Every Cameron Diaz Movie With Bad Ratings That S Still Worth Watching

Every Cameron Diaz Movie With Bad Ratings That’s Still Worth Watching

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We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. If you were around during the 1990s and 2000s, you know Cameron Diaz. There was a time when you couldn’t go more than a few months without one of her films landing at a theater near you — and for good reason. Diaz is as talented as she is kind and determined, and she’s made some of the most beloved films out there, like “Charlie’s Angels,” “There’s Something About Mary,” and “The Mask.”

However, that doesn’t mean every Diaz movie has been a grand slam with audiences and critics. In fact, some of her films have pretty terrible reviews — but they’re still worth watching anyway.  You won’t see Diaz doing much in terms of acting these days, and that’s because the actress has effectively retired. In 2020, she explained to fellow actress Gwyneth Paltrow that she left the industry because she wanted to. “I just decided that I wanted different things out of my life,” she said (via CNN). “I had gone so hard for so long, working, making films and it’s such a grind. I didn’t really make any space for my personal life.” Fair enough! Here’s a look back at some of the star’s less-beloved hits that we think are still worth checking out.

‘Head Above Water’

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Released way back in 1996, “Head Above Water” stars our girl Cameron Diaz as Nathalie, wife of Harvey Keitel’s Judge George. The two are on vacation with close friends when tragedy strikes: One is found dead. What follows definitely falls under the category of “dark comedy,” but the movie proves that there is truly an audience for everything. 

Reviewer Derek Elley wrote for Variety that Diaz was one of the best parts of the whole movie. “‘Head Above Water’ is an amiable, let’s-hide-the-corpse black comedy that’s funniest when it finally lets go of the reins in the last act. Elsewhere, despite watchable playing by Cameron Diaz, the movie takes awhile to find its legs, and is weighed down in the early stages by a seriously miscast Harvey Keitel.” The movie is actually a remake of a 1993 Scandinavian film by the same name. If you love Diaz, then it’s worth a shot. As Elley concluded, “The picture is a fine showcase for Diaz’s fast-developing acting skills.”

Every Cameron Diaz Movie With Bad Ratings That’s Still Worth Watching

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By Stephanie Kaloi/Aug. 4, 2021 1:49 pm EST

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. If you were around during the 1990s and 2000s, you know Cameron Diaz. There was a time when you couldn’t go more than a few months without one of her films landing at a theater near you — and for good reason. Diaz is as talented as she is kind and determined, and she’s made some of the most beloved films out there, like “Charlie’s Angels,” “There’s Something About Mary,” and “The Mask.”

However, that doesn’t mean every Diaz movie has been a grand slam with audiences and critics. In fact, some of her films have pretty terrible reviews — but they’re still worth watching anyway.  You won’t see Diaz doing much in terms of acting these days, and that’s because the actress has effectively retired. In 2020, she explained to fellow actress Gwyneth Paltrow that she left the industry because she wanted to. “I just decided that I wanted different things out of my life,” she said (via CNN). “I had gone so hard for so long, working, making films and it’s such a grind. I didn’t really make any space for my personal life.” Fair enough! Here’s a look back at some of the star’s less-beloved hits that we think are still worth checking out.

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

However, that doesn’t mean every Diaz movie has been a grand slam with audiences and critics. In fact, some of her films have pretty terrible reviews — but they’re still worth watching anyway. 

You won’t see Diaz doing much in terms of acting these days, and that’s because the actress has effectively retired. In 2020, she explained to fellow actress Gwyneth Paltrow that she left the industry because she wanted to. “I just decided that I wanted different things out of my life,” she said (via CNN). “I had gone so hard for so long, working, making films and it’s such a grind. I didn’t really make any space for my personal life.”

Fair enough! Here’s a look back at some of the star’s less-beloved hits that we think are still worth checking out.

‘What to Expect When You’re Expecting’

In fact, it turns out the movie might get better the more you watch it. As the reviewer writes, “It’s actually one of those movies that is more enjoyable after multiple viewings, like those old cable TV stalwarts from back in the day, where you’d turn it on while doing chores and the you’d turn off the vacuum for the parts you like best.”

‘The Other Woman’

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Of course, you wouldn’t know that, based on the reviews it’s received. The film is ranked at 26% on Rotten Tomatoes, 6/10 on IMDb, and 39% on Metacritic. Film reviewer Mark Kermode wrote (via The Guardian), “It would nice to be able to declare that this women-on-top revenge comedy presents a sparky gender-role inversion, but instead it just trots out the usual clichés in tired and increasingly tiresome fashion.” Ouch!

‘The Sweetest Thing’

‘Annie’

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However, it seems that plenty of others did not. Roger Ebert wrote, “Judged purely in terms of its production and direction, this latest ‘Annie’ is inferior to its predecessors; director Will Gluck, of TV’s ‘The Marshalls’ and ‘Andy Richter Controls the Universe,’ has envisioned it as a repository of 2014 music and musical performance cliches, the actors cavorting through indifferently composed widescreen vistas, and singing in voices that have been heavily AutoTuned.”

‘Head Above Water’

Marcel Thomas/Getty Images

Released way back in 1996, “Head Above Water” stars our girl Cameron Diaz as Nathalie, wife of Harvey Keitel’s Judge George. The two are on vacation with close friends when tragedy strikes: One is found dead. What follows definitely falls under the category of “dark comedy,” but the movie proves that there is truly an audience for everything. 

Reviewer Derek Elley wrote for Variety that Diaz was one of the best parts of the whole movie. “‘Head Above Water’ is an amiable, let’s-hide-the-corpse black comedy that’s funniest when it finally lets go of the reins in the last act. Elsewhere, despite watchable playing by Cameron Diaz, the movie takes awhile to find its legs, and is weighed down in the early stages by a seriously miscast Harvey Keitel.” The movie is actually a remake of a 1993 Scandinavian film by the same name. If you love Diaz, then it’s worth a shot. As Elley concluded, “The picture is a fine showcase for Diaz’s fast-developing acting skills.”

Reviewer Derek Elley wrote for Variety that Diaz was one of the best parts of the whole movie. “‘Head Above Water’ is an amiable, let’s-hide-the-corpse black comedy that’s funniest when it finally lets go of the reins in the last act. Elsewhere, despite watchable playing by Cameron Diaz, the movie takes awhile to find its legs, and is weighed down in the early stages by a seriously miscast Harvey Keitel.”

The movie is actually a remake of a 1993 Scandinavian film by the same name. If you love Diaz, then it’s worth a shot. As Elley concluded, “The picture is a fine showcase for Diaz’s fast-developing acting skills.”