The Best Rotten Tomatoes Reviews for the Worst Movies of 2019
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On Rotten Tomatoes, declarations from the web’s most esteemed film critics and enthusiasts are known to either utterly tarnish or heavily acclaim box-office successes with a mere sentence or two. Last year, Rotten Tomatoes showed us the most beloved movies of 2019, with Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite taking the #1 spot and gaining appraising critiques like:
“A film that always has two thoughts in its head at once, a spectacular epic and tightly wound chamber piece, chicly sophisticated, brutal as a hammer.”
— Danny Leigh, Financial Times
While everyone loves an Oscar-winner with a respected reputation, we know the despicable flops are where critics get to really shine. So, did our favorite fault-finders judge the worst-rated movies of 2019 with justice? The list below of the best Rotten Tomatoes reviews for some of the worst movies of 2019 speaks for itself:
The Curse of La Llorona: “A formulaic slab of supernatural dirge destined to be forgotten by year’s, or perhaps even month’s, end.”
— Benjamin Lee, The Guardian
The Fanatic: “This movie has no stance at all. It hates everyone — not the least of which are people with autism…it’s a wretched, offensive pile of junk.”
— Luke Parker, VoiceBoxOffice
The Escape Room: “The film is a knock-off construction with a bit of an identity crisis, marketed as horror but lacking either the Rube Goldberg ingenuity or sick verve of its genre bedfellows.”
— Tim Robey, Daily Telegraph (UK)
The Chaperone: “The Chaperone” is like telling the Tiger Woods story by choosing to focus on his first caddy. Sure, it’s a way in, but unless that caddy has a really good story, what are we doing here?
— Adam Graham, Detroit News
State Like Sleep: “About as thrilling as a power failure in Antarctica.”
— Rex Reed, The Observer
Tolkein: “If you’re going to tell the story of one of the most imaginative writing minds of the 20th century, why not infuse it with more … imagination?”
— Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times
The Addams Family: “Its celebration of misunderstood outsiderdom is too generic to amount to much more than a bargain-basement ‘Despicable Me’.”
— Philip De Semlyen, Time Out
The Haunting of Sharon Tate: “It’s far too early to call this the worst movie of the year. But if it’s not, it’s going to be a rough 2019.”
— William Bibbiani, TheWrap
Rambo: Last Blood: “John Rambo is as American as apple pie. Actually, maybe that’s too sweet a comparison. John Rambo is as American as a border wall. Yeah, that feels right.”
— Andrew F. Peirce, The Curb
The Goldfinch: “Ah, poor wussums. The Goldfinch is the kind of movie that you want to pick up and cuddle, and stroke its befuddled head, and say: “There, there, it’s all right, you did your best.”
— Kevin Maher, The Times (UK)
