47.) Ant-Man [7/31/2015]

If there was a time it became clear that Marvel no longer was interested in telling good stories which happen to feature superheroes, and instead is more interested in telling "Marvel" stories (whatever that might be), Ant-Man would be the ground zero for that epidemic; here was an opportunity for Marvel to right the ship which has started to drift towards mediocrity with Avengers 2 by letting a unique director tell an interesting story in his own stylized way, but instead they went with Iron Man featuring ants, which is the safe and retread territory.

46.) Irrational Man [7/30/31]

Woody Allen has one central trope in a lot of his later movies: a young girl falls in love with an older man, which is fine, but at times can be distracting; this movie had a clever central conceit (which I can't talk much about since it will give away the whole film), but it was lost in an unnecessary love triangle in which a broken older man who is a known radical and misunderstood by most, a clear stand-in for Woody Allen, was caught between two women ready to abandon their committed (and seemingly decent) relationships.

45.) Mr. Holmes [7/27/2015]

It's hard not to like Ian McKellen, and this was a role which seemed to be written for him; that said, the movie, which examined the role of memory and the nature of knowing along the backdrop of post-WWII Europe, seemed really muddled in places with ideas and story pieces feeling undeveloped (which left me to wonder if the book, A Slight Trick of the Mind, might be a better way of telling this story), and also the movie also didn't need to have Sherlock Holmes in it, as there was nothing particularly unique about the detective in the film; in short, no bad, but not really good either.

44.) Terminator: Genisys [7/6/2015]

The Terminator franchise is built on the idea that the end-game for robots and artificial intelligence is human extinction, so that this movie trots out that tired and worn trope is not surprising; what was surprising was how good Arnold Schwarzenegger was in such a bad film, stuffed with unnecessary complications, poor performances, and a dogged reverence to the original series.