15 Most Underrated Movies Of 2018

15. Mowgli: Legend Of The Jungle

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 52% (5.4/10 average score)

Andy Serkis' Mowgli always seemed destined to have a tough time with critics and audiences alike, releasing just a few years after Jon Favreau's rapturously received The Jungle Book. Furthermore, it brought with it the stink of lengthy production delays and the suspicious "acquired by Netflix" release strategy.

But to Serkis' credit, his Mowgli isn't just a dispassionate retread of Rudyard Kipling's beloved source material: this is a bleak, violent and often shockingly disturbing film that, in honesty, isn't really for kids at all.

Much has been made of Mowgli's unsettling digital animals - which attempt to incorporate the actors' likenesses into the animals' faces - and while it doesn't always totally work, for the most part the effects are wonderfully expressive (alongside some remarkable performances).

Ambitious yet undeniably flawed, Mowgli has future cult classic status written over it.