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From inept tentpoles to an auteur misfire, laugh-free comedies to a particularly exploitative disaster flick, these were the worst movies of the year.

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00:00They can't all be winners. As we look back on the year in film, the Hollywood Reporter

00:10critics have picked their least favorite movies of 2017.

00:13Before we get to the top or bottom five worst films of 2017, let's quickly show you our

00:18critics' picks for numbers 10 through 6. The 10th worst movie of the year?

00:22Home Again, starring Reese Witherspoon. Coming in at number 9, Werner Herzog's

00:26Queen of the Desert featuring Nicole Kidman, Baywatch led by Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron

00:30checks in at number 8, DC superhero team-up Justice League takes the seventh slot, and

00:35the long-awaited adaptation of Joe Nesbo's The Snowman comes in sixth.

00:40And now, let's take a look at the five worst films of 2017.

00:44At number 5, we have a film that THR critic John DeFore describes as limp and thrill-free.

00:53Writes DeFore,

00:56coming to the film, though to be fair, his characters are stiff. An army sergeant who

01:00secretly loots antiquities from Iraqi war zones, a watered-down version of the

01:04irresistible rogue with all the irresistibility trimmed away.

01:08This is Mr. Jake Lawson.

01:10The Jake Lawson?

01:11You look much older than I would have thought.

01:14Coming in at number 4, Geostorm, or as DeFore calls it, the planetary disaster film equivalent

01:20of a two-hour call to tech support. DeFore continues, big, dumb and boring. It finds the

01:25co-writer of Independence Day hoping to start a directing career with the same playbook,

01:29but forgetting several rules of the game.

01:31Everything you need is right here. I'll be with you the whole time.

01:37City at number 3 is a Naomi Watts-led film about a boy genius. The outcome, according to

01:41DeFore, is anything but smart.

01:43Critic writes,

01:44Colin Trevorrow's catastrophic-genre hybrid, which begins as a family picture, abruptly

01:48becomes a terminal illness melodrama, then winds up a bizarro thriller with unlikely

01:54crimes plotted from beyond the grave, but not before some child molestation action pitting

01:58a defenseless girl against her stepfather, the commissioner of police.

02:02Tom McCarthy writes that Valerian, the number two film on the list, is an egregiously bloated

02:11misfire, unclear, unfun, indecipherable, indigestible, and, before long, an excellent sedative.

02:18Anyone who could clearly lay out what takes place in this narrative in 25 words or less

02:22deserves a small prize.

02:29And we've arrived at the film that our critics deem the worst of 2017, 9-11,

02:33starring Charlie Sheen and Whoopi Goldberg. Our critic, Frank Scheck, does not hold back,

02:38writing that it is a cheapo, exploitative, terribly-made disaster movie wrapping itself

02:42in the piety of one of the nation's most tragic events.

02:45So that's how critics count down for the worst films of 2017.

02:48Do you agree with the list? If not, which movies would you rescue?

02:52And what should have made the cut? Let us know in the comments.

02:54For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.

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