5 WORST FILMS OF 2024
5. MEGALOPOLIS
Sorry to say, but Francis Ford Coppola’s passion project is a spectacular mess from start to finish. What we get is essentially a 2-hour-plus fever dream of a fable filled with unintentional laughs. Yes, the cringe is strong with this one. The purposely garish and dreamy visuals are admittedly impressive though, but the performances are more of a mixed bag. It’s not that anybody is especially “bad,” rather they all felt like they were in a different movie – each doing their own thing. As advertised, this film is 100% polarizing. So, have at it cinephiles, Megalopolis is ripe for your dissection.
4. HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON
Random in all the wrong ways, Carlos Saldanha’s Harold and the Purple Crayon will play best for the youngest of audiences. That’s because anyone over the age of, oh, say 6, will find it to be a rather charmless chore to get through. There’s a real awkwardness to it all, this thanks to the clunkiest of pacing and humor-challenged “jokes.” Unfortunately, the effects-heavy and narrative messy execution is going to leave you wishing Harold and the Purple Crayon had gone back to the drawing board.
3. BORDERLANDS
Eli Roth’s Borderlands is an unapologetic video game movie – for better or worse (who am I kidding - mostly worse). And just so I’m clear, I’m not talking about some of the more polished video game flicks of recent years. It’s more in the vein of late 90s/early 2000s video game movie flops. That is to say, it doesn’t quite get the translation down. Unless you’re a 12-year-old with a hankering for low quality wacky adventures with inept characters, this is just a colossal just a waste of time – and talent.
2. TAROT
Unfortunately for Tarot, it would appear an adequate horror movie was not in the cards. To be fair, it is watchable. Breeziness aside, the film suffers from being so – incredibly – predicable! Well, that and it’s full of non-stop eye-rolling nonsense. Ok, so I don’t think anyone was expecting a psychologically cerebral mind-bender from a movie about a cursed pack of Tarot cards, but still. Let’s just say that if you turn this one on at a slumber party, it’ll have no trouble putting the party to sleep.
1. MADAME WEB
Where to begin with Madame Web? For one, the movie spins out a web of unintentional laughs. And to be clear, it’s not that this film is a comedy in disguise, it’s just so obnoxiously dumb that you can’t help but laugh at the sheer ridiculousness on screen. There are plenty of problems with this Spider-Man adjacent superhero flick, but chief among them is the terrible dialogue. Oh, did I mention that it tries very hard to connect to Spidey and his mythos? You might even say it gets desperate by the end. Sadly for us, we’re desperate to forget we ever watched such an atrocity in the first place.
BOX OFFICE TOP 5
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Mufasa: The Lion King
$37.1 million
8.5
Nosferatu
$21.2 million