Over-Rated Movie Directors in No Particular Order

1) Charlie Chaplin. That’s right, I said it. I never got The Tramp and never will. And, by the way, The Three Stooges did a hell of a better job making fun of Hitler in You Nazty Spy and I'll Never Heil Again than Chaplin did in that Great Dictator movie.

2) Noam Baumbach. Pretentious filmmaker about pretentious, self-involved people. With Mr. Baumbach movies, movie critics are under the impression that they are watching an intellectual movie about intellectual people made by an intellectual. Wrong on all counts.

3) Whit Stillman. Pretentious filmmaker about pretentious WASPs. His movies are just a painful, excruciating look at characters created by some lame Noel Coward wanna-be. So witty, so smart, so stomach-turning.

4) Michel Gondry. Just pretentious. And like my complaint with Tim Burton, Mr. Gondry seems to do the same wacky, arty-farty stuff over and over. Intellectual? Intelligent? Witty? No, just tedious and boring.

5) QT. I liked Reservoir Dogs but Pulp Fiction was all hype and style over substance. Kill Bill was watchable thanks to the great cameraman Robert Richardson, but overall, that movie was way too long, too indulgent.

6) Michael Moore. Preaching to the choir. Yawn. We get it, Mr. Moore, America (the land that's been paying your royalties from your books, movies, and TV shows for years) sucks. Big Deal.

7) Marty Scorsese. Yes, his record is pretty darn good but come on movie critics, admit it when he makes a stinker like Gangs of New York or Age of Innocence.

8) Tim Burton. He may tackle different stories but his films all end up looking the same: Male and female characters with Bride of Frankenstein hair, heavy Goth make up. Wacky production design. Same old, same old. Tedious and exhausting.