Fall of a Kingdom review – dull trudge through war and romance
Bear attacks and marauding hordes can’t rescue this dismal attempt to conjure up an epic medieval adventure - Ellen E Jones
starstarstarstarstarDeath of Me review – Thai-holiday thriller can't supply the scares
A couple wake up in their Airbnb with worrying thoughts about what happened the night before in a frustrating tale - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarPhilophobia review – pretentious and prurient coming-of-age story
This modern, Cotswolds-set teen movie has failed to learn the lessons of the past in its outdated attitudes to women, with little real insight on show - Ellen E Jones
starstarstarstarstarLegacy of Lies review – sappy action thriller undone by lack of smarts
Scott Adkins plays a violence-prone former spy turned bouncer in this tale of shootouts with a young daughter in tow - Ellen E Jones
starstarstarstarstarFrench Exit review – Michelle Pfeiffer can't save disastrous sinking souffle
A misjudged performance from the star is one of many bum notes in an irritating and indulgent story of rich people becoming less rich - Benjamin Lee
starstarstarstarstarMy Zoe review – Julie Delpy clones around to no one's amusement
Delpy mashes family drama with sci-fi thriller in a film hamstrung by its earnest absurdity - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Glorias review – Gloria Steinem biopic is a laughably shoddy mess
Julie Taymor’s film on the multiple life stages of the defining feminist turns what should be a fascinating character study into an embarrassing disaster - Adrian Horton
starstarstarstarstarHendrix and the Spook review – a poor way to honour Jimi
This documentary about the acclaimed guitarist is a cheaply made mix of interviews and dumbshow dramatic recreations - Leslie Felperin
starstarstarstarstarHard Kill review – Bruce Willis logs out in ultra-basic tech thriller
Willis reprises his role as cheque-cashing frontman in this mind-numbing actioner, also starring Jesse Metcalfe - Mike McCahill
starstarstarstarstarThe Tomb: Devil’s Revenge review – Shatner cursed in Indiana Jones-like horror
William Shatner attempts to destroy an ancient jinxed relic in this bizarre horror-thriller - Phil Hoad
starstarstarstarstarCoastal Elites review – is this the worst film of the year?
A range of stars, including Bette Midler and Issa Rae, act out clunky monologues in a tone-deaf attempt to speak to a divided America - Charles Bramesco
starstarstarstarstarBulletproof review – violent cops flout the rules. Is this meant to be fun?
This witlessly macho crime drama is tedious enough but asking us to sympathise with trigger-happy lawmen is beyond the pale - Cath Clarke
starstarstarstarstarSpy Intervention review – a film without a quantum of solace
Witless sexism masquerades as genre parody in this comedy thriller hopelessly devoid of comedy or thrills - Leslie Felperin
starstarstarstarstarFatal Affair review – cheap Netflix thriller plays the same old tune
An uninspired Fatal Attraction knock-off wastes a charismatic Nia Long on a script with zero surprises or tension - Benjamin Lee
starstarstarstarstarFinding the Way Back review – Ben Affleck redemption drama is far from a slam dunk
Affleck plays a depressed drinker whose life is rescued by becoming a basketball coach in this flat, uninspired fable - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarInheritance review – preposterous and paper-thin New York thriller
The daughter of a dead tycoon is cheated of her rightful millions and bequeathed a mysterious inhabited bunker in this implausible caper - Ellen E Jones
starstarstarstarstarIrresistible review – Jon Stewart’s political non-satire for liberals is as dull as it gets
Steve Carell is lacklustre as a political strategist for the Democrats in this flaccid film that sits on the fence - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Fanatic review – John Travolta plumbs the depths in grisly stalker flick
Travolta plays an isolated obsessive who tracks down his movie hero in this nasty drama, directed by former Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst - Leslie Felperin
starstarstarstarstarThe High Note review – a romantic comedy without romance or comedy
Young love has never seemed more lifeless than it does as this dreary drama lurches towards its nauseating finale - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarMore Beautiful for Having Been Broken review – utterly bizarre stilted soap opera
A big-city FBI agent retreats to the country in this bizarre, monumentally inept erotic thriller featuring a risible plot and jaw-droppingly bad acting - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarSpenser Confidential review – Mark Wahlberg crash lands on Netflix
The actor plays a justice-seeking ex-cop in a clumsy, unfunny adaptation of a much-loved literary crime series - Benjamin Lee
starstarstarstarstarImmortal Hero review – silly vanity project made in bad faith
The self-produced film by faith leader Ryuho Okawa is woefully misjudged and reveals the laughable reality behind Happy Science - Cath Clarke
starstarstarstarstarBrahms: The Boy II review – wilfully unscary evil doll horror
Katie Holmes is as bored as the audience in this lazy retread of the 2016 chiller about a havoc-causing doll - Benjamin Lee
starstarstarstarstarMy New York Year (aka My Salinger Year) review – bafflingly insipid literary memoir clunks hard
Based on Joanna Rakoff’s book, this simpering knock-off of The Devil Wears Prada is so wet you could shoot snipe off it - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarSpycies review – not so perfect spies
Naive animation and a clumsy ecological message - Simran Hans
starstarstarstarstarDolittle review – Robert Downey Jr does nothing in pointless remake
Deploying a terrible Welsh accent and surrounded by CGI-mouthed animals, the eccentric Victorian gent comes to the aid of the sickly queen - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarHow I Became a Gangster. True Story review – dire, derivative mob caper
Based on real events, this story of Polish gangsters fighting each other and abusing women is self-important and cliche-ridden - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Goop Lab review – so Gwyneth Paltrow doesn’t know what a vagina is
Like the star’s wellness brand, this whole show is a demented paean to self-indulgence. And for someone peddling health treatments, she seems alarmingly ignorant about anatomy - Lucy Mangan
starstarstarstarstarPlaying With Fire review – so unfunny it will extinguish your will to live
A mix of gung-ho firefighting, cutesy kids and inept comic timing extinguishes the will to live - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarCats review – will haunt viewers for generations
No amount of A-list stars can save Tom Hooper’s dire adaptation - Simran Hans
starstarstarstarstarJojo Rabbit review – Taika Waititi's Hitler comedy is intensely unfunny
A bullied 10-year-old makes imaginary friends with a cheeky Führer with no hilarious consequences in this schmaltzy satire - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarCats review – a purr-fectly dreadful hairball of woe
The queasy fears prompted by one of the most disturbing movie trailers ever seen are realised in full in Tom Hooper’s jaw-dropping feline folly - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Courier review – dreary action-thriller fails to deliver
After saving the life of a trial witness, biker Olga Kurylenko goes on the run from Gary Oldman’s super-dull supervillain - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarBlack Christmas review – woke slasher remake is an unholy, unscary mess
The second attempt to resurrect the 1974 campus-set horror is a well-intentioned yet ultimately unconvincing modernisation - Benjamin Lee
starstarstarstarstarCharlie's Angels review – a pointless, unfunny, brain-deadening dud
This new reboot of the 70s TV series, with Kristen Stewart as one of the ass-kicking agents, fatally lacks style – and laughs - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarLast Christmas review – cliched festive failure
George Michael’s music is wasted in Paul Feig’s comedy of excruciating life lessons - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarLast Christmas review – a grisly, sub-Richard Curtis festive pudding
This shameless attempt by screenwriter Emma Thompson to siphon off the eggnog flavour from Love Actually is clunky and weird - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarRed Devil review – sex, drugs and far from droll
A lamentable dearth of laughs infects this comedy-fantasy set in a nightmarish dystopia where everyone is high on something - Leslie Felperin
starstarstarstarstarAfter the Wedding review – basically, it's Eat Pray Love 2
An insufferable, implausible and treacly romantic-drama, with Michelle Williams running an orphanage in India and Julianne Moore as her benefactor - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Beach Bum review – Harmony Korine reaches a Zen state of unfunny
Matthew McConaughey is insufferable as a stoner poet in Korine’s awful non-comedy, which also features Isla Fisher, Snoop Dogg, Jonah Hill and Zac Efron - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarRattlesnake review – disposable supernatural Netflix thriller lacks bite
Carmen Ejogo is a mother forced to make a horrifying sacrifice in a staggeringly dull film bereft of suspense, creativity and purpose - Benjamin Lee
starstarstarstarstarCountdown review – hapless haunted app horror should be uninstalled
Final Destination gets an unofficial smartphone reboot in a lazy and entirely unscary slab of schlock focused on an app that predicts your time of death - Benjamin Lee
starstarstarstarstarGemini Man review – Will Smith out-performs his younger self
All the digital de-ageing technology in the world can’t make this silly sci-fi thriller about a cloned hitman convincing - Simran Hans
starstarstarstarstarRambo: Last Blood review – cheap and nasty carnage
An unwelcome addition to the franchise - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarThe Kitchen review – one film, three career lows
Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish and Elisabeth Moss are squandered in this dire crime flick - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarRambo: Last Blood review – Stallone storms Mexico in a laughable Trumpian fantasy
The grizzled warrior dusts off his crossbow to take revenge on sex traffickers in a creaking, cringeworthy fifth instalment - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarAmerican Son review – Kerry Washington can't save Netflix misfire
A well-intentioned adaptation of the Broadway show about race in America suffers from unconvincing characters and risible dialogue - Peter Bradshaw in Toronto
starstarstarstarstarRadioactive review – Rosamund Pike flounders in toxic Marie Curie biopic
Persepolis director Marjane Satrapi has made a stuffy and patronising drama that does a great disservice to its undeniably fascinating subject - Charles Bramesco in Toronto
starstarstarstarstarKillers Anonymous review – Gary Oldman fires blanks in deathly yarn
Obscurity beckons for this pitifully plotted ensemble piece about an assassins’ support group - Leslie Felperin
starstarstarstarstarThe Art of Racing in the Rain review – a canine car crash
Kevin Costner voices a golden retriever who inspires a would-be racing driver - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarPlaymobil: The Movie review – a fake plastic copy
The German toy brand tries and fails to emulate Lego’s big screen success - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarThe Kitchen review – star cast can't save undercooked DC Comics disaster
Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish and Elisabeth Moss struggle to rise above a cartoonish and shoddily constructed crime drama - Benjamin Lee
starstarstarstarstarStuber review – nothing to see here
A shortsighted cop and his put-upon Uber driver make a painfully unfunny odd couple - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarShaft review – regressive sequel swaps out style for ugly homophobia
Samuel L Jackson returns in the latest take on the 70s detective to unleash a toxic stream of bigotry in a misjudged attack on millennial masculinity - Benjamin Lee
starstarstarstarstarMen in Black: International review – a galactically gormless fall to earth
This latest outing for the government agents tasked with policing pesky space invaders is a charmless and pointless affair - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarGodzilla: King of the Monsters review – beastly in all the wrong ways
The latest in the creature-feature franchise dents the reptile’s reputation - Simran Hans
starstarstarstarstarDomino review – atrocious thriller is new low for Brian De Palma
The veteran film-maker races to the bottom with an astonishingly amateurish crime thriller that bores, frustrates and bewilders in equal measure - Benjamin Lee
starstarstarstarstarThe Hustle review – Anne Hathaway kills the comedy in dire scam caper
A gender-switch reboot of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels co-starring Rebel Wilson is catastrophically unfunny - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarPoms review – Diane Keaton turns cheerleader in cheer-free comedy
A frothy tale of retirees starting a cheerleading group wastes the talents of its cast and fails to provide the crowd-pleasing moments it so desperately needs - Benjamin Lee
starstarstarstarstarBel Canto review – vacuous hostage drama
Julianne Moore plays an opera singer trapped in South America in a tepid adaptation of Ann Patchett’s bestseller - Simran Hans
starstarstarstarstarIron Sky: The Coming Race review – woeful return of the lunar refugees
In this baffling sci-fi fantasy sequel, a rag-tag crew of adventurers encounter dinosaurs and reptilian Nazis at the centre of the Earth - Sophie Monks Kaufman
starstarstarstarstarWheely review – shameless Cars rip-off skids along the hard shoulder
This uninspired animation drives in Pixar’s slipstream and holds an ethos dangerously out of step with the times - Cath Clarke
starstarstarstarstarSteel Country review – Andrew Scott fails to redeem an unholy mess
The Fleabag star’s detailed performance in this missing-child thriller makes its myriad implausibilities all the more dismaying - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Silence review – shoddy remix of A Quiet Place is a Netflix disaster
Kiernan Shipka and Stanley Tucci struggle through a thunderingly bad horror film based in a world where any noise means instant death - Charles Bramesco
starstarstarstarstarUnplanned review – anti-abortion propaganda is a gory mess
In a dim-witted Christian drama part-financed by the disgraced founder of a pillow manufacturer, a woman discovers abortion is evil - Jordan Hoffman
starstarstarstarstarDumbo review – Tim Burton remake lands with elephantine thud
All the charm and heartbreak of Disney’s classic animation is missing in this retro-futurist, live-action clunker - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Prodigy review – unscary demon-kid horror story
With tiresome jump scares, bad acting and untied plot strands, this tale of a disturbed child genius is a cliche-ridden stinker - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Highwaymen review – Netflix take on Bonnie and Clyde is criminally bad
Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson star as the cops who took down the infamous duo in an odious and dimwitted thriller - Charles Bramesco
starstarstarstarstarSerenity review – overcooked ham all round
Anne Hathaway and Matthew McConaughey cover themselves in shame in this bizarrely bad erotic thriller - Simran Hans
starstarstarstarstarHappy Death Day 2U review – slasher sequel isn't worth celebrating
An inevitable yet staggeringly unnecessary follow-up to the surprise horror hit turns a nifty concept into an exhaustingly convoluted mess - Benjamin Lee
starstarstarstarstarThe Operative review – deep-cover spy thriller that forgets the thrills
Martin Freeman plays a Mossad agent who recruits Diane Kruger’s newbie to go undercover in Iran – but the resulting film is an unexciting mess - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Gandhi Murder review – Vinnie Jones steps into Indian history
A conspiracy thriller focusing on Gandhi’s final days is hampered by questionable casting, comical back projections and terrible visual effects - Mike McCahill
starstarstarstarstarPolar review – hyper-violent Netflix thriller drowns in gore and stupidity
Mads Mikkelsen stars as a hitman facing retirement in a dimwitted and poorly constructed action film stuffed with distractingly explicit violence - Stephen Snart
starstarstarstarstarSecond Act review – Jennifer Lopez in ludicrous Working Girl knock-off
A store worker deploys her street smarts to bowl over the boss of a beauty corporation in this flimsy, toe-curling comedy - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Upside review – Bryan Cranston heads up horrific odd-couple disability drama
This sentimental remake of French heartwarmer The Untouchables pairs a quadriplegic businessman with black carer Kevin Hart to give unfunny echoes of Trading Places - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarHolmes & Watson review – elementary homophobic grossout comedy
This murky Sherlock tale is the nadir of Conan Doyle adaptations - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarLife Itself review – too much calamity
Dan Fogelman piles on the suffering for characters and audience alike in this pretentious drama - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarSurviving Christmas With the Relatives review – badly wrapped present
A dysfunctional family faces the challenges of the festive season in this chaotic, eggnog-nostalgic comedy - Cath Clarke
starstarstarstarstarPokémon the Movie: The Power of Us review – dud animation lost in promo fog
This overextended cartoon never transcends its resemblance to a pre-Christmas trailer for other Pokémon-branded products - Mike McCahill
starstarstarstarstarThe Christmas Chronicles review – Kurt Russell's Santa can't save Netflix turkey
The streaming giant is releasing a string of festive movies this year but their glossiest option is a shoddy sign of things to come - Stephen Snart
starstarstarstarstarOverlord review – nasty second world war action-horror fantasy
This bizarre and gruesome tale of an allied assault on a church in Nazi-occupied France leaves an unpleasant taste - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarKing of Crime review – a new low for the Brit gangster flick (no, really)
With its A-level script, risible visuals and soap actors indulging in GBH, this humourless thriller comes close to comedy gold - Leslie Felperin
starstarstarstarstarNo Shade review – colourism drama falls well short of worthy themes
Clare Anyiam-Osigwe’s debut about the love lives of Londoners tackles a serious issue but can’t escape its amateurish trappings - Steve Rose
starstarstarstarstarStrangeways Here We Come review – how low can a film go?
This awful Salford-set Shameless ripoff fails to raise any laughs at all from the implausible misadventures of its sink-estate caricatures and sex pests - Mike McCahill
starstarstarstarstarVenom review – Tom Hardy flames out in poisonously dull Spider-Man spin-off
As the reporter who fuses with an alien ‘symbiote’, Hardy stumbles in a film that is nowhere near the nimble excellence of the Marvel Cinematic Universe series - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarMile 22 review – Mark Wahlberg blunders through chaotic action romp
In his latest collaboration with director Peter Berg, Wahlberg leads a special ops team on a mission to recover stolen batches of nuclear material - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Death and Life of John F. Donovan review – Xavier Dolan's wild misfire
The Canadian writer-director’s star-packed English language debut, telling the story of a closeted actor and his friendship with a young boy, is a dubious mess - Benjamin Lee
starstarstarstarstarLife Itself review – entirely dire daisy-chain melodrama makes you pray for death
Apparently scripted by an especially depthless range of greetings cards, this big screen effort from the creator of This Is Us dishes out tragedy to Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Annette Bening - and its audience - Gwilym Mumford
starstarstarstarstarThe Nun review – a clueless Conjuring cash-in that summons zero scares
This tedious prequel follows a team of clerics to Romania, where they unexpectedly encounter every cliche in the book - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarBad Samaritan – second-rate thriller beset by the stench of misogyny
David Tennant’s psychotic abductor is chanced upon by a small-time criminal in a film that leaves a truly nasty taste - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Happytime Murders review – puppet comedy is stuffed with unfunny jokes
Melissa McCarthy investigates a series of brutal puppet murders in a staggeringly bad attempt to add X-rated humour to Sesame Street - Charles Bramesco
starstarstarstarstarOf Gods and Warriors review – Game of Thrones-inspired shlock
The kingdom in this poorly acted Viking fantasy is populated by peacenik vegans, a warrior princess and … Terence Stamp - Cath Clarke
starstarstarstarstarHotel Transylvania 3: Monster Vacation – a holiday from hell
There isn’t a single moment of wit or fun in this mediocre Munsters knockoff - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarBreaking Through review – out of step YouTuber dance drama
This flavourless film about a would-be internet celebrity, from the writer of Step Up 4, doesn’t drag its feet so much as shuffle them indifferently - Mike McCahill
starstarstarstarstarThe Secret of Marrowbone review – plot holes the diameter of Jupiter
This terrible turkey from the writer of The Orphanage is a muddled hotchpotch of supernatural chills, shouty overacting and absurd dialogue - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarIdeal Home review – Steve Coogan's celebrity chef cooks up a dud
In this unfunny comedy, Coogan plays half of a gay couple thrown into disarray by the unexpected arrival of his grandson - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarPatrick review – a dog’s dinner
A schoolteacher inherits her grandmother’s predictably life-changing pug in this lame comedy - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarTau review – Gary Oldman is an evil Alexa in another Netflix sci-fi disaster
The recent Oscar winner lends his voice to a moronic thriller about a woman trapped by artificial intelligence, which sits alongside other genre missteps on the streaming platform - Charles Bramesco
starstarstarstarstarOverboard review – a rotten remake sunk by unseaworthy leads
This new version of the Goldie Hawn amnesia comedy sadly forgets to make sure the principals have any chemistry - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarWelcome to Curiosity review – inane thriller
Hamfisted dialogue and sexist attitudes abound in this corny crime caper - Simran Hans
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