10 Movies The Critics Were Wrong About
6. Crash
Unlike every other film on this list, here's one that critics were actually way too generous with.
Paul Haggis' race drama Crash must surely be the most unpopular Best Picture Oscar winner of the last few decades, with the general consensus being that Brokeback Mountain was a far more fitting victor.
Though one of the weakest-reviewed Best Picture winners of all time, Crash still touts a respectable enough 74% on the Tomatometer, an entire 10% higher than David Cronenberg's vastly superior 1996 film of the same name.
It's fair to say that time hasn't exactly been kind to Haggis' Crash, and were it released today, its rather trite, heavy-handed meditations on racism in American society would be more divisively received.
It's hardly an awful movie, largely thanks to the fine work from the ensemble cast, but it ticks all the awards-baiting boxes with a reckless abandon, enough that it really doesn't deserve to be critically Fresh.