What's your most controversial "X is actually the director's best film" take?

Inspired by a recent post about how Always is Spielberg's masterpiece, which is..... a very unique take. Would love to see anyone trying to outmatch that.

Personally I'm going with Fellini's Il Bidone. The popular opinion seems to be that this is a decidedly minor work, and I do understand why that perception exists. It's a bleak character study of a conman who swindles the poor.

But for me Fellini's greatest talent was how he got you to empathize with characters, no matter how stupid, vain, pathetic or unpleasant they are. And this is like the most extreme version of this. The guy is not even a charismatic con artist, he's just a grey, small time huckster. And yet your heart really breaks for him, there's a scene with his daughter that's just brutal. Also the ending is one of the greatest I've ever seen, it's so bleak and cold-blooded, yet oddly beautiful and transcendental.

Edit:

After reading hundreds of responses, here are the biggest ones in my opinion.

1-Francis Ford Coppola’s Youth Without Youth

2-The Wachowsky’s Jupiter Ascending

3-Robert Altman’s Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

Still don’t think anything quite reaches the levels of Spielberg’s Always.