THE 10 WORST
JUST DON'T
1. THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS
An all-time low in mirthless farce as Melissa McCarthy and Henson family puppets trade dick jokes while audiences are condemned to movie hell.
2. GOTTI
A zero-percent satisfaction rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes seems too kind a response to John Travolta’s career-crushing gangster epic.
3. LIFE ITSELF
Can a movie be all bad? This pretentious soap from This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman proves that, yes, it really can.
4. JURASSIC WORLD:
FALLEN KINGDOM
A shameless cash grab that proves even CGI dinosaurs can be abused. Enough, already.
5. MAMMA MIA!
HERE WE GO AGAIN
No diss on Cher (we love her!), but even Meryl Streep had the sense to barely show up in this sequel from ABBA’s B side.
6. THE MEG
Usually I’d be all in to watch a giant shark take on Jason Statham. But The Meg is not dumb enough to be any fun.
7. RED SPARROW
What’s happening to Jennifer Lawrence? Mega-bad choices. Playing a Bolshoi ballerinaturned-unlikely-spy spelled disaster. Save her, somebody.
8. THE NUN
Rinsing and recycling scare tactics from The Conjuring does not a horror classic make, though sitting through it does constitute a form of torture.
9. FIFTY SHADES FREED
For the third and last time, Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan whip each other into the least-erotic frenzy ever.
10. VENOM
To those who claim a movie can’t suck if it’s big box office, I submit this PG-13 desecration of a nightmare-dark Marvel antihero, one that wastes the talents of the great Tom Hardy.