The Worst of September 2018

Worst
Film: Faithful

           Runners
Up:
Half
Moon Street
,
Zack and Miri Make a Porno,
Extreme
Measures
,
I
Love Trouble

Most
Overrated Film:
Silver
Linings Playbook

         
Runners
Up: La
La Land
,
The
Nice Guys
,
Lars
and the Real Girl

           Honorable
Mention:
Half
Nelson
, A
Bigger Splash

Film
with Worst Tonal Issues: Fast-Walking

Film
with Worst Logic Issues: Lars
and the Real Girl

Most
Problematic Film: Observe
and Report

Worst
Performance: Sigourney
Weaver in Half
Moon Street

           Runners
Up: Dermot Mulroney in Samantha,
Jennifer Lawrence in Silver
Linings Playbook
,
Patricia Arquette in Bringing
Out the Dead

         
Honorable
Mention: Diane Keaton and Jessica Lange in Crimes
of the Heart

Most
Overrated Performance: Jennifer Lawrence in Silver
Linings Playbook

           Runners Up: Sissy Spacek and Tess Harper in Crimes
of the Heart
,
Jacki Weaver and Robert De Niro in Silver
Linings Playbook
,
Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling in La
La Land

         
Honorable
Mention: Peggy Ashcroft in A
Passage to India
,
Ryan Gosling in Half
Nelson
,
Jane Fonda in The
Morning After

Worst
Screen Couple: Julia
Roberts and Nick Nolte in I
Love Trouble

           Runners
Up:
Kelly Lynch and Barry Tubb in Warm
Summer Rain
,
Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes in Bad
Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
,
Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence in Silver
Linings Playbook
,
Sigourney Weaver and Michael Caine in Half
Moon Street
,
Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks in Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Worst
Cameo or Bit Part: Justin Long in

Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Worst
Accent: Diane Keaton in Crimes
of the Heart

(Mississippi)

Most
Irritating Screen Presence (tied): Seth
Rogen and Elizabeth Banks in

Zack and Miri Make a Porno

         
Runners
Up: Rachel McAdams in The
Notebook
,
Jennifer Lawrence in Silver
Linings Playbook
,
Tony Revolori in The
Grand Budapest Hotel
,
Madonna in Madonna:
Truth or Dare

         
Honorable
Mention: Christian Bale in Empire
of the Sun

Most
Unsightly Screen Presence: James Woods in Fast-Walking

         
Runners Up: Domhnall Gleeson in Ex
Machina
, Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton in A Bigger Splash

Most
Obnoxious Score: La
La Land

(Justin Hurwitz)

           Runner
Up: Lars
and the Real Girl

(David Torn)

Most
Shameless Vanity Project: Madonna:
Truth or Dare

Best
Worst Film:
Rent-a-Cop

The Best of September 2018

Best
New Discovery: In
the Company of Men

           Runners
Up: Celebrity,
Your
Friends & Neighbors
, Mandy

Funniest
Film: Deconstructing
Harry

         
Runners
Up: Celebrity,
Everybody
Wants Some!!
,
Your
Friends & Neighbors
,
In
the Company of Men

Most
Powerful Experience: Drive

         
Runners
Up: Mandy,
The
Ballad of Narayama
,
Ex
Machina
,
The
Mill and the Cross
,
Stalker

Most
Wonderfully Weird Film: Messiah
of Evil

Best
Female Performance or Screen Presence: Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine

         
Runners
Up:

Judy Davis in Deconstructing Harry and Celebrity, Diane Keaton in Annie
Hall
,
Mare Winningham in Miracle
Mile
,
Stacy Edwards in In
the Company of Men
,
Miranda Richardson in Dance
with a Stranger
,
Sumiko Sakamoto in The
Ballad of Narayama
,
Andrea Riseborough in Mandy

           Honorable
Mention: Alicia Vikander in Ex
Machina

Best
Male Performance or Screen Presence: Nicolas Cage in Bad
Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

           Runners
Up: Ken Ogata in The
Ballad of
Narayama
and Vengeance
Is Mine
, Linus Roache in Mandy,
Ryan Gosling in Drive,
Aaron Eckhart in In
the Company of Men
and Your
Friends & Neighbors
, Jason Patric in Your
Friends & Neighbors
, Matt Malloy in In
the Company of Men
, Kenneth Branagh in Celebrity,
Woody Allen in Deconstructing
Harry
 and Annie
Hall

         
Honorable
Mention: Bradley Cooper in Silver
Linings Playbook

Best
Cameo or Bit Part: Shelley Duvall in Annie
Hall

         
Runner
Up: Shea Wigham in Bad
Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Most
Enjoyable Ham: Liza Minnelli in Rent-a-Cop

         
Runners
Up: Ellen Barkin in Johnny
Handsome
, Susan Dey in Looker,
Franco Nero in The
Salamander
,
Bradley Cooper in Silver
Linings Playbook
,
Nicolas Cage in Bad
Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Best
Accent: Kenneth Branagh in Celebrity
(Woody Allen)

Best
Screen Couple: Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham in Miracle
Mile

           Runner
Up: Franco Nero and Paul L. Smith in The
Salamander
, Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura in Drunken
Angel
, Ken Ogata and Sumiko Sakamoto in The
Ballad of Narayama
, Woody Allen and Diane Keaton in Annie
Hall
, Nicolas Cage and Andrea Riseborough in Mandy

Best
Score: The
Ballad of Narayama
(Shin’ichirō Ikebe)

           Runners
Up: The
Mill and the Cross
(Lech Majewski, Józef Skrzek),
Messiah
of Evil
(Phillan Bishop), Stalker
(Eduard Artemev), Mandy
(Jóhann Jóhannsson), Drive
(Cliff Martinez), Miracle
Mile
(Tangerine Dream)

Best
Mise-en-scène: The
Mill and the Cross

           Runners
Up: Stalker,
Mandy,
Drive

           Honorable
Mention: A
Bigger Splash

Best
Locations: Stalker

           Runners
Up: Miracle
Mile
, The
Ballad of Narayama
, Messiah
of Evil

Best
Hunk: Aaron Eckhart in Your
Friends & Neighbors

         
Runners
Up: Franco Nero in The
Salamander
,
Ryan Gosling in Lars
and the Real Girl
,
The
Nice Guys

and Half
Nelson
,
Russell Crowe in The
Nice Guys
,
Kenneth Branagh in Celebrity,
Tyler Hoechlin and Glen Powell in Everybody
Wants Some!!
,
Matthias Schoenaerts in Disorder
and A
Bigger Splash
,
Vincent Lindon in Half
Moon Street
,
Mel Gibson and Kurt Russell in Tequila
Sunrise
,
Oscar Isaac in Ex
Machina

         
Honorable
Mention: Marian Makula in The
Mill and the Cross
,
Beeson Carroll in Crimes
of the Heart
,
Tim Rossovich in Looker,
Seth Rogen in Observe
and Report

and

Zack and Miri Make a Porno