Criminally Underrated!: 52 favorites that I feel were unfairly maligned (either by critics or audience) or misunderstood, in no particular order. (Note that all of these movies are 4-5 stars in my opinion)

1. Election (Alexander Payne, 1999)

2. Submarine (Richard Ayoade, 2010)

3. True Romance (Tony Scott, 1993)

4. Pineapple Express (David Gordon Green, 2008)

5. Raising Arizona (The Coen Brothers, 1987)

6. Garden State (Zach Braff, 2004)

7. Rob Zombie's debut and Sophomore efforts: House of 1,000 Corpses The Devil's Rejects Halloween (2003, 2005, and 2007)

8. Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier, 2013)

9. Goon (Michael Dowse, 2011)

10. House of the Devil (Ti West, 2009)

11. Starry Eyes (Kevin Kolsch/Dennis Widmyer, 2014)

12. John Wick (Chad Stahelski, 2014)

13. 21 Jump Street (Phil Lord/Christopher Miller, 2012)

14. American Ultra (Nima Nourizadeh, 2015)

15. The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola, 1999)

16. Killing Them Softly (Andrew Dominik, 2012)

17. We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay, 2011)

18. Adam Wingard's The Guest (2014) and You're Next (2013)

19. Burn After Reading (The Coen Brothers, 2008)

20. A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater, 2006)

21. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (Lorene Scafaria, 2012)

22. Scream 2, 3, and 4 (Wes Craven, 1997, 2000, 2011)

23. The Double (Richard Ayoade, 2013)

24. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002)

25. World's Greatest Dad and God Bless America (Bobcat Goldthwait, 2008 and 2011)

26. The Serpent and the Rainbow (Wes Craven, 1988)

27. Frailty (Bill Paxton, 2001)

28. Bernie (Richard Linklater, 2011)

29. Angel Heart (Alan Parker, 1987)

30. Shoot 'Em Up (Michael Davis, 2007)

31. Trick 'r Treat (Michael Dougherty, 2007)

32. Four Lions (Chris Morris, 2010)

33. The Guard (John Michael McDonagh, 2011)

34. In A World (Lake Bell, 2013)

35. Mean Creek (Jacob Aaron Estes, 2004)

36. Be Kind Rewind (Michel Gondry, 2008)

37. We're The Millers (Rawson Marshall Thurber, 2013)

38. Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014)

39. Step Brothers (Adam McKay, 2008)

40. It Follows (David Robert Mitchell, 2014)

41. Cabin In the Woods (Drew Goddard, 2012)

42. Gattacca (Andrew Niccol, 1997)

43. The Mist (Frank Darabont, 2007)

44. Red Dragon (Brett Ratner, 2002)

45. The World's End (Edgar Wright, 2013)

46. Idiocracy (Mike Judge, 2006)

47. Super (James Gunn, 2010)

48. Monsters (Gareth Edwards, 2010)

49. Hostel (Eli Roth, 2005)

50. Adventureland (Greg Mottola, 2009)
51. Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2013)
52. The Green Hornet (Michel Gondry, 2011)