12 Directors Who Have Never Made A Bad Movie

3. Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick was famously known as being a perfectionist, but his obsessive need to labour over movies meant that while the director didn't make many flicks over his almost 50-year career, each and every one was a new opus.

However, while the popular image of Kubrick is that of a serious auteur who crafted dark, violent tales like The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut and A Clockwork Orange, his full body of work is much more diverse, and often lighter than you'd expect. From establishing the framework of every modern sci-fi film with 2001: A Space Odyssey to cranking out hilarious black comedies like Dr Strangelove, there wasn't a genre Kubrick didn't master.

His earliest features lack the visual flair and narrative preoccupations which would later define him, but they're still solid movies in their own right, and acted as a playground for the budding visionary to hone his skills in.

Likewise, Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut don't have the same polish as his go-to classics, but the latter in particular still boasts some of the most provocative and daring material in the director's entire back catalogue.