You can't have the good without the bad.

It's a fact of life that not all movies can be winners. And that's OK! But since we talked about the movies we've loved so far this year, we'll also take time to quickly acknowledge the ones we didn't love as much.

Here are the year's five worst movies so far.

5. 'Scary Movie'

There's a scene in the new "Scary Movie," the sixth movie in the series and the first one the Wayans have been involved with since 2001's "Scary Movie 2," where the Epstein files are found inside a cloned body during a parody of "The Substance." Is that even a joke, or is that just a reference to two things? Somewhere along the line these movies ceased being spoofs and became just a checklist of references, and that's the same time they became exhausting rather than funny. (In theaters)

4. 'They Will Kill You'

Co-writer and director Kirill Sokolov's tiresome, repetitive, entirely self-satisfied action romp stars Zazie Beetz as a woman facing down a cult of satanists in a New York City hotel. It's a blood-soaked bore. (Now streaming on HBO Max)

3. 'Iron Lung'

The flip side to the "Obsessions" and "Backrooms" sensation is YouTuber-turned-filmmaker Markiplier's murky, utterly impenetrable horror film about a submarine ride to hell. I've never felt more trapped inside a theater than watching this and trying to make heads or tails of what was even going on. (Available for rental)

2. 'In the Grey'

Guy Ritchie's slick action thriller feels like it had the first and last 10 minutes lopped off of it, as viewers are thrown into a criminal caper where everyone talks like characters inside of a criminal caper and nothing has any stakes or weight or value, except for the billions of dollars supposedly floating between characters. It feels like more of a parody than even "Scary Movie" does, except not on purpose. (Available for rental)

1. 'Outcome'

If you don't run a major movie studio — and there's approximately 349 million Americans who don't — there is so little to grab onto in Jonah Hill's flat comic tale about a star on the verge of cancellation that it manages to make even Keanu Reeves come across as unlikable, and that's a very difficult thing to do. (Available on Apple TV)

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