Five star - Latest 1 Star Film Reviews from the Guardian

Welcome to Curiosity review – inane thriller
Hamfisted dialogue and sexist attitudes abound in this corny crime caper - Simran Hans
Welcome to Curiosity review – serial-killer thriller is a dead loss
A homicidal maniac is on the loose in an implausible and silly story complete with sadly predictable trip to a lap-dancing club - Peter Bradshaw
Book Club review – simulated sexcom for the over-60s
Fonda, Keaton, Bergen and Steenburgen can do nothing to rescue this charmless luxury lifestyle offering about discovering EL James - Peter Bradshaw
Show Dogs review – canine caper that's as ruff as they come
This tale of talking mutts, voiced by minor celebrities, is a mirthlessly cynical cinematic chew toy - Mike McCahill
Under the Silver Lake review – It Follows director bellyflops with ghastly noir
David Robert Mitchell’s film shows the dangers of a hot director being given free rein, as Andrew Garfield’s stoner wanders around piecing together an occult conspiracy of the super-rich - Peter Bradshaw
Life of the Party review – Melissa McCarthy's college comedy fails the grade
An aggressively unfunny shamble of cliches marks a regrettable addition to the comic performer’s patchy resume - Benjamin Lee
I Kill Giants review – a ginormous waste of time
This trashy family fantasy – in which a lonely girl hunts giants in a handily creepy forest – confuses fake jeopardy with drama - Peter Bradshaw
The Titan review – unexciting Netflix sci-fi squanders its premise
Sam Worthington is a lifeless protagonist in a film about a government genetics experiment to evolve man into space - Jake Nevins
Midnight Sun review – no toe left uncurled
This earnestly acted teen-abstinence sob-fest reduces a medical condition that makes sun exposure fatal into a quirky foil for a high-school romance - Peter Bradshaw
Pacific Rim: Uprising review – beyond mindless
Even the charm of John Boyego can’t redeem this botched sequel to Guillermo del Toro’s sci-fi original - Wendy Ide
Game Over, Man! review – painful Netflix comedy is Die Hard with dick jokes
Unfunny film plays out like a wretched take on the 80s classic with added gay panic humor and charmless performances - Charles Bramesco
Dark Beacon review – lighthouse shocker makes a boob
Corrie Greenop and Lee Apsey’s cack-handed British horror heads straight for the rocks - Leslie Felperin
Peter Rabbit review – unfunny bunny
James Corden and co bring nothing to the carrot patch in this crass take on the Beatrix Potter classic - Simran Hans
Peter Rabbit review – in a hole with James Corden's unfunny bunny
This attempt to turn Beatrix Potter’s creation into a sassy, low-grade British Bugs – voiced by Corden – is cynical and tiresome - Peter Bradshaw
That's Not My Dog! review – Shane Jacobson's awful true-blue joke compilation
Jimeoin, Paul Hogan, Fiona O’Loughlin and others cracking lazy jokes – 86 of them – around a campfire. It really is his dog - Luke Buckmaster
Scott and Sid review – woefully misjudged comedy-drama
Scott Elliott and Sid Sadowskyj recreate their teenage years in a film that suffers from inadequate script, acting and direction - Peter Bradshaw
The Outsider review – Jared Leto joins the yakuza in crass Netflix thriller
An unconvincing crime tale from the streaming giant sees the Oscar winner in murky territory taking a shallow, tourist-friendly view of Japan - Charles Bramesco
Death Wish review – Bruce Willis stacks up corpses in gutless remake
Eli Roth’s bloodthirsty take on Michael Winner’s 1974 thriller is a banal misfire that goes too far too soon and has arrived at a particularly inopportune time in the US - Amy Nicholson
Mute review – Duncan Jones's sci-fi thriller is a Netflix disaster
The Moon director has delivered a catastrophically misjudged riff on Blade Runner with an astoundingly dull performance from Alexander Skarsgård - Charles Bramesco
The BBQ review – Shane Jacobson's likability can't save gallingly unfunny 'comedy'
It’s filled with racial stereotypes, dumb dialogue and inept subplots, and few things about Stephen Amis’s film make sense - Luke Buckmaster
The 15:17 to Paris review – a truly dull tale of real-life derring-do
Three US tourists who foiled a terror attack on a French train play themselves. Poor call by director Clint Eastwood - Wendy Ide
Tad the Lost Explorer and the Secret of King Midas review – ropey Euro animation
An Indiana Jones-style adventure is hampered by mediocre storytelling – and an unbearably unfunny mummy - Peter Bradshaw
Fifty Shades Freed review – limp S&M threequel swaps Grey for beige
Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan return for more tame kink in the final chapter of a phenomenally successful franchise that’s also phenomenally dull - Benjamin Lee
Winchester review – cliched haunted house horror
Helen Mirren plays an eccentric gun heiress in a film that is solely reliant on cheap scares - Simran Hans
Winchester review – rifle heiress biopic with Helen Mirren misfires
The story of the widow who inherited the Winchester firearms fortune aims for supernatural scares – and misses by a mile - Peter Bradshaw
A Landscape of Lies review – film-making frauds serve up a taxing watch
Beginning life as a bogus project aimed at defrauding the public purse, this silly geezer Brit-flick is as bad as its backstory is good - Peter Bradshaw
Pitch Perfect 3 – musical comedy franchise hits a bum note
An a cappella troupe fixate on their glory days, and who can blame them - Wendy Ide
The Man Who Invented Christmas review – a Dickens of a duffer
The story behind the writing of A Christmas Carol gets lost is this twee, cliched sketch - Simran Hans
The Man Who Invented Christmas review – bah, humbug!
Dan Stevens plays Charles Dickens in this tin-eared, saccharine, entirely terrible comic fantasy about the writing of A Christmas Carol - Peter Bradshaw
Daddy’s Home 2 – cynical production-line tat
Mel Gibson joins the cast of men-children in this mediocre domestic comedy - Wendy Ide
#Starvecrow review – first ever selfie movie needs an upgrade
Shot mostly on camera phones, this British drama about a group of insufferable twentysomethings has little going for it besides zeitgeist bragging rights - Cath Clarke
Justice League review – dour and wooden beneath the wisecracks
Joss Whedon’s quips sit ill with Zack Snyder’s leaden direction, while Ben Affleck makes for an unconvincing Batman in this dire DC offering - Simran Hans
The Exorcist review – West End horror show is as spooky as a wet sock
This stage version of the classic movie deploys blackouts, special effects and the voice of Ian McKellen to do the devil’s work, but possesses no fearful thrills - Lyn Gardner
Goodbye Christopher Robin review – Winnie the Pooh's hunny pot joylessly stirred
The story of AA Milne’s difficult relationship with his son is a bizarrely clenched and twee heritage drama that wallows in misery - Peter Bradshaw
Kingsman: The Golden Circle review – sneering spy spoof sequel
Requiring Taron Egerton to act proves a stretch too far for this unpleasant, poorly plotted follow-up - Wendy Ide
American Assassin review – dimwitted, deeply cynical Chuck Norris copy-paste
Michael Keaton plays an Aviator-sporting ex-Navy Seal in this risible attempt to blend counterterrorism manoeuvres with The Hunger Games - Mike McCahill
The Vault review – ghoul trouble
Three siblings stumble across a haunted vault in this bank heist horror that drags - Simran Hans
Stratton review – acting’s all-time low
Derek Jacobi’s performance is among the lowlights of this embarrassing Bond-on-a-boat affair - Wendy Ide
Rough Night review – faux-feminist gags fall flat
Scarlett Johansson and gang can’t conjure any chemistry, or many laughs, in this dire tale of a hen party gone wrong - Simran Hans
The Hitman’s Bodyguard review – misfiring action comedy
Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L Jackson buddy up but phone it in - Jonathan Romney
Annabelle: Creation review – same old devil doll, same old cliches
This dull, silly prequel to the prequel to The Conjuring stars Anthony LaPaglia as a doll-maker in a haunted orphanage - Peter Bradshaw
The Emoji Movie review – the end of human civilisation as we know it
Smartphones take centre-stage is this hideously dumbed-down offering - Wendy Ide
The Emoji Movie review – zestless, pointless boilerplate animation
While the Angry Birds movie balanced dumbed-down world with a smart script, this personification of smartphone symbols is just ‘meh’ - Peter Bradshaw
The Emoji Movie review – a big thumbs down 👎
This 💩 corporate clickbait exercise pretends to be a film for kids, but is actually trying to cross-sell apps to a tween audience - Charles Bramesco
Monster Island review – forgettable family animation
This ploddingly mediocre knockoff about a boy with a monstrous genetic secret is visually uninspired and not much to listen to - Peter Bradshaw
Wish Upon review – incompetent Final Destination rip-off is scare-free
The film is shoddily made and entirely lacking in thrills – a drab attempt to kick off a new horror franchise fails on almost every conceivable level - Benjamin Lee
To the Bone review – Netflix's anorexia tale is uninsightful, insipid and insulting
Keanu Reeves’ phoned-in performance as a dashing doctor is one of many low points in a film whose addressing of an important topic ranges from banal to bizarre - Peter Bradshaw
Tommy’s Honour review – Jason Connery’s stuffy, old man’s golf drama
This tedious period drama is strictly for the golf movie completist - Wendy Ide
The Last Word review – unbearably cute and condescending
Amanda Seyfried and Shirley MacLaine play a journalist and a cantankerous old woman in a cliched and humourless piece of tosh - Peter Bradshaw
Hampstead review – ghastly faux-mance
Diane Keaton and Brendan Gleeson star as an unlikely couple in this prettified version of a homeless man’s story - Wendy Ide
Transformers: The Last Knight review – chuck this mess on the scrapheap
The impenetrable fifth film in the franchise proves that director Michael Bay has run out of ideas - Wendy Ide
The Book of Henry review – a toxic swamp of cynicism and manipulation
A precocious child’s voice fails to ring true in this superficial stab at tackling cancer and abuse - Wendy Ide
Transformers: The Last Knight review – as tinnitus-inducingly pointless as ever
It’s robots battling King Arthur in director Michael Bay’s fifth go round as director of the gigantic toy-commercial franchise. What could possibly go wrong? - Peter Bradshaw
The Book of Henry review – icky revenge weepie pours syrup over everything
Excruciatingly misjudged, insidiously comedic child-abuse death drama in which a dying kid leaves a diary for his family detailing how to take revenge on an abuser. It’s as bad as that sounds and worse - Peter Bradshaw
The Shack review – death by syrup
Misguided, folksy drama about a man whose faith is tested when his daughter is murdered - Wendy Ide
The Shack review – a wet weekend at Christian Disneyland
This unsubtle, pedagogic faith-driven drama could have been crazily brilliant but is swamped by bad writing, cardboard characters and infantile theology - Peter Bradshaw
Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge review – plumbing the depths
Disney continues to milk its nautical cash cow with a dismal fifth outing for Johnny Depp and his crew - Simran Hans
Spark review – cosmic monkey business is a load of space junk
This misconceived animation draws its influences from Star Wars, Planet of the Apes and Hamlet to no good effect - Leslie Felperin
Rodin review – Jacques Doillon sculpts an excruciatingly bad film
The only passion this mind-blowingly dull biopic of the French sculptor is likely to incite is from audiences screaming for their money back - Peter Bradshaw
Baywatch review – alpha-male chest-off is not worth the Hasselhoff
Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron go chest to chest in a limp big-screen update of the 90s TV show that doesn’t have the wit or stamina to stay afloat - Steve Rose
Spaceship review – smug, humourless emo-teen drama
The story of a bunch of dreamily self-admiring friends hanging out in the suburbs and talking about aliens is oppressively self-indulgent - Peter Bradshaw
Unlocked review – plenty of talent, nothing to work with…
A cast of stars proves unable to lift this derivative, turgid terrorism thriller - Simran Hans
Rules Don't Apply review – Warren Beatty's unbearable vanity project
Beatty’s first film in 15 years – co-written, produced, directed by and starring himself as Howard Hughes – is a plodding exercise in narcissism - Peter Bradshaw
Finding Fatimah review – faintly desperate dating comedy
This indie comedy about Muslim people looking for love in Manchester suffers from terrible production values, wasted talent and a critical lack of laughs - Peter Bradshaw
The Hatton Garden Job review – a swift and methodical theft of everyone's time
Matthew Goode and Phil Daniels do their best as toughened crims in a story of the real-life 2015 heist, but they can’t rescue this geezer opera from trite tedium - Peter Bradshaw
Man Down review – Shia LaBeouf in a postapocalyptic shambles
The story of a marine who returns from Afghanistan to find an unidentified disaster has made a wasteland of the US is unbearably self-important - Peter Bradshaw
Chips review – woefully unfunny TV cop show reboot
Dax Shepard goes for laughs in this remake of the US highway patrol series – and fails - Wendy Ide
The Time of Their Lives review – depressingly cardboard pensioners' comedy
Joan Collins and Pauline Collins play silver-years friends on a jolly to a funeral in France, in a sentimental comedy that tests indulgence to the limits - Peter Bradshaw
Fist Fight review - crass comedy
A bullying mob mentality informs this far-fetched tale of a fight between American high school teachers - Wendy Ide
Kong: Skull Island review – only de-evolution can explain this zestless mashup
Tom Hiddleston’s talents are lost in this jumbled jungle caper that repeatedly indulges in anti-climax and silliness - Peter Bradshaw
Table 19 review – divorce yourself from this unfunny wedding comedy
Anna Kendrick, Lisa Kudrow and Stephen Merchant are all wasted in an embarrassingly tone-deaf film filled with thin characters and bad writing - Jordan Hoffman
Southern Fury review – substandard kidnap caper
This violent thriller has no redeeming features – and that includes Nicolas Cage’s fake nose - Wendy Ide
Southern Fury review – Nicolas Cage in a fatuous burst of righteous revenge
This crass, violent crime thriller, with Cage as a bulbous-nosed mobster, is laden with sentimental self-importance - Peter Bradshaw
Love of My Life – cringeworthy comedy-drama
Even Anna Chancellor can’t rescue this dire dramedy about a woman with five days to live - Simran Hans
The Dinner review – soggy melodrama and indigestible ham all round
Laura Linney, Rebecca Hall, Richard Gere and Steve Coogan star in a dull, shouty, unconvincing film about four people discussing their children over a fancy meal - Peter Bradshaw
Fifty Shades Darker review – submissive sequel offers little light relief but lots of washing
EL James’s panting couple are back – but director Sam Taylor-Johnson is not – in this daft yet dull S&M soap - Catherine Shoard
The Space Between Us review – cosmically mawkish teen romance
This tale of interplanetary young love falls apart upon take-off with a storyline that offers no surprises and fetishises its protagonist’s debilitating illness - Peter Bradshaw
The Bye Bye Man review: farewell to charm in bloody, awful college horror
Cressida Bonas is among luckless students who discover the devil in their digs in this lazy junk featuring expositional librarians and a search engine called ‘Search’ - Mike McCahill
Assassin's Creed review – Michael Fassbender game movie achieves transcendental boredom
This film adaptation of the successful videogame, in which Fassbender must battle Templars after the original apple from Eden, is an interminable, lifeless mess - Peter Bradshaw
Collateral Beauty review: a Chernobyl of toxic sentimentality
Will Smith stars in this horrifyingly cutesy Will Smith film in which bereavement is offset by soft-focus platitudes about wonder and compassion - Peter Bradshaw
Jet Trash review – subpar British indie thriller with nice scenery
Three charmless chancers move between hemispheres dodging sex traffickers and leaving plots lying around in this back-to-The-Beach druggy annoyance - Mike McCahill
Heritage of Love review – wretched, retchworthy Russian romance
An insufferable love story set in St Petersburg pre-1917 and Paris today, this regressive, saccharine film may have made serious rubles, but it has no merit - Leslie Felperin
Almost Christmas review – almost unbearable holiday heartwarmer
At least Danny Glover brings some poise to this syrupy family comedy about a man preparing for his first Christmas since his wife’s death - Peter Bradshaw
Army of One review – Nicolas Cage hunts Osama bin Laden in year's worst comedy
A shockingly ill-advised caper from Borat director Larry Charles takes the leftfield true story of Gary Faulkner and mines it for zero laughs - Jordan Hoffman
Keeping Up With the Joneses review – the Mad Man next door
Jon Hamm and Wonder Woman are the new neighbours in a thin action spoof - Jonathan Romney
Inferno review – a load of flaming nonsense
Tom Hanks is wasted once more in the third Dan Brown film, a tedious, unbelievable and unfathomable romp to save the world - Peter Bradshaw
Inferno review – say hello to the 10th circle of hell
Tom Hanks and Felicity Jones sprint fetchingly round Florence in a bid to stop half the world getting killed in this horrifically dull Dan Brown thriller - Peter Bradshaw
War on Everyone review – drowning in an ocean of snark
There’s no plot or humour in John Michael McDonagh’s misfiring buddy-cop film, which pits detectives Michael Peña and Alexander Skarsgård against a succession of minority punchbags - Mike McCahill
Swiss Army Man review – a dead loss
Daniel Radcliffe plays an adaptable corpse in this staggeringly puerile desert-island comedy - Wendy Ide
Clinton, Inc. review – ludicrous right-wing documentary fails to bring down Hillary
Another lo-fi attempt to sway the election crashes into select cinemas with a set of vicious attacks and a lack of anything resembling a revelation - Jordan Hoffman
Masterminds review – a tortuously dull theft of time
Kristen Wiig and Zach Galifianakis cannot redeem this asinine heist caper that trades wit, style and excitement for wacky outfits and crazy hair - Jordan Hoffman
I Had Nowhere to Go review – Douglas Gordon's fatuous bio-doc of Jonas Mekas
The Turner prize-winning artist has turned his attention to underground film-maker Jonas Mekas, pairing ponderous images with Mekas’s memories of the second world war. The result is clumsy, confused and desperately manipulative - Jonathan Jones
Dare to Be Wild review – growing pains
Mary Reynolds scooped a gold at the Chelsea flower show in 2002 but this story of her life is no winner - Wendy Ide
Gangsters, Gamblers, Geezers review – horny underdogs get crassly comic
This crime caper aims at randomness but fails to filter what’s amusing from what’s offensive - Mike McCahill
The Headhunter's Calling review – Gerard Butler redemption story never convinces
Butler plays a workaholic whose son’s cancer forces him to become a better man in this treacly drama - Nigel M Smith
[re]Assignment review: gender-switching hitman thriller is staggering misfire
The controversial premise, which sees Michelle Rodriguez playing a man turned into a woman without her consent, sets up a strong contender for 2016’s worst movie - Benjamin Lee
Captain Fantastic review – Viggo Mortensen doesn't earn his stripes
Mortensen stars as a survivalist dad who takes his kids to the woods to teach them authenticity in this low-cal take on The Mosquito Coast - Peter Bradshaw
Ben-Hur review – chariots of dire
This dull, clunking return to one of cinema’s great warhorses lacks all the subtlety, passion and grandeur of its more illustrious predecessors - Peter Bradshaw
ChickLit review – groanworthy bonkbuster
This twee British pastiche of the Fifty Shades phenomenon will tickle no one’s funnybone - Wendy Ide
Max Rose review – scant few laughs in Jerry Lewis' lacklustre last hurrah
The comedy veteran does his best with the material, playing a grieving widower who discovers his wife’s secret affair, but it’s hard to dress up a turkey - Jordan Hoffman