The Worst of August 2018

Worst
Film: Puffball

           Runners
Up: Loose
Cannons
,
All
Tied Up
,
The
Quick and the Dead

           Honorable Mention: Down
and Out in Beverly Hills

Most
Overrated Film:
Big

           Runners
Up: Hoosiers,
Magnolia,
Stronger

           Honorable
Mention:
Sleepy
Hollow
, Fantastic
Mr. Fox
, Country

Film
with Worst Tonal Issues: Living
Out Loud

           Runners
Up: Down
and Out in Beverly Hills
,
All
Tied Up

Film
with Worst Logic Issues: All
Tied Up

           Runners
Up: Tattoo,
Winter
of Our Dreams

Most
Irritating Film: Fantastic
Mr. Fox

           Runners
Up: The
Royal Tenenbaums
,
Magnolia

Worst
Performance (tied): Theresa
Russell in Whore,
Theresa
Russell in Physical
Evidence

           Runners
Up: Dan Aykroyd in Loose
Cannons
,
Maud Adams in Tattoo,
Sharon Stone in The
Quick and the Dead
,
Theresa Russell in Eureka,
Lara Harris, Tracy Griffith and Teri Hatcher in All
Tied Up

Most
Overrated Performance: Tom
Hanks in Big

           Runners Up: Dennis Hopper in Hoosiers,
Jessica Lange in Country,
Nicole Kidman and Ed Harris in The
Hours
,
Jake Gyllenhaal in Stronger

Worst
Screen Couple: Tom Hanks and Elizabeth Perkins in Big

           Runners
Up:
Kelly Reilly and Oscar Pearce in Puffball,
Meryl Streep and Allison Janney in The
Hours
,
Zach Galligan and Teri Hatcher in All
Tied Up
,
Holly Hunter and Danny DeVito in Living
Out Loud
,
Gwyneth Paltrow and Luke Wilson in The
Royal Tenenbaums
,
 Gene Hackman and Dan Aykroyd in Loose Cannons

Worst
Ensemble Cast: All
Tied Up

         
Runner
Up: Body
Slam

           Honorable
Mention: Puffball

Most
Irritating Screen Presence: Gwyneth Paltrow in The
Royal Tenenbaums

and Hard
Eight

         
Runners
Up: Jeremy Blackman and Melora Walters in Magnolia,
Bill Murray in The
Royal Tenenbaums

Most
Unsightly Screen Presence: Kelly Reilly in Puffball

           Runners
Up:
Amanda Plummer in Butterfly
Kiss
,
Ed Harris in The
Hours

Biggest
Waste of Talent: S.
Epatha Merkerson in Loose
Cannons

           Runners
Up: Miranda Richardson in Sleepy
Hollow
, Miranda Richardson
in The
Hours
,
Donald Sutherland in Puffball,
Gene Hackman in Loose
Cannons

and The
Quick and the Dead

Worst
“Hunk”: Bryan Brown in Winter
of Our Dreams

           Runner
Up: Tom Hanks in Big

Most
Obnoxious Score (tied): Sleepy
Hollow
,
Red
Dragon

(Danny Elfman)

           Runners
Up: The
Hours

(Philip Glass), Magnolia
(Jon Brion), Hoosiers
(Jerry Goldsmith)

Worst
Overall Use of Music: Magnolia

Best
Worst Film:
Whore

           Runner
Up:
Physical
Evidence

The Best of August 2018

Best
New Discovery (tied): Husbands
and Wives
,
Whore

         
Runners Up: Affliction,
Citizen
Ruth
,
Hour
of the Wolf
First
Reformed

Best
Rewatch: Ballad
of Orin

         
Runners
Up: High
and Low
,
Black
Rain
,
The
Pornographers
,
Intentions
of Murder

Most
Wonderfully Weird Film: Cool
World

         
Runners
Up: Ms.
45
,
EurekaLiving
Out Loud

Best Female Performance (tied): Judy Davis in Husbands
and Wives
, Laura Dern in Citizen
Ruth

         
Runners
Up: Meryl Streep in Silkwood,
Julianne Moore in Boogie
Nights
,
Kyōko Kishida in Woman
in the Dunes
,
Mia Farrow and Juliette Lewis in 

Husbands and Wives

Best Male Performance: Nick Nolte in Affliction

         
Runners
Up: James Coburn in Affliction,
Gene Hackman in The
Royal Tenenbaums

and Cisco
Pike
,
Tom Cruise in Magnolia

Best
Ensemble Cast: Husbands
and Wives

Most
Enjoyable Ham: Theresa Russell in Whore

         
Runners Up: Theresa Russell in Physical
Evidence
,
Antonio Fargas in Whore,
Richard Gere in Breathless,
Eric Roberts in Best
of the Best

Best
Screen Couple: Meryl Streep and Kurt Russell (and Cher) in Silkwood

         
Runners Up: Tom Cassett and Sione Vailahi in Body
Slam
,
Tatsuya Fuji and Kazuko Yoshiyuki in Empire
of Passion
,
Kyōko Kishida and Eiji Okada in Woman
in the Dunes

           Honorable
Mention: Gene Hackman and S. Epatha Merkerson in Loose
Cannons

Best
Cinematography (tied): Hour
of the Wolf
(Sven Nykvist), Empire
of Passion
(Yoshio Miyajima)

         
Runners
Up: Blade
Runner

(Jordan Cronenweth), High
and Low

(Asakazu Nakai and Takao Saitō), Intentions
of Murder

(Shinsaku Himeda), The
Mirror

(Georgi Rerberg), Black
Rain

(Takashi Kawamata), Ballad
of Orin

(Kazuo Miyagawa), Cries
and Whispers

(Sven Nykvist), Woman
in the Dunes

(Hiroshi Segawa)

Best
Score: Ballad
of Orin

(Tōru Takemitsu)

           Runners
Up: Black
Rain
(Tōru Takemitsu), Empire
of Passion
(Tōru Takemitsu), Woman in the Dunes (Tōru Takemitsu), Intentions
of Murder
(Toshirō Mayuzumi), Blade
Runner
(Vangelis)

Best
Locations: High
and Low

         
Runners
Up: Intentions
of Murder
,
Ballad
of Orin
,
Woman
in the Dunes
,
Profound
Desires of the Gods
,
Ivan’s
Childhood
,
Empire
of Passion

Best
Constructed World: Blade
Runner

         
Runners
Up: Cool
World
,
Fire
and Ice

         
Honorable
Mention: Fantastic
Mr. Fox

Best
Hunk: Rick Rossovich in Paint
It Black

         
Runners
Up: Gene Hackman in Cisco
Pike
,
Kurt Russell in Silkwood,
John C. Reilly in Magnolia
and The
Hours
,
Burt Reynolds in Physical
Evidence

          Honorable
Mention: Takuzō Kawatani in Empire
of Passion
, M.C. Gainey in Citizen
Ruth
, Ricky Tomlinson in Butterfly
Kiss