Ranking January 2019's Movies From Worst To Best

7. Vice

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 66% (6.7/10)

Box Office: Yet another under-performing awards season release, Vice couldn't parlay the hype around Christian Bale's performance into box office gravy, with the $60 million Dick Cheney biopic barely crossing the $50 million mark to date.

If Bale wins the Best Actor Oscar the film will probably perform decently on home video, but coming off the back of director Adam McKay's The Big Short ($133.4 million), this is an undeniable disappointment.

Verdict: Though it falls short of The Big Short's brilliant synergy of writing, direction, acting and editing, Vice is nevertheless a mostly effective and often stingingly funny film.

The lion's share of the praise inevitably falls to Bale, who disappears into the role of Cheney with impressive aplomb, even when McKay's script and direction lurch into self-indulgent territory.

The entire ensemble carries their own weight in a movie that doesn't hit quite as hard as you might hope for, but is nevertheless a compellingly unconventional biopic.