My 10 Worst Movies of 2024

While 2024 has been a great year for cinema, there has still been a number of new releases that have fallen way short of the mark. I often avoid those that have been given bad press, with universal negative reviews, but some still manage to slip through the cracks, some of which being a result of disappointment more than anything. This has seen the like of “Joker: Folie a Deux” become overhated this past year, and while I found it to be troublesome, it is not close to being one of the worst movies of the year.

Films widely considered to be amongst the worst of the year that I have not watched include; “Kraven the Hunter”, “Madame Web”, “Borderlands”, “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2”, “Mickey’s Mouse Trap” and “Reagan”, among others, so don’t expect any of these to appear on my list.

Let me know some of you least favourite movies of the year in the comments, my ten worst films of 2024 are as follows:

10. Mean Girls

Dir: Samantha Jayne, Arturo Perez Jr.

Cast: Angourie Rice, Renee Rapp, Auli’i Cravalho, Christopher Briney

Synopsis: New student Cady Heron gets welcomed into the top of the social food chain by an elite group of popular girls called the Plastics, ruled by the conniving queen bee Regina George. However, when Cady makes the major misstep of falling for Regina’s ex-boyfriend, she soon finds herself caught in their crosshairs.

9. Argylle

Dir: Matthew Vaughn

Cast: Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell, Bryan Cranston, Catherine O’Hara, Dua Lipa, Ariana DeBose, John Cena, Samuel L. Jackson

Synopsis: Reclusive author Elly Conway writes best-selling espionage novels about a secret agent named Argylle who’s on a mission to unravel a global spy syndicate. However, when the plots of her books start to mirror the covert actions of a real-life spy organization, the line between fiction and reality begin to blur.

8. Megalopolis

Dir: Francis Ford Coppola

Cast: Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Kathryn Hunter, Dustin Hoffman

Synopsis: A conflict between Cesar, a genius artist who seeks to leap into a utopian, idealistic future, and his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero, who remains committed to a regressive status quo, perpetuating greed, special interests, and partisan warfare.

7. Jackpot!

Dir: Paul Feig

Cast: Awkwafina, John Cena, Ayden Mayeri, Donald Elise Watkins, Sam Asghari, Simu Liu

Synopsis: In the near future, a ‘Grand Lottery’ has been newly established in California – the catch: kill the winner before sundown to legally claim their multi-billion dollar jackpot.

6. Our Little Secret

Dir: Stephen Herek

Cast: Lindsay Lohan, Ian Harding, Tim Meadows, Jon Rudnitsky, Henry Czerny, Judy Reyes, Chris Parnell, Kristin Chenoweth

Synopsis: After discovering their significant others are siblings, two resentful exes must spend Christmas under one roof while hiding their romantic history.

5. Imaginary

Dir: Jeff Wadlow

Cast: DeWanda Wise, Tom Payne, Taegan Burns, Pyper Braun, Veronica Falcon, Betty Buckley

Synopsis: When Jessica moves back into her childhood home with her family, her youngest stepdaughter, Alice, finds a stuffed bear named Chauncey. As Alice’s behavior becomes more and more concerning, Jessica intervenes only to realize that Chauncey is much more than the stuffed toy bear she believed him to be.

4. Night Swim

Dir: Bryce McGuire

Cast: Wyatt Russell, Kerry Condon

Synopsis: Forced into early retirement by a degenerative illness, former baseball player Ray Waller moves into a new house with his wife and two children. He hopes that the backyard swimming pool will be fun for the kids and provide physical therapy for himself. However, a dark secret from the home’s past soon unleashes a malevolent force that drags the family into the depths of inescapable terror.

3. Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver

Dir: Zack Snyder

Cast: Sofia Boutella, Djimon Hounsou, Ed Skrein, Michiel Huisman, Doona Bae, Ray Fisher, Anthony Hopkins

Synopsis: A colony on the edge of the galaxy fights for survival against a tyrannical ruling force, relying on the efforts of a small group of rebels.

2. Unfrosted

Dir: Jerry Seinfeld

Cast: Jerry Seinfeld, Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan, Max Greenfield, Hugh Grant, Amy Schumer

Synopsis: In 1963, Kellogg’s and Post, sworn cereal rivals, race to create a pastry that will change the face of breakfast forever.

1. Lift

Dir: F. Gary Gray

Cast: Kevin Hart, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Vincent D’Onofrio, Ursula Corbero, Billy Magnussen, Jacob Batalon, Jean Reno, Sam Worthington

Synopsis: A master thief is wooed by his ex-girlfriend and the FBI to pull off an impossible heist with his international crew on a 777 passenger flight from London to Zurich.

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