Film's One-Hit Wonders: 30 Directors With Only One Good Movie

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – April 15, 2018

Even the worst directors have one good film in them. Well, at least some of them do. In the gallery above, we've identified 30 filmmakers from the past four decades who have directed at least five features but have managed to receive positive reviews for just a single one of their films.

Andy Tennant

After a brief career as an actor and dancer (you can spot him in Grease and the 1980 cult classic Midnight Madness), Tennant began directing for television, where his credits include early 1990s competitors Ferris Bueller and Parker Lewis Can't Lose. He jumped to the big screen with 1995's It Takes Two. Like that film, the remainder of his features reside in the rom-com genre, but only the Drew Barrymore-starring Ever After scored positive reviews.

Note that Tennant's most recent film, Wild Oats, somehow managed to avoid getting any reviews during its mere seven-day theatrical run in 2016.

The one good film:
66 Ever After (1998)

Everything else:
45 It Takes Two (1995)
37 Fools Rush In (1997)
56 Anna and the King (1999)
45 Sweet Home Alabama (2002)
58 Hitch (2005)
29 Fool's Gold (2008)
22 The Bounty Hunter (2010)

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