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name: "Don’t listen to the critics"
kind: "editorial"
canonical: "https://film.one/collections/dont-listen-to-the-critics"
films: 1
series: 0
years: "1986–1986"
updated: "2026-10-03T07:52:06.622912+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Don’t listen to the critics

*A Fi1m list.*

Films whose reputation was fixed on opening weekend by people who were not really looking at them. We are the critics, so we try to be honest about how that happens.

Read the piece: [Don’t listen to the critics](https://film.one/features/howard-the-duck-is-a-classic.md).

Best on Fi1m: [*Howard the Duck*](https://film.one/film/howard-the-duck.md) (43).

## The list

1. [*Howard the Duck*](https://film.one/film/howard-the-duck.md) (1986) — Fi1m 43: The flop that nearly sank a studio, and a sincere, strange comedy that has outlived every film that beat it.

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