The Worst Movies of 2024

Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu & Jamie Lee Curtis in Borderlands


We have to get the worst out of the way to get to the good stuff, so let’s just cut to the chase. 2024 was a fascinating year for movies, maybe I’d call it good? However, the bad movies from this year are so bad that it could just cancel the “okay” movies out. Hell, even some of the more iconic bad movies from this year like Madame Web just aren't in my bottom 10 of the year because there somehow happened to be movies that I thought were worse. I haven’t seen every movie this year, so this is just my list, not the objective overall list. However, I am including only honorable mention, or a dishonorable mention, on this list because it absolutely would’ve made this list, but I have a good reason why it’s not there.

Dishonorable Mention: Megalopolis [dir. Francis Ford Coppola]. I thought that this was just absolutely excruciating to watch in a theater, but the only reason why it isn’t on this list is because… I walked out. I only stayed for about 90 minutes before just giving up and leaving. That being said, I’m promising to you, the reader, that at some point in 2025, I’m going to finish Megalopolis and give a proper review of it. Even if no one cares about it by then, I’m going to finish it.


Atlas [dir. Brad Peyton]
Honestly, I forgot about this one. Atlas is that Netflix movie that had Jennifer Lopez in a mech suit fighting an android uprising. Come on, shouldn’t that be a slam dunk? Even the director’s other work like San Andreas is fun stuff. What went wrong here, though? It was just really boring, and on top of that, it’s got a message that’s already aged like milk. There’s a storyline about Lopez’s character learning to trust the AI in her mech to fight with her, and that all AI isn’t bad. Not too hard to see how tone deaf that is, especially coming off of an industry-wide strike that directly had to do with regulating the use of AI in Hollywood. What would’ve been a forgettable sci-fi romp ended up being tinged with a horrible message.

Borderlands [dir. Eli Roth]
I thought we were past this. I know these aren’t ranked, but I’m just letting you know now that this is the absolute bottom of the barrel for movies this year. I wasn’t even that big of a fan of the one Borderlands video game I’ve played, and I feel like how Artemis Fowl fans felt after that movie came out. Even taking away the “video game to movie” pipeline angle, it all just feels wrong. I could go on and on about how awful this is, but I feel that I need to mention the casting here. A-listers like Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, and Jamie Lee Curtis are all in this, but they’re all off here. I like them too, but I think we’re past the point where you put famous people in a video game movie and it does well. Seeing that Borderlands is one of the biggest box office bombs of the year, other people feel that way too.

The Deliverance [dir. Lee Daniels]
I’m gonna be honest, I had to remember that this one even existed. It starts off as a generic family drama, then it turns into a mindless exorcist horror movie. This one surprisingly hurts because the family drama angle actually could’ve been really good, but it just devolves into poorly-made horror. I don’t even have a lot to say, this one just kinda made the list.

Megamind vs. The Doom Syndicate [dir. Eric Fogel]
I feel like this is cheating, but as a bit of a spoiler for the Best of 2024 post, a movie that could be considered a “kids” movie is one of the best of the year, so that justifies my placement of Megamind vs. The Doom Syndicate. Even though it’s pretty much a backdoor pilot for that Megamind Rules! series, we can at least make enjoyable movies for babies, right? It also sucks that the marketing treated it like a straight up sequel to the original movie, where it really just isn’t. I’m sure you could show it to a little baby and they’ll just have some fun, but sensory videos would usually just do the trick.

Imaginary [dir. Jeff Wadlow]
I don’t need to say too much about this one. I never saw a real trailer for this before watching it, but the only marketing I saw for Imaginary was a Super Bowl commercial. There wasn’t any actual footage in the spot, but it has a voiceover with that little teddy bear that’s featured in the movie. All it says is, I kid you not, to imagine how scary the movie is gonna be. I admittedly saw it coming, but Imaginary is some of the least scary horror I’ve ever seen. I laughed quite a bit at it, so there’s something with that.

Rebel Moon: Part Two – The Scargiver [dir. Zack Snyder]
This is just embarrassing, man. I honestly don’t want to talk about Rebel Moon anymore. It’s just sci-fi slop, and no, it’s not just because Zack Snyder made it. Snyder’s made some really good projects, but this just doesn’t have any sort of substance to it. Since coming back to reviewing movies again, I’ve thought about watching the extended cut of Rebel Moon, but every time I try to turn it on, I just think “Am I really watching Rebel Moon again?” and stop. It’s genuinely fascinating that while I’m very open to new sci-fi worlds, this is just lazy stuff.

Red One [dir. Jake Kasdan]
Oh my lord. I just put up my review of Red One, and since it’s still fresh in my mind, it’s like a psychic attack on my mind. I’m not even going to go in too deep on Red One, the only movie that has a long shelf life with multiple verticals (thanks for that quote, Dwayne). Seriously, though, what happened here? Out of all the movies I actually watched all the way through this year, Red One is probably the most exhausting, maybe because this movie could’ve been good. Right? Right…?

Sidelined: The QB and Me [dir. Justin Wu]
Look, I know what you’re thinking. Why did you watch this, Ryan? Why did you watch Sidelined, a Tubi original movie that’s based on a Wattpad story with Noah Beck, a TikTok star, making his screen debut? That’s because I do things for the people I love, and that includes watching movies with them. That can’t stop me from thinking about how hokey this is. I’ve got nothing against any of the people involved, but there’s gotta be some second guesses on being in the movie industry, right? It’s not incompetent or anything, but I did laugh quite a bit at some of the acting, so it’s not entirely a waste.

Unfrosted [dir. Jerry Seinfeld]
This is the comedy equivalent to Rebel Moon, both on Netflix ironically enough. I said in my past review of this movie that turning the invention of the Pop Tart into a Space Race-style situation is a novel idea, but this is a comedy, and a comedy simply has to be funny. Unfrosted, just like how plain a Pop Tart used to look in the 1960s, is just shockingly bland. Knowing that Seinfeld apparently has been working on this joke for over a decade is just salt in the wound. While it does look visually like the 60s, it just needed to be funny. Too bad that every joke is just face-plant after face-plant. This is the biggest example of second-hand embarrassment this year.

Venom: The Last Dance [dir. Kelly Marcel]
This over Madame Web? Really? It may be shocking at first, but I have a damn good reason why I think that the trilogy-ender is the worst comic book movie of the year: the other two Venom movies have something going for them. Even though the first two aren’t perfect, I think that Tom Hardy is the x-factor for these movies. Yeah, Hardy’s Eddie Brock isn’t comic book accurate, but the first and second are just so surreal and strange that they’re both fun watches with a group of friends. Hell, the second one, the one focused on Carnage, is a rom-com through and through. No matter good or bad, it’s an idea. The Last Dance is just nothing. Not even Tom Hardy can save just how utterly boring the movie is, especially with introducing a brand new big bad who was supposed to be in the background the entire time. That’s not even mentioning that the Spider-Man-less Spider-Man movies are stopping now, so it’s all for nothing. Just a massive waste of time.