The Worst of October 2018

Worst
Film:
10
Years

Most
Overrated Film:
Before
Midnight

         
Runners
Up: Thank
You for Smoking
,
Match
Point
,
First
Man
,
Funny
Girl
,
Anne
of the Thousand Days
,
American
Sniper
,
American
Hustle

           Honorable
Mention:
In
the Heat of the Night
,
Before
Sunrise
,
Before
Sunset

Worst
Performance: Lisa Langlois in Blood
Relatives

           Runners
Up: Laurent Malet in Blood
Relatives
,
Peter Weller in Leviathan,
Jennifer Lawrence in American
Hustle
,
Jonathan Rhys Meyers in Match
Point

Most
Overrated Performance: Jennifer Lawrence in American
Hustle

           Runners
Up:
Dianne Wiest in Bullets
Over Broadway
,
Lady Gaga in A
Star Is Born
,
Barbra Streisand in Funny
Girl
,
Ryan Gosling and Claire Foy in First
Man
,
Amy Adams and Christian Bale in American
Hustle

         
Honorable
Mention: Chazz Palminteri and Jennifer Tilly in Bullets
Over Broadway
,
Julie Delpy in Before
Midnight
,
Jane Fonda in The
China Syndrome

Worst
Screen Couple: Ethan
Hawke and Julie Delpy in Before
Midnight

           Runners
Up:
William Hurt and James Woods in Eyewitness,
Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif in Funny
Girl
,
Claire Foy and Ryan Gosling in First
Man
,
Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland in Lady
in the Dark

Worst
Ensemble Cast: 10
Years

           Runners
Up: Before
Midnight
,
American
Hustle

Most
Inappropriate Casting: Eyewitness

           Runner
Up: American
Hustle

Most
Irritating Screen Presence: Ludivine
Sagnier in Swimming
Pool

         
Runners
Up: Emily Mortimer in Match
Point
,
Bill Murray in Lost
in Translation
,
Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy in Before
Sunrise
,
Before
Sunset

and Before
Midnight
,
Claire Foy in First
Man
,
Oscar Isaac in 10
Years
,
Jennifer Lawrence and Christian Bale in American
Hustle
,
Jonah Hill in Don’t
Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot

Most
Unsightly Screen Presence: Jonathan
Rhys Meyers in Match
Point

         
Runner
Up: Giovanni Ribisi in Heaven,
Jeremy Renner in American
Hustle
,
Cameron Bright in Thank
You for Smoking
,
Brad Pitt in Thelma
& Louise
,
Jonah Hill in Don’t
Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot
,

Most
Obnoxious Score or Use of Music: First
Man

(Justin Hurwitz)

           Runner
Up: American
Hustle

(various)

Best
Worst Film:
Leviathan

         
Runner
Up: Before
Midnight

The Best of October 2018

Best
Drama: The
Day of the Locust

         
Runners
Up: Wedding
in White
,
The
Piano Teacher

         
Honorable
Mention: Lost
in Translation
,
Himatsuri,
The
Masseurs and a Woman
,
The
Swimmer
,
A
Star Is Born
,
Interiors

Best
Comedy: The
King of Comedy

         
Runners
Up: Six
Degrees of Separation
,
Last
Summer in the Hamptons

          Honorable
Mention: Much
Ado About Nothing
, The
World According to Garp

Most
Wonderfully Weird Film: The
Swimmer

           Runners
Up: Beyond
the Black Rainbow
, The
Mafu Cage
, Six
Degrees of Separation

Best
Male Performance (tied): Bradley Cooper in A
Star Is Born
,
Robert De Niro in The King of Comedy

         
Runners
Up: Donald Sutherland in The
Day of the Locust
,
Michael Rogers in Beyond
the Black Rainbow

           Honorable
Mention: Ben Kingsley in Death
and the Maiden
, Burgess Meredith in The
Day of the Locust
, Donald Sutherland in Six
Degrees of Separation
and The
Wolf at the Door
, Will Smith in Six
Degrees of Separation

Best
Female Performance: Isabelle Huppert in The
Piano Teacher

         
Runners
Up: Karen Black in The
Day of the Locust
,
Carol Kane in The
Mafu Cage
,
Juliette Lewis in Cape
Fear
,
Sandra Bernhard in The
King of Comedy
,
Rooney Mara in Side
Effects

         
Honorable
Mention: Sigourney Weaver in Death
and the Maiden
,
Glenn Close in The
World According to Garp
,
Charlotte Rampling in Swimming
Pool
,
Stockard Channing in Six
Degrees of Separation
,
Victoria Foyt in Last
Summer in the Hamptons

Best
Ensemble Cast: The
Day of the Locust

         
Runners
Up: Last
Summer in the Hamptons
,
Six
Degrees of Separation
,
Interiors,
Much
Ado About Nothing

Best
Screen Couple: Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson in Much
Ado About Nothing

         
Runners
Up: Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon in Thelma
& Louise
,
Sandra Bernhard and Robert De Niro in The
King of Comedy
,
Stockard Channing and Donald Sutherland in Six
Degrees of Separation
,
Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair in Marty

           Honorable
Mention: Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy in Before
Sunrise
and Before
Sunset

Most
Enjoyable Ham: Kenneth Branagh in Much
Ado About Nothing

         
Runners
Up: Emma Thompson in Much
Ado About Nothing
,
Jessica Lange and Robert De Niro in Cape
Fear
,
Bradley Cooper in American
Hustle
,
Peter Weller, Daniel Stern and Amanda Pays in Leviathan,
Jack Lemmon in The
Apartment

Best
Score: Himatsuri
(Tōru Takemitsu)

         
Runners
Up: Beyond
the Black Rainbow

(Jeremy Schmidt), The
Wolf at the Door

(Ole Schmidt), The
Day of the Locust

(John Barry), Cape
Fear

(Bernard Herrmann and Elmer Bernstein)

         
Honorable
Mention: Side
Effects

(Thomas Newman), The
Swimmer

(Marvin Hamlisch)

Best
Mise-en-scène: The
Day of the Locust

         
Runners
Up: Cape
Fear
,
Himatsuri,
Beyond
the Black Rainbow
,
Interiors,
Lady
in the Dark
,
Play
It As It Lays
,
The
Masseurs and a Woman
,
The
Swimmer

Best
Hunk: Bradley Cooper in A
Star Is Born
and American
Sniper

         
Runners
Up: Matthias Schoenaerts in Rust
and Bone
,
Sean Connery in The
Great Train Robbery
,
Kenneth Branagh and Gerard Horan in Much
Ado About Nothing
,

         
Honorable
Mention: Andy Hockley and Jimmy Yuill in Much
Ado About Nothing