Top rated slow and plodding movies that are also needlessly complicated

Check out today’s highest ranked slow and plodding and needlessly complicated movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are slow and plodding and needlessly complicated, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 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 4.87
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    incoherent
  2. Ranked #1 for
    confusing mess
  3. Ranked #1 for
    begging the question

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2 Zeros and Ones (2021)

Called to Rome to stop an imminent terrorist bombing, a soldier desperately seeks news of his imprisoned brother — a rebel with knowledge that could thwart the attack. Navigating the capital's darkened streets, he races to a series of ominous encounters to keep the Vatican from being blown to bits.

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2021-11-18 | War / Thriller

Cast

Ethan Hawke, Cristina Chiriac

Rating

rating icon 4.867
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    incomprehensible
  2. Ranked #1 for
    just plain dumb
  3. Ranked #1 for
    headache

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3 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 3.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    real downer
  2. Ranked #2 for
    pretty picture
  3. Ranked #3 for
    scream queen

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4 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 4.4
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People's Taste Ranking

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

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5 The Return (2020)

After the death of his father, a brilliant college student returns to his family home where he learns that the horrors from his childhood aren't as dead and gone as he once thought.

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2020-09-05 | Horror / Science Fiction

Cast

Richard Harmon, Sara Thompson

Rating

rating icon 6.836
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    fiery climax
  2. Ranked #1 for
    satisfying resolution
  3. Ranked #2 for
    ultimately satisfying

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6 Them (2021)

Humans live in a comfortable dream that repeats itself. They control the dream. They were humans once too. Some humans wake up, most don't. Daniel wakes to be told that things could be different. Daniel believes it. For a while at least.

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2021-11-01 | Science Fiction / Thriller

Cast

Sian Altman, John-Christian Bateman

Rating

rating icon 2.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    for intellectual exercise
  2. Ranked #2 for
    semiotic topic
  3. Ranked #2 for
    perpetual

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7 The Devil's Machine (2019)

Antique expert Brendon Cole is summoned to authenticate a 300-year-old clockwork doll with a notoriously dark history known as The Inferno Princess. In the remote Highlands mansion where it has recently been uncovered, Brendon soon finds himself the victim of the automaton’s legendary curse as the malevolent forces surrounding it are terrifyingly awakened.

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2019-03-02 | Horror

Cast

Jamie Scott Gordon, Erich Redman

Rating

rating icon 4.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    Baroque imagery
  2. Ranked #1 for
    effectively creepy
  3. Ranked #1 for
    moody lighting

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8 The Siren (2019)

Tom, a mute man is on retreat to an isolated lakehouse where he meets Al, who is mourning the recent death of his husband. Starting off rather friendly, Tom and Al’s rapport slowly changes as the former befriends a mysterious woman named Nina, for whom Al can’t shake his negative suspicions.

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2019-03-02 | Fantasy / Horror

Cast

Evan Dumouchel, Margaret Ying Drake

Rating

rating icon 5.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    absolute waste
  2. Ranked #1 for
    throaty voice
  3. Ranked #1 for
    alarming

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9 Warning (2021)

Loneliness, death and the meaning of life, explored through vastly separate lives colliding in interweaving short stories set in future Earth.

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2021-10-22 | Science Fiction

Cast

Alex Pettyfer, Alice Eve

Rating

rating icon 4.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    loosely connected plot
  2. Ranked #1 for
    sadly disappointing
  3. Ranked #2 for
    deeply disappointing

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10 Broil (2020)

A listless grand-daughter, Chance Sinclair, is sentenced to live with her draconian grand-father, August after a violent incident at school and begins to question the source of her families immense wealth and power. When Chance's scheming Mom, June hires a troubled chef Sydney to poison August, the family's monstrous secrets are revealed over the course of one bloody night. Every soul is up for grabs as The Sinclair Family Games Night gets underway and Chance learns that being a part of this family is a blood-in, blood-out proposition.

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2020-10-13 | Fantasy / Horror

Cast

Avery Konrad, Jonathan Lipnicki

Rating

rating icon 4.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    boisterous
  2. Ranked #1 for
    loud
  3. Ranked #1 for
    up to par

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