Machete (2010)

Machete is the cinematic equivalent of Taco Bell - cheap, junky and best consumed in low doses. That’s why it was great as a faux trailer for 2007s Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez trailer-trash epic Grindhouse, and why it falters as a full length feature flick here. Machete is an ode to bad cinema, a movie that wants to be so bad it’s good. But a movie that succeeds at being a bad movie is ultimately still just that – bad.

The Killer Inside Me (2010)

Misogyny! Sex! Violence! Welcome to hell, ladies and gentlemen.

Michael Winterbotton's latest follows in the footsteps carved with in-yer-face controversy of his previous films. Thankfully (or, depending on your taste, unfortunately) there are no ejaculating penises in sight here. But the misery, pain, and an unapologetically pessimistic worldview in which characters get tangled up in their futile dysfunction, are still present. And they form the backbone of the 'most-controversial-film-of-the-year'.