The research team conducted a big data study of 15,425 U.S. - produced
films listed in the Internet Movie Database (IMDb).
It routinely ends up on just about everyone's top horror
film list.
The films listed below have been cited by a variety of notable critics in varying media sources as being among the worst films ever made.
Note that
some films listed below do not have any reported box office grosses; these films were primarily or exclusively released on VOD in North America (and / or had such a negligible theatrical presence that box office figures were not reported).
Note that
some films listed below do not have any reported box office grosses; these films were primarily released on VOD in the U.S. (and while all of them did also play in at least one theater for at least one screening, there wasn't enough of a theatrical release to have box office figures reported).
Having won the Golden Lion at this year's Venice International Film Festival and a Special Filmmaking Achievement Award (but no mention in the ten best
films list) from the National Board of Review, Sofia Coppola's Somewhere is one of the more highly anticipated independent releases of December, especially if you liked her previous films.
Now Sam didn't start with the two
films I listed, he evolved into the «shocking and cool and new».
I don't find his childish humour or annoying voices amusing in the slightest and Little Nicky has to be near the top of my most hated
films list (particularly cos it features so many cameos of respected performers).
I probably missed a few, as I was only able to see about 20 of the films at the festival (which is not a lot, since it is possible to see nearly 40 over the festival's 8 days), but suffice it to say, if you're a canine lover, be wary of all
the films listed above.
After rewatching this, I'm considering revising my top 10 favorite
films list.
It has been on every «best of» comedy
film list and is well recognized by critics.
Other films just missing the cut: Oliver really loved «Miss Violence» at the Venice film festival and it made his five best
films list (review here).
Check out the horror
films list that we have gathered for you below.
Two Woody Allen films have made their way into two new Top 100
film lists.
On the best British
film list, Francis Lee's terrific God's Own Country has a much - deserved nomination: a complex love story between two people and a love story between those two people and the Yorkshire countryside.
As far as snubs go, I was disappointed to see that my personal favourite of the year, Armando Iannucci's The Death of Stalin, was not on the best
film list as well as best British film.
Believe it or not (I choose not to), but it's hard to avoid seeing the parallels to the plots of
the films I listed, above.
Many
films listed are the official submissions and shortlists for the Foreign Language Film Oscar at next year's Academy Awards.
On a first viewing I felt it wasn't as rousing as what I expected from Tarantino but then Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction instantly catapulted themselves into my favourite
films list.
But that in itself is revealing: what 20 years ago would have been a cliched, paranoid cyber-thriller now feels like
a filmed list of sober facts — a sign of how much the world has changed.
Given the rarity of the Best Actress / Best Picture double, you could actually turn this eleven -
film list into a kind of Oscar - season binge, taking down all eleven films, all of which are available to either stream or rent.
Though this year brought us the amazing
films listed below, it also brought us Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, The Other Side of the Door, The Forest, and 31.
Luca Guadagnino's lavish queer drama «Call Me By Your Name» topped the best
films list, with David Lowery's playfully supernatural «A Ghost Story» and Dee Rees» postwar tale of racial prejudice in the south, «Mudbound,» nipping at its heels.
(I may add links to reviews of
films listed here.)
If you think Top Ten
film lists are arbitrary, try putting together a «best of» for DVD and Blu - ray.
Nine or 10 Best Picture nominees Not only is «Beauty and the Beast» the only animated film to be nominated for Best Picture in a year with only five Best Picture nominees, but the creation of the Best Animated Feature category has made it all - but - impossible for any other animated film to crack a five -
film list.
Overall, then, while Quantum of Solace won't be making any top ten best
films lists for 2008, it is in no way a bad film.
Someone may adore one of
the films listed above but hate another for the same reasons.
Any film listed in the same filmography as Magnolia and There Will Be Blood has a high standard to live up to; however, Vice doesn't share too much in common with PTA's most notable works, aside from its California setting.
I seriously doubt that you managed to see all 31
films I listed and you dissed to actually make a judgment (and anybody listing a bunch of films not from 2014 is going to have their judgment called into question anyway, as you realized when you edited your post to move Tangerines to 2015 and include» (or earlier)» to cover your butt... and actually undermine your argument).
It was only a month ago that I wrote about Takashi Miike's latest incredible film, the thrilling samurai epic «Blade of the Immortal,» which earned a place on my top ten
films list of last year.
It should come as no shock that the villain is the true hero of Warlock, as was the case in almost all of the horror
films listed above.
Needless to say, as someone who has seen all 10
films listed above, this slate has both sins of omission and sins of commission, in my opinion, but we'll be getting into that more in the coming weeks.
San Francisco Examiner movie critics Jeff Anderson and Anita Katz both included «Detroit,» director Kathryn Bigelow's drama about racism and riots in the city in 1967, on their «best of 2017»
film lists.
However, Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missourri leads
the film list with four nominations for Frances McDormand, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson and Ensemble.
Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards leads
film list for Screen Actors Guild Awards as Saoirse Ronan bags another nom
It also would have helped justify the standard $ 29.99 new
film list price (which Disney has gone back to after a $ 26.99 Double Feature DCOM disc last spring).
Read Matt Zoller Seitz's Top 10
films list with notes here.
But while it was included as # 44 in the American Film Institute's greatest American
films list, this is definitely not a movie for the masses.
On the Internet Movie Database's hip and modern - skewing top - rated
films list, it currently ranks 38th, just above long - championed works Taxi Driver, Vertigo, and Lawrence of Arabia.
Best Ensemble: The Big Short Lowdown: Interesting considering it didn't make the top 10
film list.
Only grosses up until December 31, 2013 are included, and a lot of
films listed could see a considerable amount of their grosses still come in 2014.
What we do know is that a consensus is forming and
the films listed above, with the possible exception of Sicario, are that consensus one the one side of the room.
The most striking thing about this year's slate of BFCA nominations is that, to go by
the films listed in the various categories, apparently there were only 30 or so movies released this year.
The Coen Brothers spin one of their finest yarns (I place it third behind O Brother Where Art Thou and No Country For Old Men, which still leaves it really darn high in my overall
film list), proving why they're the masters of the everyday macabre.
Dogville (Lars von Trier, Denmark)(3, unreleased
films list) 33.
I don't think Mandy Lane is going to give anyone any murderous ideas, and I don't think it belongs on any banned
film list.
I realise that this is a poll originating in the UK, and am not surprised at the plethora of US
films listed, but hey — is there no love for «My Cousin Vinny»?
Ah, the assembly of the annual worst -
films list.
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