Top 20 Worst Films Of 2019

Where 2018 as a year was characterised by filmmakers looking back on the past and seeing where they could improve, 2019 was characterised by filmmakers looking back and seeing how much worse they could do. The main theme with the worst of 2019 was films that made me look at films I had written off years ago as bad ideas, and making me realise I didn’t know how good I had it because the new take is that much worse. These are the films that defied the prevailing sense of disappointment that populated the rest of the year, but only because the main response was “how did you screw up this badly?!” Strap in for some raw anguish fuel as I count down the top 20 worst films of 2019.

A Madea Family Funeral (2019) - Movie Review

Always good to start checking out a trend right when it’s supposed to be ending, right? Yeah, I haven’t really discussed Tyler Perry’s work as a filmmaker on this blog before; hell, I’ve only seen one film he’s directed other than this one with Acrimony, which was basically Gone Girl except every single wrong decision was made during production. As such, I don’t have a whole lot of experience with the character that basically made Tyler Perry famous, save for a few stray clips here and there from videos made by other critics.

However, since this is apparently the guy who’s been dominating a sizeable amount of black cinema in the United State for the last decade and a half, and a lot of my reviews this month have been looking back at what’s made this decade’s cinema what it is, I figure this would at least give me some material to work with. And to its credit, it certainly did… along with the feeling that I was better off just leaving these things alone.