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Woody Allen — "Wonder Wheel" (2017)

Critic score: 31%

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Peter Jackson — "The Lovely Bones" (2009)

Critic score: 31%

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Alfred Hitchcock — "Juno and the Paycock" (1930)

Critic score: 27%

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Steven Spielberg — "Hook" (1991)

Critic score: 29%

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Ridley Scott — "A Good Year" (2006)

Critic score: 25%

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Robert Altman — "Ready to Wear" (1994)

Critic score: 25%

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Clint Eastwood — "The 15:17 to Paris" (2018)

Critic score: 25%

What critics said: "A single act of heroism can truly transform a life, but that action does not necessarily make for a transformative motion picture."

Roman Polanski — "Diary of Forbidden Dreams" (1973)

Critic score: 22%

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Danny Boyle — "The Beach" (2000)

Critic score: 20%

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Spike Lee — "She Hate Me" (2004)

Critic score: 19%

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Ingmar Bergman — "All These Women" (1964)

Critic score: 17%

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