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Though movie review aggregators have court a bit ofcontroversyin the preceding year , they ’re still an indispensable tool for polling the opinion of the public and professional critic likewise regarding the virtue of any film that hopes to get fire at the box office .
Among these , Rotten Tomatoesremains the gold standard : able to make or break any flick with its " attest new " evaluation , which has come to be regarded as an industry - recognized stamp of approval . Every class , however , a bevy of celluloid receive the dreaded " rotten " recording label , but only a handful fall below the 20th centile and an even smaller number are for good saddle with the 0 % rating . Here are ten of the worst movie of 2018 , according to the web site .
The Darkest Minds: 17%
This adaption of Alexandra Bracken ’s teenaged dystopian novel is n’t less a comforting film than a feature - length board setting ( pharynx clearing may be more like it ) for a enfranchisement that likely wo n’t come .
Audiences already fatigued from post - apocalyptical kiddie fable on the big screen likeThe Hunger GamesandDivergentseries turned their back on it , and critics saw through the final merchandise to the money - hungry intentions behind this entirely derivative production .
Truth or Dare: 16%
In a seeming experiment to try mark - allegiance , Blumhouse ’s Truth or Dareput the reigning horror studio apartment ’s name right there in the title to sell this turkey to consultation who could smell its malodor a mi away .
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And it worked : the film was a box office success , grossing $ 95 million worldwide against its $ 3.5 million production budget , while critic were exclusively unenthused by what they considered a for the most part meek , pigment - by - numbers weirdie show .
Robin Hood: 15%
It seems that every coevals gets a new , more and more worse variant of the tights - wearing robber of the rich . in earnest , just by graph the average critic score from the character ’s apex of the sun’s way as a mustachioed Errol Fynn in 1938 ( 100 % fresh ) on down through Disney ’s brute - only adaptation in 1973 ( 52 % ) , to Kevin Costner ’s 1991 misfire , Prince of Thieves(51 % ) and the Ridley Scott ’s 2010 riff on the legend ( 41 % ) , the character has become the poster son for diminishing recurrence .
At the infrangible bottom of the cask , you ’ll find last year’sRobin Hood – a interpretation that plays tight and loose with the source material for an irritating , contemporary - flavour take on a classic property .
Life Itself: 13%
The runaway success of NBC’sThis Is Us , notwithstanding , author / manager Dan Fogelman has a report for authorise off the lugubrious as the profound , and this trend reach maximum crucifixion with this mawkish and manipulative silver screen debut .
This “ it ’s all connect ” melodrama was the burgeon Amazon Studios ’ first magnanimous loser , falling well - below its projected box - office gross in its premier hebdomad in the 2d bad porta since 1982 by a film that open up at over 2,500 theater . critic account it as “ cringe - worthy ” ” at best , “ misogynistic ” at worst , and Fogelman seems contented to blameanyone but himselffor the failure of his masterpiece of misery .
Fifty Shades Freed: 12%
The Rotten Tomatoes score for the abortive climax of the much maligned , much tweeted - about , S&M - for - the - go-cart - set series ties with the trilogy ’s middle entry , with both falling a number below the first film , which is practically sitting pretty ( comparatively ) at 25 % .
Though Dakota Johnson ’s turn as Anastasia Steele still receive the faintest extolment for go along this scantily watchable , critic were all too happy to observe the long - awaited death of a series that sold itself on spice but was at last flavourless and materialistic in its electronic messaging .
Peppermint: 12%
Jennifer Garner may have play the mom we all wish we had inLove , Simon , butPeppermintsquanders that warm maternal pathos in a dusty vigilante tale that dead blow her .
It may have done fair business at the box office , but critic found the motion picture ’s sociopolitical blindspots outright offensive ( similarly to Eli Roth ’s ill - advisedDeath Wishremake ) and direct out that Hollywood still , mystifying , seems unsure just how to make a female - lead action movie work .
Billionaire Boys Club: 7%
A butch offense trick that play likeWolf of Wall Street : The Next Generation , this film about a group of wealthy untried douches engaging in dirty peck and pestilent antic came and break down without a single note of fanfare .
Not only does it have the unpleasant distinction of being one of the last films made by Kevin Spacey before theaccusations against him gained earth , but its domestic opening weekend box power take of just $ 618 was the lowest of his career , making his fall from grace all but consummate .
Slender Man: 7%
This dead - on - reaching take on creepypasta ’s favoriteghoulwas panned by both audience and critic alike for its nonsensical narrative , one - dimensional characters , hapless effects and full deficiency of scares .
sum insult to injury , Sony wed up the sacking of an independent feature article , Flayto protect the rights to the character in a warlike sound move that looked plain farcical when audiences finally saw the final product that the indie was supposedly riding the coattails of .
211: 5%
Though Nicolas Cage mystify some of his best notices in late memory with Panos Cosmatos’Mandylast year , it just would n’t be a ten bad inclination without the infamously off - the - bulwark actor .
A direct - to - television actioner,211is bloated with bromide and caused Frank Scheck of the Hollywood Reporter tolament : " It ’s probably foolish to like that Nicolas Cage would once again make flick as estimable asAdaptationandLeaving Las Vegas . But is it too much to ask that he go back to the relative glory days ofCon AirandThe Rock ? . "
Gotti: 0%
2018 develop multiple photographic film that received the enceinte fathead egg from critics ( Reprisal , Father of the Year ) but none had the bombination ofGotti , an unmitigated disaster starring John Travolta as the notorious crime foreman .
This biopic not only failed to ferment a profits at the box office , but critics fret at the film ’s characterization of the brutal don as just another family guy – a smack in the typeface to the victims of his myriad criminal offence and their have sex ones .
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