8 Filmmakers Who Were Pissed Off By Movie Critics

8. James Gray Thinks That The Guardian Is Dumb

While director James Gray's movies don't tend to set the box-office on fire (his most recent effort, Ad Astra, ended up losing money), they normally fare quite well with critics.

But as is the case with any film, there will always be a bunch of negative reviews dotted around the positive ones, and Gray's 2013 drama - The Immigrant - is no exception.

With an 86% score on Rotten Tomatoes, the film was very much a critical hit, but despite this fact, Gray still took offence to some of the negative discourse surrounding his movie, and in particular, he singled out The Guardian's Cannes review of the film (and the man who wrote it, Peter Bradshaw) with some surprisingly candid criticisms.

Gray was so incensed by some of the details in the review that he ended up calling it "one of the dumbest reviews I've ever read". He then went on to accuse Bradshaw of getting his facts wrong, calling him "lazy" and saying that he failed "as a critic."

Gray also noted that he was originally intending to read as few reviews as possible, but when his publicist sent him some, he couldn't resist having a peek. Based on his reaction, he probably should've stuck to that initial intent.