Top rated movies with a poor character development and a shaggy-dog story

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a poor character development and a shaggy-dog story! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a poor character development and a shaggy-dog story, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 We Need to Do Something (2021)

Seeking shelter from a storm, a family finds themselves trapped in a bathroom for days with no sign of rescue and untold evils lurking just beyond the walls.

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2021-09-03 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Sierra McCormick, Vinessa Shaw

Rating

rating icon 5.341
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    final insult
  2. Ranked #1 for
    copping out
  3. Ranked #2 for
    wrapped-up nicely

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2 The Last Thing He Wanted (2020)

At the turning point of the Iran-Contra affair, Elena McMahon, a fearless investigative journalist covering the 1984 US presidential campaign, puts herself in danger when she abandons her assigned task in order to fulfill the last wish of her ailing father, a mysterious man whose past activities she barely knows.

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2020-02-14 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Anne Hathaway, Ben Affleck

Rating

rating icon 4.869
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    begging the question
  2. Ranked #1 for
    clear conscience
  3. Ranked #1 for
    incoherent

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3 Cold Blood (2019)

A legendary but retired hit man lives in peace and isolation in the barren North American wilderness. When he rescues a woman from a snowmobiling accident, he soon discovers that she's harboring a secret that forces him to return to his lethal ways.

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2019-05-15 | Thriller / Action

Cast

Jean Reno, Sarah Lind

Rating

rating icon 5.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    slow and uninteresting
  2. Ranked #1 for
    nearly fell asleep
  3. Ranked #1 for
    waste of acting talent

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4 Night Walk (2019)

Modern day Romeo and Juliet, star crossed lovers are torn apart by cultural tensions between the East and the West. Sarah takes her American boyfriend Frank to her home country in the Arab world.

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2019-10-05 | Action / Crime

Cast

Sean Stone, Mickey Rourke

Rating

rating icon 4.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    convoluted plot
  2. Ranked #1 for
    gripping screenplay
  3. Ranked #1 for
    labyrinthine plot

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5 French Exit (2021)

“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price, but things didn’t go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for 12 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris, accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm and a cat named Small Frank—who may or may not embody the spirit of Frances’s dead husband.

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2021-02-12 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges

Rating

rating icon 5.702
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    acerbic dialogue
  2. Ranked #1 for
    sarcastic dialogue
  3. Ranked #1 for
    harmless enough

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6 Scare Package II: Rad Chad’s Revenge (2022)

Following the events of the original with the survivors attending the funeral of “Rad Chad” Buckley, which quickly devolves into an elaborate series of death traps centered around Chad’s favorite films, forcing the guests to band together and use the rules of horror to survive the bloody game.

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2022-12-22 | Horror / Comedy

Cast

Jeremy King, Zoe Graham

Rating

rating icon 5.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #3 for
    series of vignettes
  2. Ranked #4 for
    vignette narrative
  3. Ranked #4 for
    wrapped-around story

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7 Unearth (2020)

The relationship between two neighboring farm families are strained when one of them chooses to lease their land to an oil and gas company. In the midst of growing tension, the land is drilled, and something long dormant and terrifying, deep beneath the earth's surface is released. "Unearth" is about the horrifying repercussions sown by short-sighted decisions, and what our children reap from our actions.

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2020-08-25 | Horror

Cast

Adrienne Barbeau, Marc Blucas

Rating

rating icon 3.87
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    pretty picture
  2. Ranked #2 for
    real downer
  3. Ranked #3 for
    falling asleep in the middle

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8 Risen (2021)

Disaster unfolds when a meteor strikes a small town, turning the environment uninhabitable and killing everything in the surrounding area. Exobiologist Lauren Stone is called to find answers to the unearthly event. As she begins to uncover the truth, imminent danger awakens and it becomes a race against time to save mankind.

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2021-08-20 | Science Fiction / Drama

Cast

Nicole Schalmo, Jack Campbell

Rating

rating icon 5.13
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    badly produced
  2. Ranked #3 for
    languid pace
  3. Ranked #3 for
    tying loose ends

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9 The Outwaters (2023)

Deep in the Mojave desert, under a scorching blood-red sun, four travelers have set up camp to make art. One fateful night, the group is thrust into a feverish tornado of flayed flesh and mind-boggling monstrosities, the likes of which mere humans simply cannot fathom.

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2023-02-09 | Horror / Science Fiction

Cast

Robbie Banfitch, Angela Basolis

Rating

rating icon 4.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    loud sound
  2. Ranked #1 for
    pitch black
  3. Ranked #1 for
    brace yourself

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10 Sometimes Always Never (2019)

Alan is a stylish tailor with moves as sharp as his suits. He has spent years searching tirelessly for his missing son Michael who stormed out over a game of Scrabble. With a body to identify and his family torn apart, Alan must repair the relationship with his youngest son and solve the mystery of an online player who he thinks could be Michael, so he can finally move on and reunite his family.

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2019-03-14 | Drama / Comedy

Cast

Bill Nighy, Sam Riley

Rating

rating icon 6.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    stylized
  2. Ranked #1 for
    deadpan humor
  3. Ranked #1 for
    dapper

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