8 Beloved 2010s Movies I Just Can't Love. You Can. I'll Be Over Here.

None of these are bad movies. Most are good. But my Take lands well under the movie.guru score on all eight, and here's why.

Number one made $2.94 billion. I'm still not fully on board.

1. 8
   Ready Player One (2018)6.9

   Spielberg built a great scavenger hunt, then forgot the people.

   6.9 movie.guru score, my Take 5.2. The race scene is nuts. But the characters are thinner than their avatars, and $607.9M worldwide says nobody else minded.
2. 7
   The Lion King (2019)6.7

   Photoreal lions can't make faces, so the songs lose their heart.

   Critics beat just 39% of movies, audiences 80%. My 4.9 sides with critics. Gorgeous savanna, zero expressions, and $1.66B worldwide for a nature documentary with karaoke.
3. 6
   Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)7.4

   The beasts are delightful. Everything around them is homework.

   $816M worldwide and a 7.4 score. My 5.6 is for the creatures and Dan Fogler. The rest is franchise setup wearing a very nice coat.
4. 5
   Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)7.6

   Ultron gets the best lines and the least to do.

   Over 1 million IMDb votes, a 7.6 score. My 5.8: a farmhouse detour, a cave-pool vision quest, and a villain who deserved half that screen time.
5. 4
   Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010)8.0

   Half a movie, and most of that half is camping.

   8.0 movie.guru score, Metacritic 65. My 6.3. The opening escape rules, then the trio sulks in a tent for what feels like a full semester.
6. 3
   Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)8.5

   Biggest gap on this list. The mystery box is mostly box.

   8.5 score, my 5.7, a 2.8-point gap. Cumberbatch is legit menacing and the CinemaScore was an A. The crew still gets buried under plot secrets.
7. 2
   The Imitation Game (2014)8.9

   A real genius, sanded down into a tidy awards-season puzzle.

   8.9 score, 90% on Rotten Tomatoes. Metacritic's 71 is closer to my 7.2. Cumberbatch is great and the codebreaking grips, but a complicated real life gets smoothed into formula.
8. 1
   Avengers: Endgame (2019)9.4

   Great farewell, messy movie. Both things are true.

   9.4, Elite, audiences beat 100% of movies, $2.94B worldwide. My 7.8 is for the payoff. The time-travel rules fall apart if you breathe on them.

$458.91 says the Endgame comments hit triple digits before anyone defends the Lion King remake.

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