TOP 10 MOST OVERRATED ALBUMS OF 2023:

 

As year-end lists flood in with the various albums critics deem important/the best, here are my picks for those that just seemed a bit too hyped:

 

1.Wednesday RAT SAW GOD (METACRITIC SCORE 8.9/10): 

utterly plain and unremarkable. 

 

2. Billy Woods & Kenny Segal MAPS (METACRITIC SCORE 9.0/10): 

not sure why stoner rap gets such adoration but here we are. 

 

3. Lankum FALSE LANKUM (METACRITIC SCORE 8.9/10): 

a decent batch of traditional folk songs but hardly a revolution. 

 

4. Earl Sweatshirt and The Alchemist VOIR DIRE (METACRITIC SCORE 8.3/10): 

Sweathirt got critics bamboozled and it continues to baffle me. 

 

5. Kara Jackson 

WHY DOES THE EARTH GIVE US PEOPLE TO LOVE? (METACRITIC SCORE 9.0/10): Jackson just sounds bored right through. 

 

6. Armand Hammer WE BUY DIABETIC TEST STRIPS (METACRITIC SCORE 8.7/10): 

just sounds lazy and no effort scattered around. 

 

7. Mitski THIS LAND IS INHOSPITABLE AND SO ARE WE (METACRITIC SCORE 9.0/10): 

slowly finding her way back but she’s nowhere at the top of her game here yet. 

 

8. Amaarae FOUNTAIN BABY (METACRITIC SCORE 9.5/10): 

has some fun and clever tracks but this would have earned it’s high marks and praises more if it were halved into an EP. 

 

9. Young Fathers HEAVY HEAVY (METACRITIC SCORE 8.6/10):

 sounds jittery and randomly all over the place. 

 

10. Boygenius THE RECORD (METACRITIC SCORE 9.0/10): 

decent but certainly not earth-shattering. 

TOP 15 WORST FILMS OF 2023 (THAT I SAW):

 

Bad films happen but let's get them out of the way now!

1.WINNIE THE POOH: BLOOD AND HONEY (directed by Rhys Waterfield): 

the budget was $100,000. That’s all you need to know about this shitshow.

 

2. DON’T LOOK AWAY (directed by Michael Bafaro): 

a killer mannequin that only kills—or moves for that matter—once you look away. Yup, ideas are running extremely low in the horror genre of late. 

 

3. THE PRICE WE PAY (directed by Ryuhai Kitamura): 

feels like three bad ideas mashing into one very bad film flush with incredibly bad writing.

 

4. PET SEMETARY: BLOODLINES (directed by Lindsey Anderson Beer):

 to be fair, I guess someone was going to try and finally explore some origin story of the Stephen King novel but in the hands of Beer, nothing connects...especially the wooden acting and atrocious writing. 

  

5. THE FLOOD (directed by Brandon Slagle ) 

feels utterly reductive. 

 

6. TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS (directed by Steven Caple Jr.) 

all the money spent and the robots talk and move so terribly?

 

7. THE BLACK DEMON (directed by Adrian Grunberg) 

feels insufferable, especially it’s one-dimensional writing.

 

8. RETRIBUTION (directed by Nimrod Antal) 

its about time Neeson give up the TAKEN ghost.

 

9. KNIGHTS OF THE ZODIAC (directed by Tomasz Bagiński)  

nothing is wrong with mixing a little myth with live action but this flop is clearly not it.

 

10. MEG 2: THE TRENCH (directed by Ben Wheatley) 

really messed its shark suspense up.