Bad movies of 2019
Joker Todd Phillips' grim - 'n' - gritty take on the origin of Batman's most famous foe took the top prize at the Venice Film Festival, earned the admiration of plenty of critics and directors, and may or may not have received a B- grade in our official review. But it loathed strongly enough by a sufficiently sizable number of contributors to land itself on this list, and so scornful attention must be paid. Somewhere between the toothless attempts at provocation (blacking out the middle two words of a "don't forget to smile!" sign has a strong "Marilyn Monroe Now Going Door-To-Door Trying To Shock People" energy). Its anger is an impotent, irrelevant anger, the rage of a tween. After Good art can come from anywhere, an important truth that unfortunately sometimes encourages crap like After , a movie based on a YA novel that began as One Direction fan-fiction seemingly inspired by Fifty Shades Of Grey , which itself was rewritten Twiligh...