Cinematic Shame... with a "Stay Positive!" Twist
Tuesday, December 27, 2016 at 10:54PM 
Year in Review. Every day a new wrap-up. Tonight, the "worst" of the year...
Since we are absolutely determined to make 2017 the greatest year it could possibly be despite oppressive circumstances, let this post serve as last call for excessive negativity. Get it all out of your system in the comments, mkay? We'll also put a positive spin on these dubious "awards" for ungreat things at the movie theaters this year...
WORST OPENING SCENE(S)
Hacksaw Ridge begins with such overworked hokey cartoonish Americana and Andrew Garfield plays his eventual pacifist hero as such a Forrest Gump style village idiot that it's something of a miracle that the movie becomes a surprisingly watchable war drama thereafter.
Even Garfield manages to turn his initially quite awful (sorry) performance around in the final hour of the film. I personally haven't seen a decent / good movie start so much like it was a terrible movie since Juno, have you?
WORST MIDDLE
Suicide Squad is so inept that it never gets past character introductions. Criticisms that it was just a movie trailer with a real movie running time proved to have deadlier aim than Will Smith's Deadshot.
Best Acting in Bad Movies, and other "Honors" after the jump....
WORST ENDING
The sitcom jokiness of Sully's final shot has to be a strong conten--OH NO WAIT. This prize definitely belongs to Swiss Army Man which squanders nearly all of its fantastical verve and metaphoric potency for a 'the f***?' reality-based shrug. Positivity Twist: They're both pretty good movies otherwise...
WORST PLOT POINT
Batman vs Superman. Both of their mother's names are "Martha" -- this changes everything! Positivity Twist: On the other hand it's always a relief when "boy" genre movies acknowledge that women exist at all aside from "love interest on the sidelines to assure nervous audiences that the heroes are heterosexual"
Guarantee: some little kid somewhere wili come up with more inventive action scenes while playing with these toys than the movie ever does
WORST ACTION SEQUENCES
Battling those crumbling rock hordes of The Enchantress in Suicide Squad. Like the metal armies in Ultron or the character-free aliens of Avengers or Queen Ravenna's glass soldiers in Snow White and The Huntsman or any of those anonymous hordes in blockbusters, only with EVEN LESS personality somehow. Positivity Twist: Suicide Squad is a truly titanic achievement in bad action sequences so points for really committing! Even if we were to cite four other nominees for a category, they'd all be from Suicide Squad in which not one punch, shot, kick, stab, tussle, or swing ever carries any weight or thrill or consequence. The only physical movements that set the heart racing are when Amanda Waller cuts a steak, enters a room, or... um... exists in the frame. This is Viola Davis we're talking about.
MOST PERSISTENT / ANNOYING CLICHE
No matter what decade it is, no matter the quality of the movie otherwise, a good number of filmmakers will always think the audience is dumb enough to need a "recap" in the middle of the movie or before the climax usually involving a super cut editing montage or a voiceover repetition of past dialogue. This recapping urge makes sense on television but why are filmmakers (or even a lot of TV creatives) STILL editing ahead for commercial breaks and constantly interrupted narratives even though most movies and many television shows no longer or will ever play in the increasingly passé network TV format of constant commercial breaks. Netflix, HBO, DVD, and many streaming services let you watch your show or movie from start to finish unless you personally would like to pause it. This is a long way of saying that it was super annoying when The Birth of a Nation recapped all of its atrocities just before Nate Parker picked up his axe, as if you'd already forgotten the horrors you'd been watching for 90 minutes.
WORST USE OF TECHNOLOGY
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk... all that trouble in frame spreed and "realism" and how it affects cameras and literally every department (if you listen to the filmmakers discuss it) and for what? Why should movies view "reality" as the end goal? Reality has reality covered; Movies are dreams. Positivity Twist: Let Billy Lynn serve as a cautionary tale of 'if it aint broke don't fix it.' Cinema is beautiful and in no need of "fixing" and Billy Lynn reminds us of this because Ang Lee's non "fixed" movies are soooo much better. Come back home to traditional storytelling, Ang Lee, at which you excel. It served you very well for two decades of beautiful human drama. Click your heels together three times...
POTENTIALLY TERRIBLE MOVIE (OR MAYBE IT'S GOOD --WHAT?) WE SKIPPED
The animated jukebox musical Sing sounds atrociously annoying even within the context of its positive reviews so, no, unless it gets Oscar nominated and we're forced into it.
REPORTEDLY BAD MOVIES WE AVOIDED (AND THEIR RT RATINGS)
Alice Through the Looking Glass (30%), The Angry Birds Movie (43%), Assassin's Creed (19%), Ben-Hur (25%), Collateral Beauty (13%) Criminal (30%), Divergent Series: Allegiant (12%), Independence Day: Resurgence (31%), Nine Lives (11%), and Zoolander 2 (23%),
MOST OVERAPPRECIATED MOVIE OF THE YEAR
Deadpool is to 2016 what Shrek was to 2001. People will eventually be embarrassed by the praise they threw its way and the throne room they furiously built for it atop the Pop Culture Tower and how many sequels they were willing to sit through but for now... Positivity Twist: enjoy the hell out of what you enjoy and screw the haters (oops... that's The Film Experience this time.)
MOST OVERAPPRECIATED PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR
Margot Robbie as "Harley Quinn" in Suicide Squad. Rarely has such a single-faceted star turn won such drooling admiration from seemingly every corner of the universe. This 30 Rock repurposing tweet best sums it up.
LEAKED FOOTAGE OF MARGOT ROBBIE IN SUICIDE SQUAD: pic.twitter.com/dxYbfcjygS
— the raddest roach ™ (@kurtzperson) August 6, 2016
WORST SEXUAL POLITICS
It can be exhausting caring about this -- oh how the world disappoints in this realm, year after year -- but among the more problematic movies this year in this regard were The Birth of a Nation which seems to view women as property even while it rages against the notion of people as property and Passengers which can't ever quite ever get out from under its queasy Stockholm Syndrome romance. But while those movies are very compromised in this regard, we must give this prize to ANY movie that casts an Academy-leve Actress in an insultingly limited "don't worry, honey!" role or its inverse the "judgy-faced soon-to-be-ex-wife/girlfriend". We're talking to you Sully (Laura Linney), The Founder (Laura Dern), and Genius (Nicole Kidman AND Laura Linney)
DUBIOUS ACHIEVEMENT IN PHONING IT IN
Jennifer Lawrence in Passengers. She's not even trying! I mean did anyone watching this believe that her journalist character had ever written a word in her life? Nothing about Aurora felt authentic beyond her unmistakable attractiveness which figures into the plot since her fellow Passenger (Chris Pratt) pines for her before her cryogenic sleep is interrupted. I dunno Jen. Maybe do some character backstory, improv exercizes, dream journalling, picking a secret about the character that you never reveal? There are reams of actorly tricks to choose from to find a way into a character. Try something. Your charisma IS enormous but history is full of faded stars with once giant sized screen presences who were lazy about it.
PEARLS BEFORE SWINE
TIE. In which actors work their asses off for movies that don't remotely deserve them. Positivity twist: These actors will not go down with the ship so better luck next time they book passage
Emily Blunt in The Girl on the The Train
Blunt's eery mimicry perfection -- if you've ever spent time with someone in perpetual states of shifting but always dangerous blood alcohol levels it's ALL there -- and her febrile disorientation are so emphatically delivered that she's practically approaching Isabelle Huppert in Elle realms of co-authorship. The SAG nomination was a surprise but not actually all that undeserved. It's really too bad that the movie can't remotely keep up with her, as sloppy as Emily is precise.
Michael Shannon in Nocturnal Animals
The Globes argued the case for Aaron Taylor Johnson's impossibly and revoltingly sexy literally shitting redneck as the standout in Tom Ford's potboiler, but Michael Shannon is the only actor in this movie that seems to understand that he's playing a fictional scene-stealing conceit within the lurid context of a possibly awful book within a definitely gross movie.
TERRIBLE OR BRILLIANT?
We never answered this question about The Neon Demon so... maybe it's both? It's definitely one to check back in with in five to ten years and see how it's aging.
BEST BAD MOVIE WE MIGHT ONE DAY LOVE ?
TIE. 2016 offered up two bloated ugly beauties that struggled to make a lick of sense or choreograph their setpieces gracefully around their unwiedly premises and maybe the actors were all in different movies tonally but who cares. The truth of it, at least from our experience, is that Gods of Egypt and Warcraft were both somehow endearing despite or maybe because of their 12 foot tall flaws. Like, we'd legit watch a sequel should either of them be dumb enough to make one.
MOST CONFUSED PICTURE OF THE YEAR
Rules Don't Apply. Theoretically long gestation periods can help focus your goals. In the case of this Howard Hughes biopic that's not really a biopic and Young Hollywood romantic comedy that's not really a romantic comedy or "young," and Historical drama that's not really inside its drama or its history, it only seems to have confused whatever originally motivated Warren Beatty to make it. It has its moments (particularly when it focuses on Howard Hughes) but we're watching at least three different movies struggling for dominance.
NINE WORST PICTURES OF THE YEAR
With the obvious disclaimer that this means "of films we watched this year" and surely greater atrocities exist -- Positivity twist: If they exist, we escaped them!
Batman v Superman - toxic masculinity, origin story addiction, and that joyless color palette hamper its chances of doing anything worthwhile. But at least it has a smidgeon of fun with Wonder Woman's debut which makes it our favorite of this Bad Movie Nine.
Desierto - sickeningly violent and even (SPOILER) dog-torturing
Genius - plainly sexist, unremittingly heavy-handed, and dishwater dull
The Huntsman: Winter's War - a joyless cartoon that misses most of what made its predecessor a success
I Saw the Light - totally inert by-the-numbers biopic
Midnight Special -there's mysterious and ambiguous and then there's so vague you barely exist. Thinks of itself as a great movie which somehow makes it worse
Nocturnal Animals - Just... no.
Suicide Squad - it escaped the wrath that greeted Batman v Superman but in virtually every way it's actually an inferior film. (Maybe people like it more because it's less pompous about itself?)
X-Men Apocalypse - we're now sufficiently embarrassed that we ever rooted for Bryan Singer to get his hands back on this series. He only had a few ideas about these great characters to begin with and he used those all up on his first three efforts.
And the "winner" is Nocturnal Animals, the most loathsome movie of the year that also suffers from the biggest case of Emperor's New Clothes syndrome. That said Desierto's snuff-film "action sequences" are just as disgusting and Suicide Squad trumps the whole list if you're concentrating on more objective measures of quality in filmmaking. Squad remains the most ineptly made movie of the year I had the displeasure to watch: shoddy construction, one-note characterizations, and that dread 'what was the point beyond making coin' feeling of soullessness that came up with the lights in the movie theater.
WHICH FILMS AND PERFORMANCES MADE YOUR BLOOD BOIL OR DISAPPOINTED YOU THE MOST? And for something more positive: Who do you think most elevated bad material this year?
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Reader Comments (45)
The worst movies I saw this year were Deadpool, Suicide Squad, Nocturnal Animals, Sausage Party and... Captain Fantastic (which I know Nathaniel is a fan of, but I just couldn't stand a single second of it!)
I actually "liked" Nocturnal Animals though I grant you, the Emperor's New Clothes syndrome situation is absolutely correct. But at least it had a plot, awesome costumes and good acting. Which I can't say about a lot of other "celebrated" movies of this year. So to be completely negative , as you encouraged at the top of the post., 2016 sucked in movies , with the exception of Things To Come and La La Land .
The worst movies I saw this year were Marguerite, Nocturnal Animals, Captain Fantastic, Certain Women, and A Family Affair.
Is Jennifer Lawrence ever going to return to the Winter's Bone-level brilliance she displayed (which feels like an eternity ago)? That was undoubtedly the most deeply-felt performance of her career. I blame David O. Russell's "throw everything at the wall and see what sticks" approach for fucking her instincts up. I hope Darren Aronofsky got something extraordinary out of her, cause she does have enormous potential.
Love this write-up and the Pearls Before Swine and Phonong it in discussions.
100% agree with your Gods of Egypt Warcraft write ups.
Very, very puzzled by how Garfield managed to gain so much traction for his Hacksaw Ridge performance? I have generally been a fan, but that performance isn't... good.
I so regret not seeing Blunt in The Girl on the Train. I really liked the book, and love her. One day she'll get her due, and the movie comes out soon too! Suicide Squad is so poorly edited, framed, and shot that literally nothing matters. I appreciated how absolutely done Viola Davis was with the whole show, because same. But I absolutely agree with you on Nocturnal Animals. Suicide Squad is just kinda there. Nocturnal Animals is actively repulsive on sort of every level. Michael Shannon sort of rises above it but god is everyone either just atrocious or wasted and stuck in godawful outfits. Everything about it is just cruel. Surely no one could hate any aspect of the film as much as Tom Ford himself?
I will defend Deadpool to death, it is everything Shrek wasn't and should have been, now that you make the comparison.
Agreed on much of this. At least for the ones I saw. The worst films I saw were:
The Neon Demon (Abbey Lee the MVP)
Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru
Suicide Squad
The Menkoff Method
Like Cattle Towards Glow
Mifune: The Last Samurai
Assassin's Creed
Mascots
Those People
King Cobra
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny
The BFG
Red Christmas
Life, Animated
The MVPs of these bad movies? Abbey Lee in NEON DEMON, the antique sequence of CROUCHING TIGER 2, Viola/Margot in SUICIDE SQUAD, and the animation of LIFE, ANIMATED.
The worst bits? The puddle-deep industry critique of NEON DEMON, the visual effects of both SUICIDE SQUAD and THE BFG (I thought it was uncanny valley syndrome, but also just ugly), Keanu Reeves' narration of MIFUNE, wasting Alicia Silverstone and Molly Ringwald in KING COBRA in favour of lol James Franco and boring attempts at camp. The fact that I AM NOT YOUR GURU is literally just an infomercial for Tony Robbins.
Worst bits of other movies: The end of SULLY, the opening of HACKSAW RIDGE, James Franco in QUEEN OF THE DESERT...
I think I may be the only member of Team FE who didn't hate Nocturnal Animals. It was flawed, yes, but had some interesting seeds of ideas, and I actually found the first two-thirds compelling. The film lost its way in the last third or so, however, and just kind of sputtered to a non-conclusion.
Worst movie I saw this year: Suicide Squad. Only went because my husband dragged me to it. Best thing I can say is it wasn't as terrible as I thought it would be. Just thuddingly mediocre.
Most overrated: Deadpool, definitely. Being snarky and self-mocking does not make a movie automatically worth watching, sorry. The Shrek comparison is apt.
The stupidest article on TFE ever.
All attacks on NOCTURNAL ANIMALS, BILLY LYNN or Robbie/Garfield are laughable and are disgrace for this site.
Ugh, I love the use of plural in the article which I suppose is to imply that the opinion is a fact. If you ever write an article about TFE shame articles I nominate this one for #1.
I don't find Jennifer Lawrence charismatic or attractive.
The only films cited in the article that I have seen or will likely see are The Birth of a Nation, The Founder and Deadpool (already) and The Girl on the Train and The Neon Demon (later this week) and I'm good with that. Really good with that.
I'm currently struggling with Simon Helberg's performance in Florence Foster Jenkins: pitch perfect or "too much"? I fear the latter, but it's tricky.
Love your analysis of Jlaw and Emmy Blunt. 100% spot on.
My worst five of the year are: High-Rise, The Light Between Felicia and Fassbinder's Fake PR Relationship, The Boss, Batman v Superman and So Young 2: Never Gone (a corny Chinese rom-com).
Two worst performances of the year are the DC double bill of Blahra Delevingne in Suicide Squad and Jesse Eisenberg in BvS.
Worst case of false advertising in 2016 was sticking Jonah Hill on the Hail, Caesar! poster.
Neon Demon is terrible now - it will be terrible in five to ten years!
And Abbey Lee is not good in it.
Christina Hendricks and Jena Malone are that movie's sole bright spots.
Nathaniel, don't be sorry about saying Garfield is bad in Hacksaw Ridge -
he IS bad in Hacksaw Ridge! Really fucking bad - he's also bad in the later part of the movie, if you ask me.
Yes, J-Law was pretty awful in Passengers - it wasn't just the spaceship that was on autopilot!
But Chris Pratt was even worse.
Totally enjoyed Deadpool, but it is not award worthy in any sense. Those globe nominations are a joke.
That said, I hope that Nocturnal Animals get some Oscar love to spite this article LOL
Would Billy Lynn be a great movie if it were not shot like that though?
Did Lawrence do Passengers to prove a point about pay then she got on the set and thought "What now".
I... sort of liked Suicide Squad, or at least I wasn't bored by it in the way I was by the likes of BvS and Deadpool. I mean, it's flawed as hell and not exactly my bag, but it had two or three performances that elevated it (Smith, Davis, Robbie) and in a world of blockbusters that are trying to be everything to everyone there was something oddly refreshing about a movie that picked one audience (in this case disaffected 14-year-olds) and just laser focused the appeal to that one audience.
I thought Fassy was marrying Vikander
I suspect 'someone' and 'agent69' haven't actually been reading TFE very long.
I suspect 'someone' and 'agent69' haven't actually been reading TFE very long.
The main conflict in "Batman vs Superman" makes no sense- everyone except the villain loves Superman- it just make Bruce Wayne look like a whiny spoil brat- the big twist that their mothers have the same name and is just ridiculous- but the film also features the self indulgent Batman in bondage nightmare scene- perhaps Bruce Wayne really wants to be raped by Superman....I enjoyed "War Craft".
Any movie in which Chris Hemsworth does not take off his shirt is a waster of time.
My worst movies of the year: Everybody Wants Some!!, The Neon Demon and Fantastic Creatures. And while I know there are plenty worse out there, I lack the time, money and desire to check out Collateral Beauty or Suicide Squad to verify this hunch.
I also liked Nocturnal Animals, Deadpool and King Cobra, which I see being bad-mouthed here and loved The BFG.
I imagine most people on here didn't sit through Hardcore Henry because THAT was excruciating.
I also really hated The Hollars.
Garfield's Hacksaw performance honestly reminded me of....Tootsie for most of it. The quivering high pitched southern accent. Ugh.
Worst movies of the year:
Dirty Grandpa
Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice
Passengers
X-Men: Apocalypse
Suicide Squad
Allegiant
Chevalier (Sooooo boring)
I am very confused by the reception to Nocturnal Animals. Why again do people keep saying that the book-within-the-movie is so bad? I thought it was riveting. I mean, its plot is not unlike numerous Oscar contenders that people ate up (No Country for Old Men + Prisoners, anyone?) and was alternately tense (scenes on the side of the road) and hilarious (Michael Shannon).
I also happen to think that the Emperor is indeed wearing clothes-- a nice new Tom Ford suit, in fact-- and don't see why people find the movie meaningless. Sometimes you give up a good thing for a more appealing one, only to find out that the seemingly more appealing one actually leaves you miserable. What's so wrong with that message?
What was so vague about Midnight Special? I thought it was pretty straightforward.
Each performance Jlaw gives gets worse. I can't blame her for Passengers, though. The directing was so shitty even Meryl couldn't save it.
Worst 5 films I saw:
King Cobra - the most bloodless 'erotic' thriler imaginable
Sully - seriously guys... I don't understand this. It's the same (faintly tacky) 8 minute movie being repeated over and over again until everyone arbitrarily starts congratulating each other. And Laura Linney gets to spend ALL of it on the phone
The Birth of a Nation - I could tell Nate Parker was an atrocious actor in Beyond the Lights. Now I know he is also a laughable writer and director. Such a shame, because there was incredible material here. And you make a good point above about its treatment of women
Mountains May Depart - dear critics: how much denial goes into pretending a filmmaker you love didn't just make an absolute turd you would laugh at if absolutely *anybody* else's name were attached to it? Oh, it was all 'intentional parody of melodrama', you say? Even the teary "Dad, sometimes I feel like Google Translate is your son!"? Mm-hm... I bet it was
and though I technically saw worse films, I would have two assaults on women tie for the fifth spot:
- Everybody Wants Some - because we totally need to spend two more hours of our lives basking in the white-frat-dude worldview
- Nocturnal Animals - isn't it soo delicious getting back at your bitch of an ex by turning your revenge rape fantasy into a novel for her to read?
Just finished reading Vanity Fair's glossy cover story on J. Law (entitled...J. Law!), and that's probably as close as I'll get to Passengers at this point. For one, it looks dull. For another, the reviews are deadly. Finally, that title for the movie itself is a bad omen. (Remember when a post-The Devil Wears Prada/pre-Rachel Getting Married Anne Hathaway did a Passengers film herself? That one was DOA, went straight to DVD.)
Worst films - (and I only see films I think will be good, so there's no DC movies, or obviously shitty sequels here).
Star Trek Beyond - formulaic CGI-fest with a terrible villain that turned formerly at least somewhat cerebral series into The Space and the Furious. Critics gave it 82 RT. It was shit.
Magnificent 7 - oy vey what a clunky, humorless by the numbers laundry line of a movie. Goes so methodically through checking its boxes it forgets to make even the usual well-worn-but satisfying-tropes, well, satisfying.
A Monster Calls - sure, Bayona is talented, and The Orphanage was great, but I really, really wish he'd stop making self important hollowly sentimental oscar bait (see also The Impossible) and just be the great pulp director he could be. This movie was just one long pretentious eye roll from beginning to end, with every emotional moment smothered in violins and signposted a mile away. Go make a Jurassic sequel, dude, it's where you belong (and I actually mean that in a nice way. He'll make a killer JP flick.)
Like Daniel H., I only try to see movies that I think will be good. Unfortunately most of them end up being pretty pedestrian.
Finding Dory - a derivative sequel with no laughs; Pixar continues to disappoint.
Neighbours 2 - I like that they tried to make this one a feminist version of the original, but they ditch that idea pretty quickly. Some decent laughs, but inconsistently so.
Money Monster - lightweight. If you're going to make a movie about WAll street, you need a little more teeth.
I actually really liked "Nocturnal Animals". Shannon was brilliant, top notch cinematography, editing and music score. Tom Ford IMO did a great job both as a director and as a screenwriter.
Not a fan of "Birth of a Nation", "Neon Demon", "Other People", "BFG", "Nina", "Life Animated", "A Woman's Life" and "Marguerite".
@ Daniel H. - I totally forgot about Star Trek: Beyond. You are so right. That movie was a complete mess.
That had to be a tight race in "Terrible or Brilliant" between The Neon Demon and The Dressmaker, right? I would have called it a tie and showed off the pretty pretty costumes and makeup for a few pictures and moved on.
Daniel H and CharlieG: KRALL was a mess, yes. Even people who like Beyond have to admit that. But everything outside of Krall? Is pretty close to the Star Trek IV side of the franchise.
chasm301: Hardcore Henry? Here's the thing: Based on what I've heard of it, NO ONE with the context (aka: Actually having played first person shooters) is going to call that terrible. So, if you didn't even have the context, why did you think it was necessary to watch?
Chasm301 - Just the trailer for Hardcore Harry gave me a migraine. I think that mistake will need a special category of "Worst"
I'm SO with you on "Sing" and other movies that I don't want to watch but have to when they end up being Oscar nominated. I remember last year thinking "Thank god "Black Mass" wasn't nominated, now I don't have to watch it" lol.
I really don't get all the hate on Nocturnal Animals. If it's The Neon Demon, I will not be surprised even though I kind of like it.
Worst movie of the year: HACKshaw Ridge. I walked out after an hour of cringing. At least I didn't pay for the admission. The internet is packed with bloggers predicting Gibson for Best Director. He hasn't won a single critics award this season. It will be an insult to the artists Jenkins, Chazelle, Lonergan, Villeneuve, Larrain, Mackenzie, Arnold, Mills, if he gets a nod and they are MIA.
I agree with Nat on Best Director - all 5 will be 1st time nominees. IMO, no one comes even close to the masterpiece created by Jenkins.
^I hated Hacksaw Ridge, too - I wish I had walked out of the film!
So many bad film this year:
Hacksaw Ridge
Neon Demon
Dr. Strange.
The Girl On The Train.
Bad Moms
Alice Through The Looking Glass
Mike And Dave Need Wedding Dates
Blair Witch
The Magnificent Seven
Passengers
Warcraft
Wiener-Dog
X-Men Apocalypse
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Out Of The Shadows
Cell
The Darkness
Now You See Me 2
Neighbors 2
Suicide Squad
Ghostbusters
Money Monster
The Huntsman
Criminal
The Boss
Legend Of Tarzan
Risen
Brothers Grimsby
Allegiant
Batman V Superman
Ride Along 2
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Get A Job
London Has Fallen
Gods Of Egypt
Pride And Prejudice and Zombies
Zoolander 2
How To Be Single
The 5th Wave
The Choice
Independence Day 2
The Infiltrator
Blood Father
Mechanic Resurrection
Nocturnal Animals is the worst film of 2016, absolutely. I hated it so much.
Ulrich, Mark Gordon, Mareko, etc.: I think that in Passengers Jennifer Lawrence did what the director told her and that her acting would have been better if she had been allowed to use her own talent and instincts.