Five star - Latest 1 Star Film Reviews from the Guardian

Kids in Love review – gap-year angst
Privileged youth and tedious superficiality rule in this thin drama - Wendy Ide
Brotherhood review – silly gangster-porn version of kids' TV
With its dramatic cliches and terrible acting, Noel Clarke’s ‘hood’ franchise is now utterly exhausted - Peter Bradshaw
Nine Lives review: Kevin Spacey can't claw his way out of this feline disaster
Christopher Walken plays a ‘cat whisperer’ and Spacey stars in possibly the most spectacularly inept studio offering of the year - Nigel M Smith
Hillary's America review – Dinesh D'Souza says: beware racist Democrat super-villains
The political commentator’s contribution to the 2016 presidential campaign is a paranoid film driven by one ‘secret fact’ – that the Democratic party has twisted US history in a dastardly cause - Jordan Hoffman
Precious Cargo – nonsensical thriller
The makers of this cliched action collage banked on Bruce Willis but should have spent more on the script - Wendy Ide
Precious Cargo review – Bruce Willis phones it in for crass caper
Big bangs and a speedboat chase do nothing to rescue this unexciting, unfunny action thriller - Peter Bradshaw
Independence Day: Resurgence review – planet-smashingly boring sci-fi sequel
Not even Jeff Goldblum and Charlotte Gainsbourg stationed on a militarised moon can save us from the joyless tedium of this mind-crushing movie - Peter Bradshaw
Mother’s Day review – crudely conceived
This poor excuse for a chick flick offers little insight into motherhood - Wendy Ide
Mother's Day review – Jennifer Aniston and Julia Roberts in skin-crawlingly smug romcom
With bland emotional manipulation, Garry Marshall’s follow-up to Valentine’s Day is as funny as a fire in an asbestos factory neighbouring a children’s hospital - Peter Bradshaw
Miracles from Heaven review – unbelievably preachy Christian drama
When the sick daughter of God-fearing folk recovers, the family attribute it to divine intervention. Jennifer Garner, what are you doing in this? - Peter Bradshaw
Misconduct review – world-class levels of dreadfulness
Anthony Hopkins and Al Pacino flounder in an inept legal thriller - Wendy Ide
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows review – halfwits in a halfshell
Slickly digitised and heavily armed to once again defeat Shredder, reptilian meatheads Donny, Mikey and the gang are joyless company - Mike McCahill
The Trust review – a misfire on every level
Elijah Wood is an unconvincing police officer in this disastrous heist drama - Wendy Ide
Top Cat Begins review – tiptop tat
This new puss prequel is very much on a par with the standard of the first film - Peter Bradshaw
The Last Face review – African conflict is aphrodisiac for white people in Sean Penn's crass romance
Charlize Theron and Javier Bardem give career worst performances as doctors falling in love in west Africa while black characters are relegated to the background - Benjamin Lee
The Angry Birds Movie review – charmless chaos
Fans may rejoice at their game being given a story, but it’s one that lacks laughs and elegance - Wendy Ide
Cabin Fever review – horror remake astounding in its lameness
A gang of young people encounter creepy hillbillies and a flesh-eating virus in this uninspired rehash of Eli Roth’s 2002 scary movie - Peter Bradshaw
God's Not Dead 2 review – hammy and righteous courtroom drama
A Christian college teacher skewered by an anxious school board gets her chance for vindication – or martyrdom – in front of a jury - Peter Bradshaw
Mother’s Day review – almost transcendentally terrible
Surely destined to become a camp classic, this movie features the likes of Julia Roberts and Jennifer Aniston spouting unintentionally hilarious dialogue - Jordan Hoffman
Papa: Hemingway in Cuba review – Hollywood's Havana horror
The first Hollywood film to be shot in Cuba since Castro isn’t close but no cigar – the Ernest Hemingway biopic is an oceangoing embarrassment - Jordan Hoffman
How convincing was Johnny Depp's apology? Our film critic gives his verdict
Depp and Amber Heard’s quasi-apology for illegally taking their terriers to Australia mocks the authorities, yet falls short of satire and into a kind of weird irony - Peter Bradshaw
Criminal review – fantastically stupid
Brainless brain-transplant action flick – complete with Piers Morgan cameo - Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Jason Sudeikis sinks into melodrama
The Horrible Bosses star is out of his depth in this mawkish weepie about a depressed architect who strikes up a friendship with a homeless girl - Nigel M Smith
The Huntsman: Winter’s War review – an insipid confection
Despite a fine performance from Emily Blunt, the follow-up to Snow White and the Huntsman offers cold comfort - Jonathan Romney
The Huntsman: Winter's War review – a fantastically dull fantasy adventure
Snow White and Kristen Stewart have been chillingly banished from this derivative follow-up, in which Charlize Theron and Emily Blunt prove hard to warm to - Peter Bradshaw
The Boss review – unfunny adventures in capitalism with Melissa McCarthy
McCarthy’s disgraced tycoon deals in cheap jokes in a foul-mouthed caper that swats at suburbia, salesmanship and girl-scouting, directed by the star’s husband - Jordan Hoffman
The Huntsman: Winter's War review: dud follow-up to a film no one liked
Now Snow White is awol, this dreary and incoherent CGI mashup of plots from Frozen, Narnia and The Incredibles really cannot justify its existence - Peter Bradshaw
Martyrs review – grubby, unappetising horror
This US remake of a bloody French original has little to offer but soulless grimness - Jonathan Romney
God's Not Dead 2 review – only brief instances of transcendent badness
The latest from evangelical production company Pure Flix is a dull courtroom drama, but unlike the previous film, it isn’t quite silly enough to be entertaining - Jordan Hoffman
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 review – more stereotypes and baklava, anyone?
Big Greek family stalks a browbeaten daughter in this shouty, ramshackle rom-com sequel - Wendy Ide
Rock the Kasbah review – dog’s dinner of an Afghan music biz comedy
Even Bill Murray and Barry Levinson cannot rescue this confused true-life rags to rock riches story - Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
Fifty Shades of Black review – don’t go there…
Marlon Wayans’s EL James cinema parody just isn’t funny - Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
The Young Messiah review – it'll be a miracle if you stay awake
God knows who’ll enjoy this dull, cheap-looking and laughably scripted account of what might have happened in Jesus’s childhood - Jordan Hoffman
Fifty Shades of Black review – Marlon Wayans scrapes the spoof barrel
Clumsy comedy features a Cosby joke, a Kanye joke – and huge spaces where the laughs should be - Henry Barnes
London Has Fallen review – Team America without the jokes
Dreary action sequences, Gerard Butler’s Bruce Willis act and pitiful effects make this action sequel well worth avoiding - Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
Truth review – a Razzie-worthy aria of liberal self-pity and self-importance
Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford bomb in this hammy, tiresome drama about CBS News’s bungled 2004 investigation into George W Bush’s military record - Peter Bradshaw
The Benefactor review – who'd be a millionaire?
Richard Gere gets creepy with Dakota Fanning in this uninspired drama about a philanthropist with a dark side - Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
Exposed review – cop thriller with Keanu and aliens
Writer-director Gee Malik Linton has disowned this drama about a woman who sees angels, and it’s easy to see why - Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
How to Be Single review – give me a Girls box set over this dire romcom any day
This disingenuous one-star ensemble comedy about dating in New York seems to have been created by a dodgy internet dating algorithm - Peter Bradshaw
The Green Inferno review – lazy rip-off
Director Eli Roth continues to recycle gory old horror movies with ham-fisted results - Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
Concussion review – American football drama makes a bad sport of Will Smith
Based on a true story, this drama about the doctor who challenged the NFL with evidence that the game is giving its players brain damage is shallow and unsatisfying - Peter Bradshaw
Point Break review – nature calls in this fantastically pointless remake
Kathyn Bigelow’s cult action movie is given a lifeless reboot as Luke Bracey goes deep undercover in a world of bikes, bank robberies and bad CGI - Peter Bradshaw
Dirty Grandpa review – avoid at all costs
Robert De Niro and Zac Efron earn a place in cinema’s hall of infamy with an atrocious bad-taste comedy - Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
The Eyes of My Mother review – squelchy, silly revenge horror
Almodóvar meets The Texas Chainsaw Massacre – but without the finesse – in this out-to-lunch black-and-white horror - Lanre Bakare
Jacqueline (Argentine) review – dullness paraded as a postmodern joke
Loosely inspired by Edward Snowden and Laura Poitras, this lo-fi drama makes the mistake of continually drawing attention to its own tedium - Jordan Hoffman
Yoga Hosers review – Kevin Smith unleashes Nazi sausages in tired comedy
The second in Smith’s planned True North trilogy, following Tusk, aims for inspired lunacy but comes up short in every department - Nigel M Smith in Park City, Utah
Breakdown review – preposterous geezer-gangster panto
This embarrassing slice of British nonsense, featuring the assassination of nonces and drug dealers, is rescued only by a moment of climactic comedy - Peter Bradshaw
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi review – Michael Bay plays politico for the Fox News crowd
Michael Bay’s bloody bonanza about the 2012 US compound attack is atrocious, shrewdly timed for the presidential race and so scornful of foreign intervention it could be pacifist - Jordan Hoffman
Rise of the Footsoldier Part II review – cockney yob slog
Entirely unnecessary sequel on the further fortunes of a football hooligan turned gangland bruiser trying to rise in a grotty underworld of thugs’n’drugs - Benjamin Lee
Don Verdean review: Bible-belt satire has audience begging for deliverance
A mediocre comedy sketch is stretched over 90 minutes in a starry flop conclusively proving Napoleon Dynamite was a blip in the career of Jared Hess - Jordan Hoffman
The Night Before review – tired Christmas bromance
Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and friends can’t raise this token seasonal offering from the doldrums - Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
Christmas With the Coopers review – more like box-ticking day
This nauseatingly by-the-numbers festive family heartwarmer is an unwanted parcel of predictability - Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
Christmas With the Coopers review – overstuffed festive drama
A quality cast, including Diane Keaton and John Goodman, can’t save this Christmas turkey about an insufferable family’s yuletide tribulations - Wendy Ide
Victor Frankenstein review – Radcliffe and McAvoy can't save this monster
Like Frankenstein’s monster, Paul McGuigan’s version of Mary Shelley’s classic lumbers around causing dismay and havoc that’s hard to watch - Jordan Hoffman
Momentum review – Morgan Freeman on call for a terrible heist caper
Olga Kurylenko hasn’t much to do except hit people and Freeman was probably thinking of his bank balance - Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
The Dressmaker review – revenge drama falls apart at the seams
Even Kate Winslet carrying her sewing machine like a gunfighter’s pistol can’t redeem this unbearable patchwork of comedy and tragedy - Peter Bradshaw
The Perfect Guy review – cliched Fatal Attraction knock-off
A cat-stealing, forever-texting psycho stalks businesswoman Sanaa Lathan in a disappointing thriller employing zero creativity - Benjamin Lee
Fathers and Daughters review – mawkish twaddle meets ripe platitudes
Russell Crowe fails to convince as a novelist struggling with stress and parenthood - Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
Sex, Death and Bowling review – dire family deathbed drama merits mercy killing
Ally Walker’s dreadful film about two brothers and their bullies is phony and preposterous - Jordan Hoffman
Burnt review – bad taste Bradley Cooper hotshot chef drama leaves awful smell
Bestubbled Cooper plays a fantastically tiresome prat pursuing redemption and Michelin stars in this overheated foodie flop - Peter Bradshaw
The Last Witch Hunter review – can Vin Diesel defeat misogynist idiocy? Nope
Diesel plays a man of action, not ideas, as he leads a brotherhood of bad-women slayers in this dismal film - Peter Bradshaw
The Little Penguin: Pororo’s Racing Adventure review – painfully twee
The voices are shrill and the plot skates on thin ice in this candy-coloured animation for the very young - Wendy Ide
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension review – a dead loss in 3D
The sixth manifestation of the found-footage horror franchise involves a lot of watching mostly empty frames - Mike McCahill
Rock the Kasbah review – Bill Murray tanks in catastrophic caper
The actor proves that even great talents can be unwatchable if they put their minds to it, in this weak comedy about a rock promoter let loose in Afghanistan - Jordan Hoffman
Pan review – a classic tale is flushed away
Joe Wright’s fantastically dull origin-myth reboot of the Peter Pan story resembles nothing so much as a John Lewis Christmas TV ad - Peter Bradshaw
Rough Cut review – cosmically inept shambles from the UK's Ed Wood
This mind-bogglingly amateurish mess sometimes seems like one big conceptual joke - Mike McCahill
Pan review – a return to Neverland that should never have been made
A starry cast, including Hugh Jackman, Rooney Mara and Cara Delevingne, can’t save Joe Wright’s dull, dreadful, unasked for prequel to JM Barrie’s children’s classic - Jordan Hoffman
Regression review – troubled cop, crunching disappointment
Ethan Hawke, Emma Watson and Satanism can’t enliven Alejandro Amenábar’s conspiracy chiller - Peter Bradshaw
A Haunting in Cawdor review – wildly uneven and hammed-up horror flick
Bizarrely misjudged and unconvincing tale of rehab inmates staging a production of Macbeth for therapeutic purposes - Peter Bradshaw
Singh is Bliing review: Akshay Kumar comedy fails to shiine
Endless penny whistle on the soundtrack can’t help this appallingly poor semi-sequel, featuring lusty swimwear sequences and coconut-in-the-balls punchlines - Mike McCahill
The Intern review – a too-sucrose Ephron-lite cringe-fest
Anne Hathaway is on hectoring and charmless form in Nancy Myers’ latest saccharine-fest, and not even Robert De Niro can save it - Peter Bradshaw
Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection F review – baffling trading-card-universe cartoon
This animated reboot of the long-standing TV series shoots for nothing higher than a flagrant grab for pocket money - Mike McCahill
Solace review – silly serial-killer shtick
Anthony Hopkins hams it up to the max in Afonso Poyart’s sub-Se7en thriller - Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
Solace review – Anthony Hopkins hams it up in psycho-killer thriller
Colin Farrell’s the murderous wacko in an almost exoctically ridiculous drama that echoes The Silence of the Lambs - Peter Bradshaw
Lessons in Love review – wrongheaded romcom fails on every level
Pierce Brosnan and Salma Hayek star in this sitcom-level story about a womanising English professor who gets an undeserved second chance - Steve Rose
Mr Right review - Anna Kendrick and Sam Rockwell in wack hitman comedy
The new film from screenwriter Max Landis, who has called for more originality in Hollywood, is a rip-off of Grosse Pointe Blank and Dexter, where exhausted ideas pile up with the body count - Henry Barnes
Septembers of Shiraz review – who can overact the most, Salma Hayek or Adrien Brody?
The plight of a Jewish family during the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Tehran is given a flabbergastingly depthless portrayal - Jordan Hoffman
Remember review: Christopher Plummer Nazi revenge road movie as subtle as a swastika
Atom Egoyan brings another misfire to Toronto with this cheaply-shot film about a nursing home escapee looking for belated revenge - Benjamin Lee
The Girl in the Photographs review - Wes Craven's last movie is horrible tribute
The late director’s last credit as producer is regrettably attached to this poorly made and entirely scare-free thriller - Benjamin Lee
Freeheld review: an important civil rights story rendered lifeless
Julianne Moore gives her all as a dying New Jersey detective battling to leave her pension to her partner, played by Ellen Page, but it’s not enough to save Peter Sollett’s fact-based drama from feeling vapid - Nigel M Smith
Hero review - Salman Khan turns producer for punchbag of an action love-in
The Bajrangi Bhaijaan star puts his young protege Sooraj Pancholi into the lead role of a tough-guy kidnap film, but the result is a plotless mess - Mike McCahill
The Visit review – ill-judged shenanigans from M Night Shyamalan
There’s horror and comedy in this messy, shaky-cam nadir, but not the kind Shyamalan was aiming for - Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials review – a YA franchise runs out of steam
In a worryingly tedious follow-up, our teenage heroes are out of the Glade and scrambling across a grim, post-apocalyptic CGI landscape - Peter Bradshaw
The Visit review – M Night Shyamalan's found-footage loser
The Sixth Sense director despatches a pair of charmless tweens to a predictable fate in a dull, derivative and dated drama - Mike McCahill
Man Down review - Shia LaBeouf is ordinary boy in boring and baffling war film
Dito Montiel has come up with a laboured, chopped up story, with LaBeouf a disappointing presence as a US marine back from the Afghanistan war - Andrew Pulver
Lolo review – Julie Delpy's charmless comedy is devoid of laughs
The French actor, writer and director disappoints in this tale of an obsessive son and his mother - Peter Bradshaw
Buttercup Bill review – southern gothic that does not come to life
A shared secret from a childhood past is blunderingly revealed in this self-indulgent, flatly acted stab at Lynchian drama - Peter Bradshaw
War Room review: shut up and pray he quits
Alex and Stephen Kendrick’s faith-based film argues that domestic abuse can be cured by retiring to a bunker and praying. It’s an odd plan of attack, says Jordan Hoffman - Jordan Hoffman
Hitman: Agent 47 review – shoot 'em up, grind 'em down with dullness
In this punishingly vacuous thriller, Rupert Friend is a rabbit-faced assassin with dozens of expendable types on his hitlist - Peter Bradshaw
We Are Your Friends review – wearisome odyssey through the LA club scene
Zac Efron is a super-hot DJ searching for credibility amid the music-video cliches and Entourage-style bro-love - Peter Bradshaw
Zombie Fight Club review – undead take the lift in Taiwan tower block
The gore-heavy mayhem is surpassed by a rampant strain of misogyny in Joe Chien’s nasty horror flick - Leslie Felperin
StalkHer review – a long, pointless spat that manages to degrade both genders
John Jarratt and Kaarin Fairfax co-star and co-direct this rancid battle-of-the-sexes film, which is mean-spirited, implausible and offensive as a work of art - Luke Buckmaster
Vacation review – middling vulgarity
A lame return to National Lampoon’s Walley World offers crudity but few laughs - Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
Absolutely Anything review – faintly squalid romp
Simon Pegg cannot save this bleak comedy, which looks and feels as if it was made in the mid-80s - Jonathan Romney
Absolutely Anything review - cheap and cheerless sci-fi comedy
Simon Pegg plays a teacher endowed with godlike powers and Robin Williams, in his final film role, supplies the voice of a dog. But it’s far from funny - Peter Bradshaw
Paper Towns review – Cara Delevingne is not enough
Framed around a female lead so adorkable it’s dangerous, this insufferable US high-school movie forgets to be funny or sharp - Peter Bradshaw
Fantastic Four review – murky and misjudged
The Marvel superhero family’s poor relations deserve so much more than this dire reboot - Jonathan Romney
The Cobbler review – misguided fairytale
A shoe-mender finds magical powers in this mawkish Adam Sandler vehicle - Jonathan Romney
Hot Pursuit review – flat female buddy movie
Reese Witherspoon’s wide-eyed energy as a cop assigned to protect a mob wife helps to lift this flagging comedy - Jonathan Romney
The Cobbler review – botched Adam Sandler fantasy comedy
This entirely dreadful yarn about a magical cobbler is up to Sandler’s usual standards, but you might have expected more from its director - Mike McCahill