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Category Archives: Worst of the Year

The 10 Worst Films of 2014

Posted on December 31, 2014



BY KEVIN CARR

One of my favorite things to do at the end of the year is to hurl my venom at the worst movies I’ve been forced to watch for the last twelve months. Sure, everyone likes good films, but it’s turning the screws to the life-sucking, waste-of-space movies that really makes things fun. In 2014, we have seen an unfortunate return of the dreaded found-footage movie (though fortunately, few of these made any significant profit this year). There’s also some sequels in the mix that lived down (or below) the originals. It wasn’t a banner year for bad films, per se, but there was no shortage of them (and Tyler Perry only made it to the dishonorable mentions this year, which is nice).
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Posted in Features, Lists, Worst of the Year | Tags: A Haunted House 2, Devil's Due, Hercules, Innocence, Into the Storm, Left Behind, Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, The Best of Me, The Other Woman, The Purge: Anarchy |

The 10 Worst Films of 2013

Posted on December 31, 2013



BY KEVIN CARR

As enjoyable as it is to watch the best films of the year, it’s equally enjoyable assembling the list of the worst films of the year. They may have been torture to sit through, but these movies provide an outlet for rage pent up over the course of the year. They’re boring, they’re sometimes offensive, they’re often difficult to sit through. The worst of the year list isn’t just an announcement. It’s catharsis. And Tyler Perry made it on my list twice…
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Posted in Features, Lists, Worst of the Year | Tags: A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III, A Haunted House, A Madea Christmas, Getaway, Grown Ups 2, Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor, The Heat, The Host, The Place Beyond the Pines |

The 10 Worst Films of 2012

Posted on January 8, 2013



BY KEVIN CARR

While publicists and the film industry itself eagerly await the bevy of Best Films lists from critics, they’re less excited about our lists for the bottom of the barrel. But when there’s arguably more films that can make it on a Worst Films list, this can be a cathartic act for people like me. Where my Best Films list inevitably contains several animated titles, a new trend has shown up on my Worst Films list. Check out numbers 1, 2 and 3 and question whether I want to see another shaky-cam movie in the near future.
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Posted in Features, Lists, Worst of the Year | Tags: Alex Cross, Chronicle, Flight, Killing Them Softly, One for the Money, Project X, Rock of Ages, That's My Boy, The Devil Inside, The Lucky One, This Is 40, Won't Back Down |

The 10 Worst Films of 2011

Posted on January 4, 2012



BY KEVIN CARR

As the year ends, many critics rush to build a list of top films from the past twelve months. While I do that myself (and you can check it out here), it’s sometimes more fun (or at least more cathartic) to compile a hate-filled rant that masquerades as a Worst of the Year list. Like any year, there have been plenty of terrible movies, but here is the sour cream of the crop for 2011.
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Posted in Features, Lists, Worst of the Year | Tags: Another Earth, Bellflower, Big Mommas: Like Father Like Son, Breaking Dawn, Hall Pass, Happy Feet Two, Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence), I Don't Know How She Does It, I Melt with You, Jack and Jill, Just Go With It, Margaret, New Year's Eve, One Day, The Beaver, The Roommate, The Sitter, The Smurfs, The Tree of Life, Zookeeper |

The 10 Most Mediocre Films of 2010

Posted on December 29, 2010



BY KEVIN CARR

This past year had some good films. It also had some great films. And yes, it had some bad films as well. Such is the case for any year, but what stood to me the most was the wash of mediocre movies that hit the screens. These were films that were okay to watch but not great. They defined “meh” and just didn’t rise above any sort of scrutiny. Not much more can be said about the entries to this list, except for the fact that they were all just stunningly okay.
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Posted in Best of the Year, Features, Lists, Worst of the Year | Tags: Edge of Darkness, Get Him to the Greek, Green Zone, Knight and Day, Let Me In, Prince of Persia, Secretariat, The American, The Fighter, The Sorcerer's Apprentice |

The 10 Worst Films of 2010

Posted on December 29, 2010



BY KEVIN CARR

10. CONVICTION
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Each year, some films try so hard to win awards that they become mockeries of themselves. “Conviction” was such a movie, featuring a woman trying to exonerate her brother for murder. Like last year’s “Amelia,” no amount of good acting from Hillary Swank could save this film from the wash of award movie cliches that were thrown at the screen.
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Posted in Features, Lists, Worst of the Year | Tags: Conviction, Extraordinary Measures, Furry Vengeance, Hereafter, I'm Still Here, My Soul to Take, Remember Me, The Back-Up Plan, The Last Airbender, The Tourist |

The Worst Films of the Decade (2000-2009)

Posted on January 3, 2010



BY KEVIN CARR

10. Norbit (2007)
After being nominated for an Oscar, Eddie Murphy bounced back to remind the cinematic world that he still made some of the worst movies imaginable. It may have been a hit, but like the hideous spoofs of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, it only proved that at the right time, the public likes absolute crap.

9. Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows (2000)
Although it induced nausea in moviegoers around the world, The Blair Witch Project was a bona fide indie hit that was a pretty neat film when all was said and done. However, in the wake of spoofs done by everyone from Chris Rock to porno producers, the sequel to this cinematic innovator reached levels of suck only consistently seen in Uwe Boll’s film repertoire.
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Posted in Features, Lists, Worst of the Year | Tags: Alexander, Battlefield Earth, Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows, Crash, Gigli, Gods and Generals, Irreversible, Marie Antoinette, Norbit, The Adventures of Pluto Nash, The Sweetest Thing |

The 10 Worst Films of 2009

Posted on December 30, 2009



BY KEVIN CARR

10. All About Steve
Sandra Bullock had three movies in 2009, two of which have garnered award nominations. This is the other one. She plays a crossword puzzle writer who falls in “love” with a news cameraman and then stalks him from job to job. It’s a non-traditional romantic comedy that fails because it ignores the formula… and the characters are just plain stupid.

9. My Sister’s Keeper
Nick Cassavetes, who gave us the weepy drama “The Notebook,” directs this adaptation of Jodi Picoult’s novel about a family that creates a child to be an organ and tissue farm for their other daughter who is dying of leukemia. It’s overly manipulative and has some of the cheesiest plot points and line deliveries ever.
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Posted in Features, Lists, Worst of the Year | Tags: All About Steve, Last House on the Left, My Life in Ruins, My Sister's Keeper, Not Easily Broken, Observe and Report, Old Dogs, Orphan, The Fourth Kind, The Stepfather |

The 10 Worst Films of 2004

Posted on January 1, 2005



BY KEVIN CARR

1. Alexander
What in God’s name was Oliver Stone thinking? This three hour nightmare takes one of the most powerful figures in history and reduces him to a squandering pervert. The most amazing thing about “Alexander” is that someone, somewhere actually thought it was a good idea.

2. Wicker Park
This remake of a French film bored me to tears. Starring the ever-unsympathetic Josh Hartnett in a story about lust triangles and the good kind of stalkers, “Wicker Park” was too fantastic to believe and too dull to watch ever again.
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Posted in Features, Lists, Worst of the Year | Tags: Alexander, Closer, Fahrenheit 9/11, Secret Window, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Surviving Christmas, The Door in the Floor, The Manchurian Candidate, The Stepford Wives, Wicker Park |

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