Leonardo DiCaprio's 8 Lowest-Scoring Movies

Even Leo has a bottom shelf. These are his eight lowest movie.guru scores, and a couple of them are lower than they deserve.

Number one is everyone's backpacking-phase favorite. The comments are gonna be loud.

1. 8
   Revolutionary Road (2008)6.9

   Leo and Kate reunited, then made everyone miserable on purpose.

   A 6.9 is fair. Brilliant acting, but $22.9M domestic on a reported $45M budget says nobody wanted a date night this heavy.
2. 7
   Gangs of New York (2002)6.9

   Leo got out-mustached in his own movie.

   Daniel Day-Lewis walks in and the movie is his. Metacritic 72, CinemaScore B, and a lead stuck standing next to a volcano. 6.9 checks out.
3. 6
   William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)6.3

   Underrated. Shakespeare with guns still works.

   Turned a reported $14.5M into $147.6M worldwide with an A minus CinemaScore. The movie.guru score is 6.3, the Guru's Take is 7.0. Teenagers in 1996 were right.
4. 5
   Don't Look Up (2021)6.3

   A satire that tells the joke, then explains it.

   Audiences beat 74% of movies, critics only 38%. Metacritic 49. Guru's Take is 5.8, because a comet movie shouldn't need you nodding this hard.
5. 4
   Shutter Island (2010)6.2

   Way too low. This is a rewatch machine.

   8.2 on IMDb from 1.69 million votes, yet a C+ CinemaScore and a 6.2 here. Guru's Take is 7.5. Opening crowds hated the fog. Everyone else hit rewind.
6. 3
   The Great Gatsby (2013)5.2

   All champagne, no hangover worth having.

   A reported budget of $105M to $190M, $353.7M worldwide, 49% on Rotten Tomatoes. Leo raising a glass is the best two seconds. The rest is very expensive confetti.
7. 2
   Body of Lies (2008)4.8

   The Leo movie your dad forgot he watched.

   Ridley Scott plus Russell Crowe should not land at 4.8. A B minus CinemaScore and 55% on Rotten Tomatoes agree: competent, gray, gone by the parking lot.
8. 1
   The Beach (2000)3.3

   Earned its 3.3. Pretty water is not a plot.

   Rotten Tomatoes 21%, CinemaScore C, movie.guru score 3.3. Yet 272,048 IMDb voters keep it at 6.6. Your backpacking phase is showing.

$517.63 says someone defends The Beach by posting a vacation photo instead of an argument.

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