Ranking March 2016's Movies - From Worst To Best

13. The Bronze

RottenTomatoes Score: 32% (4.8/10)

Box Office: Having lingered around for over a year since its rather anti-climactic Sundance premiere, this $3.5 million sports comedy has scraped back just over $600,000 to date, and resulted in the 12th-worst opening weekend for a widely-released film in history. Clearly, cynically releasing a movie on over a thousand screens just because it stars a popular sitcom actress is not very smart.

Verdict: It'll be tough to find a protagonist more easy to despise than Melissa Rauch's washed-up Olympic gymnast, for though The Bronze has some interesting, down-to-Earth musings on the nature of hope, achievement and failure, audiences will likely find her too grating and obnoxious to root for.

This would be fine if the movie committed fully to Rauch's a**hole character, but sentiment inevitably gets in the way and the tonally jarring script attempts to turn things around for her. It doesn't work, and it's horribly unpalatable in a way so few films are.