Josh Brolin's 8 Lowest-Scoring Movies

Josh Brolin's worst-scoring list opens with True Grit at 8.2. That's a bottom eight most actors would frame. Then it drops. A lot.

Number one is dead last on paper. I'm defending it anyway.

1. 8
   True Grit (2010)8.2

   A Coen Western in a bottom eight. Brolin's spoiled.

   95% on Rotten Tomatoes and $252.3 million worldwide, yet here it is. Brolin plays the man everyone's hunting and still gets out-scened by Jeff Bridges' eyepatch.
2. 7
   The Goonies (1985)8.0

   Critics still owe this one an apology.

   Metacritic 62, but it beat 93% of movies with audiences. $64.3 million domestic on a reported $19M budget, and every kid who saw it still quotes it.
3. 6
   Deadpool 2 (2018)7.7

   Cable rules. The movie around him is overrated.

   CinemaScore A and $785.9 million worldwide, but the Guru's Take is 6.6. Brolin plays it stone-faced while Reynolds riffs on literally everything in the room.
4. 5
   Everest (2015)6.8

   Underseen, and better than its domestic number says.

   CinemaScore A, $203.4 million worldwide on a reported $55M budget, but only $43.5 million domestic. America skipped it. Brolin is steady and the cold looks painfully real.
5. 4
   Men in Black 3 (2012)5.5

   Brolin doing young Tommy Lee Jones is the whole movie.

   A reported $215 to $250 million budget for a perfectly median 5.5 score. The only thing worth that money is Brolin's Agent K impression, which is uncanny.
6. 3
   Whalefall (2026)5.5

   A whale movie this wild should not play it this safe.

   Reported $60M budget, $15.3 million domestic, and critics and audiences split almost dead even at 51 and 49. Big premise, small swing.
7. 2
   Gangster Squad (2013)4.1

   All that cast, all those hats, a 30% on Rotten Tomatoes.

   Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone and Nick Nolte, and it beat only 18% of movies with critics. Audiences gave it a B+ anyway. Gorgeous suits, no pulse.
8. 1
   The Dog Stars (2026)3.8

   Dead last, and still better than Gangster Squad. Fight me.

   A 3.9 score and a C+ CinemaScore, but the Guru's Take is 4.6, above Gangster Squad's 4.3. Ridley Scott sci-fi with Elordi and Brolin beats pretty hats.

$643.17 says the first reply is someone typing "THE GOONIES AT 7?" in all caps.

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