10 Worst Movies Of 2021

While Hollywood is still reeling from the impact of the last two years and adjusting to "the new normal" in an uncertain, possibly streaming-centric future, 2021 still served up a ton of terrific movies both in cinemas and at home.

But we can't have the good without also enduring the bad, and so it's undeniable that the past 12 months have also seen their fair share of cinematic slop served up on screens both big and small.

The worst in film in 2021 ranged from embarrassingly lazy genre fare sent straight to streaming to more glossy films inexplicably released in cinemas worldwide.

While in most of these cases the writing was on the wall that a dud was incoming, it's still staggering just how low these no-effort thrillers, comedies, horrors, and action flicks dared to go.

With some of these projects not even clearing the basic technical expectations of a movie starring actual actors released for the world to see, anyone who dared watch was surely left wondering quite what the hell happened.

If you were unfortunate enough to see any of these movies, you sat through the worst of the worst...

The marketing for Sweet Girl actually suggested a pretty fun schlock-fest, centered around a father (Jason Momoa) and daughter (Isabela Merced) taking on the pharmaceutical company which killed their wife and mother by delaying the release of a life-saving drug.

Despite the appealing pairing of Momoa and Merced, Sweet Girl is little more than an avalanche of action-thriller cliches, and while that alone might not sound egregious enough to earn it a spot on a worst-of list, the truly awful third-act twist absolutely clinches it.

Without giving the big reveal away in case you're planning a future hate-watch, Sweet Girl climaxes with a rug-pull so spectacularly stupid that it basically invalidates everything that came before.

It's a lazy twist that's been overused far too much over the last 20-or-so years, and within the context of this story feels especially manipulative.

For a film that actually could've said something meaningful about Big Pharma, this was a total miss, though the ridiculous twist does at least rouse some unintentional comedy.