The 15 Worst Movies of 2016
Below are the lowest-scoring films released in the United States between January 1, 2016 and December 31, 2016. Films are ranked by Metascore (an average of grades given by top professional critics) prior to rounding, and any titles with fewer than 7 reviews are excluded.
This is the second comedy in the past two years to transport the basic story from the Greek play Lysistrata to the present day and relate it to gun violence. Unlike Chi-Raq, however, this one keeps the taste level to a bare minimum.
"Everybody involved with the awful comedy Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?... owes Aristophanes an apology. It’s one thing to borrow a guy’s premise; it’s quite another to transform it into something this unwatchable." — Neil Genzlinger, The New York Times