The 10 worst movies of the summer, according to critics

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August 31, 2018 2:21 PM

The 2018 summer movie season delivered plenty of duds at movie theaters. Here are the 13 worst, based on Rotten Tomatoes critic scores.

2018 has been a great year for movies that has reinvigorated the box office. But every year comes with the obvious duds at the cinema, and this summer is no exception.

That statement is especially true for August, which saw an unusually high number of movies that were torn apart by critics and bombed at the box office (thanks goodness for "Crazy Rich Asians"). This August was just a dumping ground for bad movies.

We gathered the 10 worst movies of summer 2018 according to critics (six of which were released in August) and ranked them from bad to worst, based on this list from review-aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes.

They range from a Melissa McCarthy R-rated puppet comedy to one of the worst-reviewed films of Mark Wahlberg's career.

Below are the 10 worst movies of the summer, according to critics:

10. "A-X-L"

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 27%

Release date: August 24

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9. "Breaking In"

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 27%

Release date: May 11

What critics said: "Breaking In'

8. "Overboard"

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 25%

Release date: May 4

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7. "The Happytime Murders"

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 22%

Release date: August 24

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6. "Mile 22"

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 21%

Release date: August 17

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5. "Action Point"

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 17%

Release date: June 1

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4. "The Darkest Minds"

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 17%

Release date: August 3

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3. "Show Dogs"

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 17%

Release date: May 18

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2. "Slender Man"

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 7%

Release date: August 10

What critics said: "Slender Man'

1. "Death of a Nation"

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 0%

Release date: August 3

What critics said: "The facts don’t matter; only the showbiz addiction of the fight matters. That and the chance to let viewers get their rage-fueled rocks off. That’s how brainwashing works in a nation that has begun to distort reality from the top down. And it’s the way that Dinesh D’Souza has always worked, going back to his campus days as a red-meat-dweeb conservative at Dartmouth." — Owen Gleiberman, Variety

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