Random Best Movies That Were Originally Panned by Critics (23 items)

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  (#5) Home Alone

  • Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, John Candy, Catherine O'Hara, Lionel Barrymore, Daniel Stern, Hope Davis, John Heard, Kieran Culkin, Kristin Minter, Roberts Blossom, Ralph Foody, Bill Erwin, Gerry Becker, Mike Maronna, Gerry Bamman, Billie Bird, Larry Hankin, Peter Siragusa, Devin Ratray, Angela Goethals, Ken Hudson Campbell, Matt Doherty, Hillary Wolf, Paula Newsome, Jim Ortlieb, Senta Moses, Alan Wilder, Ann Whitney, Anna Slotky, Larry Nazimek, Monica Devereux, Dan Charles Zukoski, Diana Rein, Clarke Devereux, Mark Beltzman, Ray Toler, Jedidiah Cohen, Jeffrey Wiseman, Michael Guido, Terrie Snell, Dianne B. Shaw, Victor Cole, Jim Ryan, Linda Wylie, Porscha Radcliffe, Sandra Macat, Peter Pantaleo, Luciano Saber, Michael Hansen, Tracy J. Connor, Robert Okrzesik, Richard J. Firfer, Brittany Radcliffe, Jean-Claude Sciore, Kate Johnson, Leo Perion, John Hardy, Frank Cernugel, Edward Bruzan, Virginia Smith, Lynn Mansbach, Eddie Korosa, Vince Waidzulis

  "When Kevin’s parents discover they’ve forgotten him, they find it impossible to get anyone to follow through on their panicked calls – if anyone did so, the movie would be over. The plot is so implausible that it makes it hard for us to really care about the plight of the kid." – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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  (#2) The Wizard of Oz

  • Judy Garland, Margaret Hamilton, Frank Morgan, Billie Burke, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Pinto Colvig, Rolfe Sedan, Ken Darby, Billy Curtis, Adriana Caselotti, Meinhardt Raabe, Jerry Maren, Jack Haley, Billy Bletcher, Charley Grapewin, Elly Annie Schneider, Clara Blandick, Candy Candido, Ruth Duccini, Mitchell Lewis, Margaret Pellegrini, Harry Wilson, Oliver Smith, Charles Irwin, Tyler Brooke, Lois January, Buster Brodie, Mickey Carroll, nm0467071, Ethelreda Leopold, Pat Walshe, Robert St. Angelo, Eleanor Keaton, 'Little Billy' Rhodes, Abe Dinovitch, Tommy Cottonaro, Daisy Earles, Dona Massin, Harry Earles, Charles Becker, Bud Linn, Terry, Olga C. Nardone, Lee Murray, Elvida Rizzo, Lorraine Bridges, Helen Seamon, Jackie Gerlich, Paul Dale, Sig Frohlich, Rad Robinson, Jon Dodson, George Noisom, Ambrose Schindler, George Ministeri, Fern Formica, August Clarence Swenson, Amelia Batchelor, Jack Paul, Gracie Doll, Nita Krebs, Harry Cogg, Parnell St. Aubin, Dorothy Barrett, Yvonne Moray, Phil Harron, Sid Dawson, Ralph Sudam, Freddie Retter, Jimmy the raven, Johnny Winters

  “I sat cringing before M-G-M’s Technicolor production of 'The Wizard of Oz,' which displays no trace of imagination, good taste, or ingenuity… I don’t like the Singer Midgets under any circumstances, but I found them especially bothersome in Technicolor… I say it’s a stinkeroo.” – Russell Maloney, The New Yorker
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  (#20) Selena

  • Jennifer Lopez, Constance Marie, Edward James Olmos, Alex Meneses, Jon Seda, Lupe Ontiveros, Jacob Vargas, Seidy López, Jackie Guerra, Gil Glasgow, Sal Lopez, Gail Cronauer, Joe Stevens, Jeff Dylan Graham, Barbara Petricini-Buxton, Richard Coca, Panchito Gomez, Larry Cashion, Rick Olmos, León Singer, Ricky Vela, Erick Carrillo, John Verea, Marta Flores, George Perez, Don Cass, Lori Berlanga, Frank Mendez, Raven Kaylor, Andie X, Everett Sifuentes, Cora Cardona, Rueben Gonzales, Xavier Ramirez, Tom Christopher, Bel Hernandez, Molly Moroney, Pete Astudillo, Ray Melendez, Victoria Elena Flores, Valerio Longoria, Sr., Donnie Neubauer, Marc Kenneth Robinson, Marcos Padilla, Terry Elena Ordaz, Desi McGill, Mark Carrillo, Darline Tigrett, Elisabeth Gonzalez, Michael Guerrero, Carmen Martínez, Carl William Holler, Richard Iglesias, Ronald Gonzales, Don Shelton, Elia Ortiz, Keith Kaslow, Michelle McManus, Richard Emanuelle, Marika Baca, Philip Raybourn, Peter P. Montejano, Leonardo Martinez, Jason Bradley Jacobs, Richard William Hughes, Nicole Young, Fernando Cubillas, Francisco J. De La Fuente, Amin Mery, Rafael Tamayo, Rebecca Lee Meza, Chris Doughton, Brian Fallteen

  The 1997 movie Selena, which told the life story of singer Selena Quintanilla, featured Jennifer Lopez’s breakout role and turned out to be a big box office success. But the biopic received mixed reviews. Many critics praised Lopez's performance and the musical numbers, while taking issue with the lack of character development and the thin plot.
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  (#12) The Thing

  • Kurt Russell, Keith David, John Carpenter, Adrienne Barbeau, Wilford Brimley, Richard Masur, Norbert Weisser, Donald Moffat, Charles Hallahan, Joel Polis, David Clennon, Richard A. Dysart, T. K. Carter, Peter Maloney, Thomas G. Waites, Larry J. Franco, Nate Irwin, Jed, William Zeman

  The Thing was nearly universally derided by critics in 1982. Reviewers complained about the over-the-top special effects, gruesome action sequences, and a plot that seemed to make little sense.

  The film is still definitely gruesome, but the critical consensus has changed. The Thing is now widely regarded as one of the greatest horror films ever made and a huge influence on the genre as a whole.
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  (#4) Fight Club

  • Brad Pitt, Jared Leto, Helena Bonham Carter, Edward Norton, Meat Loaf, Eion Bailey, Lauren Sánchez, David Lee Smith, Edward Kowalczyk, Holt McCallany, Zach Grenier, Bob Stephenson, Christina Cabot, David Andrews, Brian Tochi, Matt Winston, Ezra Buzzington, Carl Ciarfalio, Tim De Zarn, Jim Jenkins, Richmond Arquette, Philip Hawn, Leonard Termo, Thom Gossom Jr., Charlie Dell, David Jean Thomas, Paul Dillon, Michael Shamus Wiles, Stuart Blumberg, Marcio Rosario, Pat McNamara, Michael Arturo, Markus Redmond, Tommy Dallace, Rachel Singer, George Maguire, Robby Robinson, Paul Carafotes, Peter Iacangelo, Joel Bissonnette, Christopher John Fields, Scotch Ellis Loring, Eugenie Bondurant, Eddie Hargitay, Kevin Scott Mack, Mark Fite, Evan Mirand, Sydney 'Big Dawg' Colston, Bennie Moore, Chad Randau, Lou Beatty Jr., Matt Cinquanta, Joon B. Kim, Michael Girardin, Christie Cronenweth, Baron Jay, Hugh Peddy, Tyrone R. Livingston, Andi Carnick, Owen Masterson, Rob Lanza, Van Quattro, Trey Ore, Jawara, Gregory Silva, Valerie Bickford, Alekxia Valdez, J.T. Pontino, Dierdre Downing-Jackson, Anderson Bourell, Todd Peirce, Louis Ortiz

  New York Daily News called Fight Club “hardly groundbreaking,” the Miami Herald referred to it as “a bit of a dud,” and the Boston Globe said that its “chic indictment of empty materialist values fizzles.”
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  (#13) Bonnie and Clyde

  • Gene Hackman, Faye Dunaway, Gene Wilder, Warren Beatty, Estelle Parsons, Denver Pyle, Dub Taylor, Michael J. Pollard, Patrick Cranshaw, Owen Bush, Evans Evans, Ken Mayer, Ann Palmer, Mabel Cavitt, Martha Adcock, Frances Fisher, Harry Appling, Russ Marker, Clyde Howdy, Ken Miller, Garry Goodgion, Stuart Spates, James Stiver, Ada Waugh, Sadie French

  “It is a cheap piece of bald-faced slapstick comedy that treats the hideous depredations of that sleazy, moronic pair as though they were as full of fun and frolic as the jazz-age cutups in Thoroughly Modern Millie… This blending of farce with brutal [slayings] is as pointless as it is lacking in taste, since it makes no valid commentary upon the already travestied truth. And it leaves an astonished critic wondering just what purpose Mr. Penn and Mr. Beatty think they serve with this strangely antique, sentimental claptrap.” – Bosley Crowther, the New York Times

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