10 Actors Who Gave Great Performances In TERRIBLE Recent Movies

10. Russell Crowe - The Pope's Exorcist

Though it actually wasn't the worst movie about exorcism released in 2023 (we'll get to that later) The Pope's Exorcist was nevertheless an agonisingly unambitious, by-the-numbers possession flick made memorable only by Russell Crowe's wonderfully idiosyncratic central performance.

As meme-worthy, scooter-riding exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth, Crowe is clearly having an absolute blast, rocking an honestly pretty good Italian accent and elevating the entire enterprise through his sheer charismatic thrall.

Crowe basically committed harder to this blatant paycheck role than anyone could've reasonably anticipated, and the result is a film that would've been forgotten in a week without his bizarrely dedicated effort.

Instead, it's become something of a guilty pleasure among horror fans over the past few months. You know it's not good - and, often, it's actually genuinely awful - and yet, Crowe's performance has an infectiously entertaining quality to it that can't help but bleed into the rest of the movie.

A sequel has already been confirmed, and so as long as Crowe returns with the exact same aura, it'll honestly be tough to resist taking a punt.