“There are bad movies, there are really bad movies, and then there’s Lumina,” writes film critic Brian Tallerico for RogerEbert.com in his 0-star review, just one of many critiques of what may be the worst film of 2024 (though it has stiff competition with Armor, the first movie to get a 0% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes since 2020). The sci-fi movie Lumina ostensibly follows Alex and his friends after flashes of bright lights lead to the disappearance of Alex’s girlfriend. The group journeys through the desert and an underground military base, realizing that they’re getting closer to a big alien conspiracy. Of course, it’s difficult to parse this out from the incoherent filmmaking.
An incoherent sci-fi mess topped Metacritic’s list of the worst films of 2024, and other critics absolutely hated it too. Read More