The Worst of December 2017

Worst Drama (tied): Chocolate
City
,
Why
Did I Get Married?

Worst Comedy: Deck
the Halls

           Runners Up: Christmas
with the Kranks
, Kazaam,
Jingle
All the Way 2

Worst Romcom: Larry
Crowne

Worst Performance (tied): Hulk
Hogan in Santa
with Muscles
, Stephen Lack
in Scanners

Most Embarrassing Performance: Matthew
Broderick in Deck
the Halls

           Runner Up: John Travolta in
The
Experts

Worst
Ensemble Cast: Why
Did I Get Married?

Biggest Waste of Talent: Martha
Plimpton in Beautiful
Girls

Worst Screen Couple: Timothy
Hutton and Natalie Portman in Beautiful
Girls

           Runners Up: Julia Roberts
and Tom Hanks in Larry
Crowne

Most Garish Film:  Deck
the Halls

         
Runners
Up:
Chocolate
City
,
Kazaam

Most Problematic Film: Beautiful
Girls

           Runners Up: I
Love You, Daddy
,
Kazaam

           Honorable Mention: No
Good Deed

Most Overrated Film: The
Big Sick

           Runners Up: I,
Tonya
, Baby
Driver
, Okja

Most Shameless Vanity Project: Barbra:
The Music… The Mem’ries… The Magic!

           Runners Up: Larry
Crowne
,
I
Love You, Daddy

Best Worst Film: Larry
Crowne

           Runner
Up: Deck
the Halls

The Best of December 2017

Best
Drama (tied): Inglourious
Basterds
,
The
Hateful Eight

           Runner
Up: Three
Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best
Comedy (tied): This
Is Spinal Tap
,
Slap
Shot

           Runner
Up: The
Jerk

Best
Documentary: Original
Cast Album: Company

           Runner
Up: Broadway:
The American Musical

Best
Adventure: The
Neverending Story

Best
Horror (tied): The
Fly
,
Videodrome

Most
Wonderfully Weird Film (tied): Videodrome,
eXistenZ

           Runners
Up: Crash,
Uptight

Best
Dramatic Performance (tied): Christoph Waltz in Inglourious
Basterds
,
Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis in The
Fly

           Runner
Up: Jennifer Jason Leigh in eXistenZ,
James Woods in Videodrome

Best
Comic Performance: Julia
Roberts in Larry
Crowne

           Runners
Up: Christopher Guest in This
Is Spinal Tap
,
Tiffany Haddish in Girls
Trip

Best
Live Performance: Elaine Stritch in Elaine
Stritch at Liberty

Best
Ensemble Cast: This
Is Spinal Tap

           Runner
Up: Slap
Shot

Best
Screen Couple: Geena Davis and Jeff Goldblum in The
Fly

           Runner
Up: Larenz Tate and Nia Long in Love
Jones

Best
Production Design: The
Neverending Story

Best
Original Score (tied): Howard Shore, The
Fly
,
Videodrome,
eXistenZ
and Crash

           Runners
Up:
Ennio
Morricone, The
Hateful Eight
and
Klaus Doldinger, The
Neverending Story

           Honorable
Mention: Johnny Greenwood, You
Were Never Really Here

Best
Original Song: “The Neverending Story Theme” from The
Neverending Story

          Runner
Up: “Big Bottom” from This
Is Spinal Tap

Best
Hunk (tied): Elias Koteas in Crash,
John
Getz in The
Fly
,
Charlie Day in I
Love You, Daddy
,
Mike Colter in Girls
Trip
,
Denis Ménochet in Inglourious
Basterds