10 brutal reviews from the January movie dump

Enjoy the best jabs at the worst movies

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January. It's a special time of year, when bad movies with big stars are dropped into theaters and left for dead. As audiences catch up on big holiday blockbusters and buzzy awards contenders, pretty much every Hollywood studio lines up to unload its worst films before looking ahead to the prospect of a new (and hopefully better) cinematic year to come. So in a month full of stinkers, which movies have earned the dubious distinction of being the worst of the worst? Here's what the critics have to say about 10 of the worst-reviewed cinematic failures released so far in 2013:

1. The Last Stand, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Johnny Knoxville, and Peter Stormare (59 percent positive reviews):

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Jillian Rayfield is a freelance writer in New York. In the past, she has written for Salon, MSNBC, Rolling Stone, New York Magazine's Daily Intel, and Talking Points Memo.