HillBilly Elegy (2020)

Already critically notorious, I was still impressed by how awful and cringe-inducing this latest from the master of Oscar bait and the worst half of trite-Spielberg, Ron Howard, was. Not so much toe curling as shin snapping, Howard's worst ever manages to make Cleetus from the Simpsons seem subtle and deep. Glenn Close will likely win an Oscar but this soft-core poverty porn is the years most misguided film, the Hallmark greeting card version of Winter's Bone, with very little story and a central character who is almost entirely unsympathetic. A front runner for worst film of the year and taken all in all (including the intent of the story arc versus what it actually achieves) - the years second (Hard Kill not included as it isn't a real film) big fat zero out of ten (after We Summon the Darkness).