45 terrible movies that today’s greatest actors starred in

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7 years ago

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Some of the best actors alive have been in some of the worst movies of all time.

Sometimes a movie can have a good script, but everything goes wrong in production. But many times when a movie fails, everything was bad — from concept to screenplay to performance.

Even some of the best people in the business, including the likes of Meryl Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio, Denzel Washington, Julianne Moore, and Ryan Gosling have appeared in movies critics hated.

We collected a list of some of our favorite actors working today, and decided what their worst movie was. Rotten Tomatoes scores helped us make our decisions, but the lowest critic score didn’t dictate the worst movie. We decided how prominent the roles were, which means we eliminated a lot of terrible movies from the start of everyone’s acting career. We also considered how big the movie was, how hated it was when it came out, and how hated it is now.

Here are the worst movies the best living actors have starred in, ordered from (relatively) best movie to worst:

Sandra Bullock, “The Blind Side”

Warner Brothers

Critic Score: 67%

What the critics said: “Quite how Sandra Bullock deserved an Oscar for her one-note turn as bleached supermum Leigh-Anne is a mystery, since it transforms a potentially worthwhile character study into a grandstanding star vehicle.” –Time Out

Lupita Nyong’o, “Non-Stop” (2014)

Universal

Critic Score: 59%

What the critics said: “The problem is that Non-Stop tries to be something it’s not. It has one too many scenes that border on ludicrous, and the big reveal barely makes sense.” -Globe and Mail