10 Anticipated 2016 Movies That Have Already Lost The Oscar Race
5. Voyage Of Time
The Buzz: Terrence Malick's decades-in-the-making documentary about the beginning and inevitable end of our universe, accompanied by narration from Cate Blanchett.
A movie of this sort is always going to be an outside Oscar contender, but Malick is a one-of-a-kind talent and has an extremely passionate fanbase, who helped him score a Best Director nomination for 2011's The Tree of Life.
If Malick's latest somehow lives up to the 40 years of anticipation, it could very well be a stone-cold masterpiece.
Why It's Already Lost: After all that hype, reviews have proven disappointingly mixed, with its visuals receiving near-universal praise, but its thematic content? Not so much.
Sight and Sound called it "so pompous that it's wide open to satire", while NOW Toronto perhaps summed it up best by declaring it "absolutely gorgeous and utterly tedious".
Anyone hoping that Malick might score another Best Director nod by way of a passion vote should probably check that hope at the door right now.