Ranking August 2016's Movies - From Worst To Best

It's hard to make a case for 2016's summer of movies being anything other than, well, pretty damn disappointing. Especially as far as blockbuster fare goes.

August rounded things out with one major, colossal let-down from the big-hitters, while indie thrillers and low-key genre films thankfully picked up the slack.

Oscar season now looms, which means September will see a mixture of summer dregs and awards hopefuls, including Yoga Hosers, The Light Between Oceans, Sully, Bridget Jones's Baby, Snowden, Blair Witch, The Magnificent Seven, Storks, Deepwater Horizon and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.

Strap in, because it's either about to get a whole lot better, or somehow even worse. Gone are the litany of underwhelming tentpoles, but flaccid Oscar bait can frankly be just as bad if not even more disastrous.

Here are August 2016's movies ranked from worst to best...

RottenTomatoes Score: 9% (2.6/10 average score)

Box Office: Made for an incredulous $30 million (likely going largely to its stars' paychecks), Nine Lives fell below financial expectations and to date still hasn't quite clawed back its price tag yet. A failure worth cheering, then.

Verdict: Let's face it: nobody expected this "Kevin Spacey gets turned into a cat" movie to score above 10% on the Tomatometer, and it duly lives down to those expectations.

Spacey is phoning it in as an icky Donald Trump-type, Christopher Walken shows up briefly for an easy paycheck, and the film's tone shifts dramatically as suicide becomes a plot-point later on.

It's all kinds of wrong and, short of something truly diabolical coming down the pike over the next four months, it's got the Worst Picture Razzie award basically sewn up. Terrible.