The Worst of July 2018

Most
Overrated Film: Scent
of a Woman
,
Hush

         
Runners
Up: Inside
Moves
,
WarGames

           Honorable
Mention: The
Red Shoes
,
Persona

Film
with Worst Tonal Issues: Popeye

          Runner Up: Inside Moves

Film
with Worst Logic Issues: Inside
Moves

         
Runners Up: HushChina Moon

Worst
Performance: Liv Tyler in Cookie’s
Fortune

Most
Overrated Performance: Al Pacino in Scent
of a Woman

           Runner
Up: Diana Scarwid in Inside
Moves

Worst
Screen Couple: John
Savage and Diana Scarwid in Inside
Moves

           Runners
Up: Ed Harris and Madeleine Stowe in China
Moon
,
Sigourney Weaver and Bryan Brown in Gorillas
in the Mist
,
Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah in Roxanne,
Madeleine Stowe and Aidan Quinn in Blink

Most
Unsightly Screen Presence: Aidan Quinn in Blink

           Runners
Up: Ed Harris in China
Moon
,
Al Pacino in Scent
of a Woman

Best
Worst Film: Harley
Davidson and the Marlboro Man

           Runner
Up:
Lady
Chatterley’s Lover

The Best of July 2018

Best
New Discovery: Where
Is Kyra?

         
Runner
Up: Star
80

Best
Rewatch: Maps
to the Stars

         
Runners Up: Spider,
Nostalghia,
Carol

Best
Leading Performance (tied): Eric Roberts in Star
80
,
Rooney Mara in Carol

         
Runners
Up: Ralph Fiennes in Spider,
Michelle Pfeiffer in Where
Is Kyra?
,
Cate Blanchett in Carol,
Linda Fiorentino in The
Last Seduction

Best
Supporting Performance (tied): Miranda Richardson in Spider,
Julianne Moore in Maps
to the Stars

         
Runners
Up: Julianne Moore in Cookie’s
Fortune
,
Rick Rossovich in Roxanne, John Cusack in Maps to the Stars

Best
Ensemble Cast: Spider

         
Runner
Up: Maps
to the Stars

         
Honorable
Mention: Cookie’s
Fortune

Most
Enjoyable Ham: Eric Roberts in The
Ambulance

         
Runner
Up:

Lesley Ann Warren in Victor Victoria,

Nicol Williamson in Excalibur,
James Earl Jones in The
Ambulance

Best
Screen Couple: Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett in Carol

         
Runner
Up: Brad Davis and Franco Nero in Querelle,
Elias Koteas and Burgess Meredith in Full
Moon in Blue Water

Best
Production Design: Dune

         
Runners
Up: Querelle,
Alien

         
Honorable
Mention: The
Illustrated Man

Best
Locations (tied): Spider,
Nostalghia

         
Runners
Up: Excalibur,
Solaris

Best
Hunk: Franco Nero in Querelle

         
Runners
Up: Nicholas Clay in
Lady
Chatterley’s Lover
,
Rick Rossovich in Roxanne,
Brad Davis and Günther Kaufmann in Querelle,
Gene Hackman in The
Package
,
Mississippi
Burning

and Full
Moon in Blue Water
,
Ed Harris in Alamo
Bay
, Jack Lemmon in Missing
and Save
the Tiger

         
Honorable
Mention: Gunnar Björnstrand in The
Seventh Seal
,
Brian Keith in Run
of the Arrow
,
Rod Steiger in The
Illustrated Man

Best
Unintentional Homoeroticism: The
Illustrated Man

         
Runners
Up: Harley
Davidson and the Marlboro Man
,
Excalibur

Coziest
Film: The
Illustrated Man

         
Runners
Up: Something
Wicked This Way Comes
,
Roxanne