Previous Rankings
#171-183
MEET CUTE has some moments, thanks to Kaley Cuoco and Pete Davidson’s charm. But it’s repetitive and ultimately a little uncomfortable. BARDO wins this year’s Fuck This Movie award. Some good performances in MOTHERING SUNDAY, but not much else. Adrien Brody is pretty good in CLEAN, but it’s remarkably boring for a supposed crime thriller. I’m begging Liam Neeson to stop with these action movies. BLACKLIGHT (review) is another example that he just can’t cut it anymore.
Will Smith is good in EMANCIPATION, but overall it’s a bungle of what could have been an inspiring depiction of a true story. SENIOR YEAR (review) has a great cast, a fun enough idea, and some nice (but all-too-limited) ’90s nostalgia, but is painfully unfunny given how much talent is involved here. I *hated* CRIMES OF THE FUTURE. I’m not usually a big Cronenberg fan, though, so if you’re more inclined to like his work, there’s a good chance you’ll like this quite a bit more than I did. THE INVITATION. Nope. Predictable to a fault, and wastes way too much time with setup, leading to a rushed an unsatisfying conclusion. HALLOWEEN ENDS was awful. The last movie in the trilogy and you shift the focus away from one of the most iconic movie characters of all time? That was just the beginning of the mistakes.
DEEP WATER (review). What if Gone Girl sucked and was really stupid? THE ENFORCER has Antonio Banderas and Kate Bosworth is still Kate Bosworth, so it’s entirely bad. But that’s about all it’s got. Oh man, MORBIUS (review). Incompetent, nonsensical, barely any fun to be had. *Loved* FALLING FOR CHRISTMAS (review). It’s exactly what you would expect out of a Lindsay Lohan Netflix Christmas movie. If that’s your bag, it’s stupidity and cheesiness won’t affect your enjoyment of it one bit. SHATTERED completely wasted Frank Grillo and Sasha Luss. Awful, awful ending. I liked what Lilly Krug was doing, though.
I simply don’t get the hype surrounding TERRIFIER 2. Ugh, BLONDE. Exploitative, offensive, whatever else you want to say about it. Ana de Armas is pretty dang good, but that’s far from enough to make up for all its other faults. MR. HARRIGAN’S PHONE is one of the most “nothing happens” movies I’ve seen in a while. Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Gillian Jacobs, Kiefer Sutherland in an action spy thriller? THE CONTRACTOR should have been good. What I said about Blacklight applies 100% again here to MEMORY (review). Liam Neeson just doesn’t have it anymore, not from an action standpoint, at least.
