12 Movies From 2016 That Were Unfairly Hated

The Nice Guys might’ve gotten film critics in a tizzy after its Cannes premiere this year, earning it a 92% ‘certified fresh’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a couple of Critics’ Choice Award nominations too, but not everyone was quite so impressed with Shane Black’s latest outing. Most of all and most importantly, the film – a comedy-noir crime thriller set in LA’s 1970s porn scene in which Ryan Gosling and Russel Crowe play a pair of mismatched private detectives looking for a missing girl – was snubbed by moviegoers, making just $57.3 million worldwide against a budget of $50 million.

Certainly, it’s a film for Shane Black fans. One reviewer even called it ‘the Shane Black-est of all the Shane Black movies’, so fans of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and the mismatched camaraderie of Lethal Weapon no doubt enjoyed The Nice Guys. But perhaps being something of an acquired taste wasn’t the only thing limiting the love for the movie. Released amongst a sea of blockbuster kids’ films and comic book movies, it was overshadowed somewhat and quite literally became the epitome of the saying ‘nice guys finish last’, however undeserved that was.