(Just Communication is an ongoing series of opinion pieces written by the author of Red Comet Reviews.)

I have a confession to make: I love bad movies.

I don’t mean to say that I enjoy movies indiscriminately, or that I actively wish for the ones I’m watching to be bad. But sometimes, I find myself in the middle of a more-or-less objectively terrible film that, through some stroke of inspiration or madness, ends up being just as entertaining to me as a legitimately good one.

I’ve been meaning to share this for a long time – a list of my top five ironic favorites, along with brief justifications for each entry. Think of it as a kind of reverse Criterion Collection.

Selections appear after the break.

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