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Life Itself - Official Trailer - Amazon Studios_ by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Dec 13, 2018 12:00 PM UTC  The Kissing Booth; Gotti; Tag The Kissing Booth; Gotti; TagNetflix; Everett (2) by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Dec 13, 2018 12:00 PM UTC Lady Gaga’s aspiring pop star in _A Star Is Born_ isn’t the only one who was “off the deep end” this year. Yet unlike Ally—who finds success, fame and an Orange Crush-inspired hairdo—the movies below never quite took off, let alone made it up for air. Here are TIME’s picks for the worst movies of 2018. ## _10\. Sierra Burgess Is a Loser_ A millennial take on Cyrano de Bergerac, the film is more like an episode of _Catfish_, with the titular nerdy heroine (or should we say anti-heroine) going to cringe-worthy, problematic lengths to make her crush, a popular quarterback, believe that he’s having a deep text correspondence with the requisite mean girl cheerleader. To keep up the charade, Sierra not only catfishes her crush but does despicable things to indulge her infatuation with him—like faking a disability, cyberbullying, disregarding consent and abandoning the real relationships that are actually in her life. Poor writing doesn’t help the movie’s flawed plot, with troubling sentiments about queer, trans and disabled folks thrown in irresponsibly amid a clichéd, overcrowded and underdeveloped storyline. Not even the earnest charms of tried-and-true Netflix darlings Shannon Purser and Noah Centineo can woo viewers into rooting for this toxic romance. Sierra Burgess is a loser, but it’s not for the reasons she thinks. ## _9\. Unsane_ Steven Soderbergh is one of the most innovative directors working today: Earlier this year, he released a [TV series](http://time.com/5107492/sharon-stone-steven-soderbergh-mosaic/) accompanied by an interactive mobile app. For shooting _Unsane_ entirely on iPhones and proving to aspiring, resource-limited filmmakers everywhere that storytelling doesn’t require millions, he deserves heaps of credit. If only the story here weren’t so egregiously mismatched with the cultural moment into which it was released. The harrowing ordeal of a woman (Claire Foy) who is sexually assaulted, tortured, stalked, gaslighted, involuntarily committed and trapped without recourse is one few not-unsane people have an appetite for in the midst of the #MeToo movement (if ever). Buried beneath all that might be an incisive critique of mental health services in the U.S., but the villains are too cartoonish and the plot too outlandish to deliver a credible warning call. ## **_8\. Gotti_** _Gotti_ is one of those movies that’s too much and not enough all at once. Too much acting, too many plot points, too fervent _fuhgeddaboutits_. But instead of adding up to a coherent whole, it’s as empty as a tumbler of [Cutty Sark whiskey](https://www.vice.com/en%5Fus/article/kwxk8z/what-type-of-booze-did-famous-mobsters-drink-666) in the hand of the Teflon Don himself. Nowhere to be found are the characters’ motivations, nor much explanation as to why this mobster is more deserving of two hours of our time than any other. Blame the screenplay, or the rotating Rolodex of directors and producers it saw over its nearly decade-long development. Either way, John Travolta’s storied New York mafioso is more total pan than made man. We’re gonna make you an offer you can’t refuse: skip it. ## **_7\. Destination Wedding_** In their fourth movie together, Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves play two hopeless misanthropes thrust together by fate—and the wedding of her ex, who happens to be his brother. It’s entirely a two-hander—none of the targets of the pair’s misanthropy is given any dialogue—which might sound like a point in its favor, given the actors’ individual charms and chemistry together. Unfortunately, when what is meant to serve as entertaining banter consists of nothing but despondent, dejected, narcissistic grievances, viewers may find themselves pressing pause in favor of the pair’s work together in _Dracula_ or _A Scanner Darkly_. ## _6\. Peppermint_ It’s not easy to make Jennifer Garner unlikable, but this cringy story of a suburban mom avenging the deaths of her family at the hands of a Mexican drug cartel somehow manages to. While the premise—an affable suburban mom turns vigilante killer—sounds like the stuff of a fun thriller, Peppermint wastes it with lazy writing and a formulaic plot. To make things worse, the underlying racial dynamics of the film—Garner’s white American mother guns down menacing Mexican criminals—are troubling at best and deeply problematic at worst. ## _5\. Midnight Sun_ Midnight Sun is what you’d get if you fed A Walk to Remember through a Make-it-Worse machine. Bella Thorne plays Katie, a girl with Xeroderma Pigmentosum (XP), a rare genetic disorder that makes her extremely sensitive to sunlight. While XP is real, it’s grossly exaggerated in the film, which claims that briefest exposure to direct sunlight would be so catastrophic that it would cause Katie’s brain to fail. Things get complicated when Katie is asked out by longtime crush Charlie (Patrick Schwarzenegger), a young man who loves the very daytime activity of sailing. Not to spoil anything, but when the Chekhov’s gun is literally the sun, you can probably guess what happens. Midnight Sun is not only a hacky cliché, but XP advocates found its portrayal of their condition to be offensively inaccurate. ## _4\. The Kissing Booth_ The star of Netflix’s hugely popular teen movie is always, somehow, finding herself in situations where she’s taking off her clothes—and it’s never in some owning-her-body type of way. She’s just trying to get a rise out of the very boys who are slut-shaming her at every turn. It would be one thing if _The Kissing Booth_ was just another cliché-filled romantic comedy—and it is certainly that—but it’s another that it is so blatantly sexist. ## _3\. Tag_ A promising comedic cast and an intriguing real-life premise go to waste as the writers try to jam heartwarming sentiment into a film that should have just been a romp about man-children playing a game of tag. The result is a movie that puzzlingly celebrates self-centered, violent jerks. By the end, the filmmakers are daring you to like these insecure tag-players even as they interrupt weddings and funerals. Bad news: You don’t. ## **_2\. The Happytime Murders_** The Muppets are indisputably among America’s most wholesome national treasures. And that’s no reason why their likeness shouldn’t be used for raunchy satire. Perhaps it’s all the _more_ reason—after all, _Avenue Q_ ran for six years on Broadway and continues to tour worldwide. But _The Happytime Murders_ fails not because it’s blasphemous (and it is, in spades). Director and _Sesame Street_ scion Brian Henson misses the mark here because his bawdy, adolescent gags, though delivered by comedic veterans like Melissa McCarthy and Maya Rudolph, are wielded in service of… nothing. If there’s an allegory to be made in this noirish murder mystery, it’s lying at the bottom of a pool of puppet ejaculate. ## _1\. Life Itself_ Dan Fogelman holds your feelings hostage in this morbid melodrama that prioritizes sentimentality over coherent storytelling. Fogelman, the creator of _This Is Us,_ has taken all the wrong lessons from that show’s success. _Life Itself_ has all the markers of a weepie—doomed love, death, orphaned children—but doesn’t bother to develop its characters. Instead he eviscerates them in disturbingly violent ways, and then forces the audiences to watch their deaths over and over again. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5475506/worst-movies-2018/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5475506/worst-movies-2018/"},"headline":"The 10 Worst Movies of 2018","datePublished":"2018-12-13T12:00:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T22:14:23.471Z","description":"From 'The Happytime Murders' to 'Life Itself'","url":"https://time.com/5475506/worst-movies-2018/","keywords":["movies","onetime","Best of Everything 2018"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcbc072f5f8d59f2b/698941344ee262b927313917/worst-movies-20181.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME 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