30 Film Directors Who Have Never Made a Bad Movie

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – June 9, 2018

Recently, we looked at 30 filmmakers who made only one well-reviewed movie over their entire careers, and then 25 great directors who missed out on perfection by just one film. But there is an even more elite group of film directors who have received critical acclaim for every single film they ever directed. In other words, they've never received anything but a green Metascore for one of their features.

How many of those directors can you guess? Check them all out in the gallery above. Note that we only looked at directors who have made at least five films since 1980.

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Bahman Ghobadi

Another Iranian director (actually Kurdish-Iranian), Ghobadi has spent much of his film career (which kicked off in earnest with his debut feature, 2000's A Time for Drunken Horses) depicting the lives of modern-day Kurds living in Iran and Iraq.

Note that his 2015 documentary A Flag Without a Country was not released in the United States and thus does not have a Metascore.

The full filmography (as director):
78 A Time for Drunken Horses (2000)
86 Marooned in Iraq (2002)
85 Turtles Can Fly (2004)
72 Half Moon (2006)
71 No One Knows About Persian Cats (2009)
66 Rhino Season (2012)

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