10 Terrible Movies That Tricked You Into Thinking They're Good

While a good portion of moviegoers will take a Best Picture Oscar win as ultimate proof of a film being "objectively good," that's obviously not the case. Just look at Green Book.

From one of the filmmakers behind Dumb and Dumber and There's Something About Mary comes a painfully simplistic race relations drama that begs white audiences to pat themselves on the back as they consider, "Why can't we all just get along?"

As compelling as the respectively Oscar-nominated and Oscar-winning performances from Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali are, Green Book treated its fraught, loaded subject matter with kid gloves, packaging it into painfully gooey feel-good nonsense that filtered a profoundly Black story through the experiences of a white man, because of course it did.

Within minutes of Green Book winning Best Picture, critics busily began comparing it to Crash's equally eyebrow-raising 2006 win, and even barely four years after Green Book triumphed, many commentators have deemed it one of the worst and most poorly-aged Best Picture winners ever.

While there's no denying that the pushback against the film would've been considerably less severe had it not won the grandest honour in Hollywood, it's a film that felt profoundly dated and ill-intentioned the moment it hit the screen.

Can we please leave these aggressively naive, yawn-inducingly broad films about race back in the '90s where they belong?