J.J. Abrams - Star Trek and Force Awakens are on the fringe of bad
Jacques Audiard - No complaints but also not must-see filmmaking
Ramin Bahrani - I didn't care for Goodbye Solo at all
Bong Joon-ho - I've seen shocking few of his movies, considering how much I liked Memories of Murder
Nuri Bilge Ceylan - Climates didn't work for me; Distant, though an improvement, didn't make me seek out more
Sofia Coppola - Another director I've seen shockingly few films from
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne - I consider Lorna's Silence a bad film
Asghar Farhadi - So far, so good
Bahman Ghobadi - I liked A Time for Drunken Horses more than Turtles Can Fly, though even the latter was innocuous
Todd Haynes - I have been afraid to revisit Safe for fear that my supposed hatred of it will now seem embarrassing
Nicole Holofcener - Lovely & Amazing made me want to hurt myself
Jia Zhangke - Pickpocket isn't a good film, but for the purposes of this exercise, it seems weird to penalize a director for such an early work
Pablo Larraín - Jackie was passable, though I'm not convinced Larrain has made a good enough film to be considered here
Mike Leigh - I'm pretty sure Leigh has made some bad films, but I can't yet tell you what they are
Hayao Miyazaki - My animation marathon hasn't yet uncovered a bad film by film
Jeff Nichols - Loving is pretty awful
Kelly Reichardt - Wendy and Lucy is on the cusp of bad
Denis Villeneuve - Blade Runner 2046 disappointed me
Edgar Wright - Baby Driver disappointment me
Holofcener is responsible for probably the worst film I've seen from this crop, with Nichols close behind, but Alexander Payne has made nothing but bad films, from what I can tell, so he needs to go.
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