12 Directors Who Have Never Made A Bad Movie
9. Denis Villeneuve
One of the hottest directors working today (and coming off the back of dropping one of the best sequels of all time), Denis Villeneuve has been creating unappreciated masterpieces for years now, gaining attention with foreign-language epics like Polytechnique and Incendies before onto American-centric stories.
Arrival was the film to properly break him into the mainstream though, and received some rightly-deserved praise in 2016 for using a classic alien invasion tale to tell a deeply person story (although I'll never be over Amy Adams being robbed at the Academy Awards).
His previous movies before this were just as good, with Prisoners and Enemy gaining a dedicated following, while even Sicario, perhaps the shakiest Villeneuve has been since moving over to American cinema, ended up being a deliciously twisted spin on big-budget crime thrillers.
Admittedly, it hasn't been a totally perfect run, and the director's very early work is a bit rough and unrefined. His distinctive fingerprints are still present though, and through these early efforts you can see him slowly find his feet and settle on a vision that would eventually result in some of the best genre pieces of the past few decades.