20 Most Surprising Rotten Tomatoes Scores Of 2019

15. The Laundromat (41%)

Steven Soderbergh is one of the most reliable filmmakers working today, and prior to the release of The Laundromat, of the 20+ feature films he's made over the last 20 years, only three of them were critical duds.

Following a 14-film streak of critical acclaim, this dramatisation of the Panama Papers scandal seemed like another slam dunk for the director, especially with his regular collaborator Scott Z. Burns penning the screenplay.

But with all this filmmaking talent and an all-star cast including Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, and Antonio Banderas, The Laundromat was a smug, meandering, needlessly meta misfire with a questionable dual performance from Streep, where one of her roles requires her to don "brownface."

It was ultimately more weird and baffling than outright awful, yet accepting Soderbergh's tenacious filmmaking instincts, this can be forgiven as an incredibly rare blip.