The Worst of January 2018

Worst Film: Whatever
Works

           Runners Up: A
Chorus Line
,  Starting
Over
, The
Iron Lady

Worst Oscar Bait: Ricki
and the Flash

           Runners Up: The
Prince of Tides
, August:
Osage County

Worst Performance (tied): Burt Reynolds
in Starting
Over
, Rebecca De Mornay in
And
God Created Woman

Most Embarrassing Performance: Larry
David in Whatever
Works

Worst
Ensemble Cast: A
Chorus Line

Campiest Performance: Meryl Streep in
August:
Osage County

           Runners Up: Meryl Streep in
The
Iron Lady
, Pam Grier in
Coffy

Most Overrated Performance (tied):
Jennifer Connelly in A
Beautiful Mind
, Jennifer
Hudson in Dreamgirls

           Runners Up: Richard
Dreyfuss in The
Goodbye Girl
, Dustin Hoffman
in Kramer
vs. Kramer

Worst Screen Couple: Burt Reynolds and
Jill Clayburgh in Starting
Over

           Runner Up: Richard Dreyfuss
and Marsha Mason in The
Goodbye Girl

Worst live performance (tied): Clare
Foster and Mark Umbers in Merrily
We Roll Along

Most Problematic Film: Whatever
Works

           Runners Up: Working
Girl
,
Starting
Over
,
And
God Created Woman
,
Kramer
vs. Kramer

Most Overrated Film: A
Beautiful Mind

           Runners Up: Dreamgirls,
Blade
Runner 2049

           Honorable
Mention: Beasts
of the Southern Wild

Most Underwhelming Film: Blade
Runner 2049

Most Tedious Film: Dreamgirls

Most Garish Film: Dreamgirls

Most Shameless Vanity Project: The
Prince of Tides

Worst Direction: Phyllida Lloyd, The
Iron Lady

           Runner Up: Richard
Attenborough, A
Chorus Line

Best Worst Film: The
Iron Lady

           Runner
Up: A
Chorus Line

The Best of January 2018

Best
Drama (tied): Ironweed,
Barton
Fink

           Runners
Up: Secrets
& Lies
,
A
Cry in the Dark
,
Broadcast
News

Best
Comedy: Claudine

Best
Science Fiction: The
Brood

Best
Animated Feature (tied): The
Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
,
Chronopolis

Most
Wonderfully Weird Film: Naked
Lunch

           Runner
Up: Altered
States

Best
Mise-en-scène (tied): Naked
Lunch
,
Barton
Fink
Altered States

           Runner
Up: The
Piano
,
Written
on the Wind

Best
Performance by Meryl Streep (tied): A
Cry in the Dark
,
Ironweed

Best
Performance not
by Meryl Streep: Judy Davis in Naked
Lunch

           Runners
Up: Jack Nicholson in Ironweed,
John Goodman in Barton
Fink
,
Brenda Blethyn and Marianne Jean-Baptiste in Secrets
& Lies

Best
Ensemble Cast (tied): Naked
Lunch
,
Secrets
& Lies
,
Barton
Fink

Best
Screen Couple (tied): James Earl Jones and Diahann Carroll in
Claudine;
Brenda Blethyn and Marianne Jean-Baptiste in Secrets
& Lies

Best
Live Performance: Angela
Lansbury in Sweeney
Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best
Original Score: Howard Shore and Ornette Coleman, Naked
Lunch

Best
Hunk (tied): William
Hurt in Body
Heat
,
Jeff Bridges in Against
All Odds

           Runners
Up: John Goodman in Barton
Fink
,
Randall ‘Tex’ Cobb in Uncommon
Valor