Great Movies with Low Ratings
These films just don't get enough respect.
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- DirectorAntonio NegretStarsOrlando JonesEdmund EntinGary EntinSeth and Jonah are twins with a dangerous ability: telekinesis. Things spiral out of control as their classmates die one by one. But jealousy soon divides them and they can no longer trust each other leading to a battle against themselves.I've seen so many horror movies that nothing really scares me anymore, except this film, which I saw about three months ago and it really made my skin crawl.
- DirectorJimmy HaywardStarsJosh BrolinMegan FoxJohn MalkovichIn exchange for his freedom, bounty hunter Jonah Hex must track down a terrorist with a superweapon.It's not a great movie by any means but I don't see how it's any worse than all these other cliched superhero flicks.
- DirectorDaniel StammStarsPatrick FabianAshley BellIris BahrA troubled evangelical minister agrees to let his last exorcism be filmed by a documentary crew.The best found footage movie, totally engaging from beginning to end.
- DirectorWes CravenStarsMax ThieriotJohn MagaroDenzel WhitakerA serial killer returns to his hometown to stalk seven children who share the same birthday as the date he was allegedly put to rest.Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, The Last House on the Left) is one of my favorite filmmakers. Though My Soul to Take, the first film he's both written and directed since 1994's New Nightmare, was universally panned, it's in fact wildly experimental and explosively audacious: the work of a true master who doesn't give a hoot what anyone else thinks.
- DirectorRichard KellyStarsCameron DiazJames MarsdenFrank LangellaWith the press of a button, a wooden box bestows riches and death.Those looking for narrative coherence won't find it here, but as it stands, there are some really powerful images in this movie that have stuck with me ever since I first saw it in theaters.
- DirectorRob ZombieStarsScout Taylor-ComptonTyler ManeMalcolm McDowellLaurie Strode struggles to come to terms with her brother Michael's deadly return to Haddonfield, Illinois; meanwhile, Michael prepares for another reunion with his sister.This is another movie that a lot of people won't get. I don't think people who dislike it are wrong, necessarily, I just think they're looking at it from the wrong angle. As someone who have seen more horror movies than you could possibly imagine, a movie as unique and uniquely upsetting as Halloween II is a breath of fresh air.
- DirectorKaryn KusamaStarsMegan FoxAmanda SeyfriedAdam BrodyA newly-possessed high-school cheerleader turns into a succubus who specializes in killing her male classmates. Can her best friend put an end to the horror?Diablo Cody's superior follow-up to Juno has sadly been forgotten.
- DirectorScott StewartStarsPaul BettanyDennis QuaidCharles S. DuttonWhen a group of strangers at a dusty roadside diner come under attack by demonic forces, their only chance for survival lies with an archangel named Michael, who informs a pregnant waitress that her unborn child is humanity's last hope.There is this strange idea that people have where if they laugh at a bad movie, then it's still a bad movie. What is wrong with reacting to a movie in a way that you're not supposed to? I saw Legion in the theaters and it made me laugh and laugh and I talked to my friends about it and we laughed and laughed. How can I call a movie that brought me so much joy bad?
- DirectorRob CowanStarsMatthew LillardDeborah Kara UngerGina HoldenA screenwriting teacher is forced to live out the plot of a screenplay idea he stole from a student, who now seeks revenge.The eternally underrated Larry Cohen (God Told Me To, The Stuff) wrote this outstanding thriller from a couple of years ago that boasts an unexpectedly great performance from the guy who played Shaggy in the Scooby Doo movies.
- DirectorMichael BayStarsShia LaBeoufMegan FoxJosh DuhamelSam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.Michael Bay is hated by a lot of people and it just doesn't make any sense at all. He's one of the few auteurs working in the Hollywood system, easily comprable to Tony Scott, Christopher Nolan and Steven Spileberg. His movies are very loud and busy and I can see why that would be offputting, but you can't call his movies typical Hollywood nonsense because if you really think about, beyond the superficial similarities to other action blockbusters (action scenes, explosions), the way he shoots and edits his movies is completely unique to him. A lot of people may not like him, but he's an auteur nonetheless, and we should congratulate people with unique and distinct voices over hack directors who do whatever idiot producers tell them to do.
- DirectorMarcel LangeneggerStarsHugh JackmanEwan McGregorMichelle WilliamsAn accountant is introduced to a mysterious sex club known as The List by his lawyer friend. But in this new world, he soon becomes the prime suspect in a woman's disappearance and a multi-million dollar heist.I saw this when I was investigating the back catalogue of the very beautiful and very talented Michelle Williams. She's great in it, as always, and the movie as a whole is moody and visually stunning and very exciting. It's not the most original movie you'll ever see, but it does the very specific thing it does very well.
- DirectorOlly BlackburnStarsSian BreckinNichola BurleyJaime WinstoneThings go drastically wrong for a group of British holidaymakers in Spain.As poignant a study of disaffected youth as Bret Easton Ellis's brilliant first two novels, Less Than Zero and The Rules of Attraction.
- DirectorJohn GulagerStarsJenny WadeDiane Ayala GoldnerMartin KlebbaThe monsters have made it into a small neighboring town in the middle of nowhere and the locals have to band with the survivors of the bar' slaughter to figure out how to survive.The first and third movies in the Feast trilogy didn't wholly work for me, but the second one absolutely did. It's insane, ridiculous, hilarious, violent, stupid, egregious and brilliant.
- DirectorM. Night ShyamalanStarsMark WahlbergZooey DeschanelJohn LeguizamoA science teacher, his wife, and a young girl struggle to survive a plague that causes those infected to commit suicide.I'm not sure I totally agree with the criticism that M Night Shyamalan gets. His scripts are not very good but he has a great visual sense and there is some real atmosphere to his films. Also, Zooey Deschanel is sooooooo pretty,
- DirectorAnh Hung TranStarsJosh HartnettNu Yên-Khê TranLee Byung-hunEx-Los Angeles cop turned private eye travels to Hong Kong in search of the missing son of a billionaire.A very powerful film from Vietnamese auteur Anh Hung Tran that boasts a haunting performance from Elias Koteas and a deeply affecting soundtrack from Radiohead and various post-rock bands. Some people find this movie to be slow but nearly every scene is devastating in its own way.
- DirectorOlivier AssayasStarsAsia ArgentoMichael MadsenKelly LinA beautiful woman, Sandra, seduces a wealthy businessman, Miles Rennburg. Little does he realise that she has been sent to kill him at the behest of her boyfriend/crime partner, Lester. Controlling all this is Sue, Lester's wife.The divisive Olivier Assayas continues in the tradition of Antonioni's haunting anti-thrillers L'Avventura and Blow-Up and while Boarding Gate is not as good as either of those widely praised films, I think it's easily on the level of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, another movie that looked like it could have been a mindless thriller but turned out to be slow-paced, unconventional and haunting.
- DirectorDario PianaStarsMike VogelJaime MurrayChristina ColeAn all-American guy is murdered each day by horrifying pursuers, only to wake up in slightly different lives to experience the terror of being murdered again.What if, when you died, you woke up as another person, living a whole new life, with a whole new set of memories, without prior knowledge of all the other people you've been? And what if, one day, your memories starting to stick with you, and you started to remember your old lives, and all the times you died? That is the premise of this brilliant horror movie about how true love can throw your life into chaos.
- DirectorAndrew FlemingStarsEmma RobertsTate DonovanMax ThieriotTeen detective Nancy Drew accompanies her father on a business trip to Los Angeles, where she happens upon clues to a murder mystery involving a movie star.Like Josie and the Pussycats before it, Nancy Drew is superficially a kid's movie but has a lot more depth and substance that you could possibly imagine. This totally won me over, not unlike Toy Story 3, which I was also moved by in spite of myself.
- DirectorGregg ArakiStarsAnna FarisJohn KrasinskiAdam BrodyAfter a young actress unknowingly eats her roommate's marijuana cupcakes, her day becomes a series of misadventures.I'm not the biggest fan of Gregg Araki (Mysterious Skin, Another Day in Paradise) but I find Anna Faris so utterly charming and hilarious that I loved this movie to death. A much, much better stoner comedy than Pineapple Express or The Big Lebowski because it doesn't romanticise people who do drugs, it shows them for who they really are.
- DirectorDavid WainStarsPaul RuddJessica AlbaWinona Ryder10 stories, each inspired by one of the 10 Commandments.The best movie by David Wain (Role Models, Wet Hot American Summer) by a long shot. So funny.
- DirectorGlen MorganStarsMichelle TrachtenbergMary Elizabeth WinsteadLacey ChabertOn Christmas Eve, an escaped maniac returns to his childhood home, which is now a sorority house, and begins to murder the sorority sisters one by one.Glen Morgan's underrated companion piece to Haneke's Funny Games refuses to glorify violence and winds up far more icky and disturbing and unpleasant than anyone could ever want it to be. It doesn't totally work as a movie because the studio cut it shreds but it's quite an experience nonetheless.
- DirectorRichard KellyStarsDwayne JohnsonSarah Michelle GellarSeann William ScottDuring a three-day heat wave just before a huge 4th of July celebration, an action star stricken with amnesia meets up with a porn star who is developing her own reality TV project, and a policeman who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.Another Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko), and the movie that got me interested in politics. I'd never invested any real thought into the government before seeing this movie but it really opened my eyes. It's kind of an absurdist musical crash course in political philosophy.
- DirectorAbel FerraraStarsJuliette BinocheForest WhitakerMatthew ModineThe Virgin Mary delivers a message to an 11-year-old girl.The first, and absolutely not the last, movie in this list by Abel Ferrara, one of the most audacious and uncompromising voices in American cinema. Forest Whitaker turns in a performance here that brought me to tears. An absolute must see. I think that even if you don't like it, you will learn ten times more from this film alone than you would from watching a hundred pleasantly mediocre blockbusters.
- DirectorJay ChandrasekharStarsJay ChandrasekharBill PaxtonKevin HeffernanWhen a serial killer interrupts the fun at the swanky Coconut Pete's Coconut Beach Resort--a hedonistic island paradise for swingers--it's up to the club's staff to stop the violence...or at least hide it.The best film from wild comedy troupe Broken Lizard. What I like most about it is that it's hilarious until someone dies, at which point it becomes really icky. I don't like it when people try to make death into some funny thing. I guess there shouldn't be any limits on what comedian should make fun of, but there is something to be said for people who are humanistic enough to treat the end of someone's life with the reverence and respect it deserves, and don't try to undercut it with some stupid laugh.
- DirectorMark IllsleyStarsNick StahlJohnny GaleckiLukas HaasCenters on four college friends who become small-time bookies, only to find their world spinning dangerously out of control when their greed attracts the attention of organized crime.A kinetic and exciting thriller about amateur bookies who get in over their head. It's very well made and has a cast that includes the very funny Johnny Galecki (The Big Bang Theory) and the stunningly beautiful Rachael Leigh Cook (She's All That).