10 Movies Nobody Wants To Admit Suck

Though Ready Player One received broadly positive reviews upon release, it's also a film whose slick shine wore off in near-record time, as not even Steven Spielberg's directorial ingenuity could disguise its overpowering hollowness for long.

Some might dub it a high-calorie switch-your-brain-off movie, but its core is so empty and so emblematic of Hollywood's worst current instincts, that it's tough to merely accept it as "dumb fun."

A garish car crash of pop-culture references may very much be the point of Ernest Cline's source material, but does it a good movie - or even a good story - make? Certainly not, and for all of the craft that clearly went into it, Ready Player One's a resoundingly barren endeavour, one that evacuates itself from the mind in short order and offers little incentive for a revisit.

It isn't easy to face up to the fact that Spielberg, of all people, made a movie so devoid of soul, and yet here it is.