We've had a cracking year – proper stellar (check out our 'best of' list for proof). But not every movie can be a hit. These are the releases that landed with a splat and just didn't make the bucks expected. Unsurprisingly there's crossover with the worst films of 2017. But not as much as you might think.

Scroll right past the notes below if you don't care about what qualifies as a flop.

Note: the listed production budget for a movie typically won't include its marketing spend, so it's still possible for a film to be considered a 'flop' even if it made back more than its production budget. Therefore we've had to make some judgment calls on what makes the list, including titles that took less than expected or failed critically as well as those that were out-and-out financial disasters.

We're not including low-budget indies (because you're not a big flop if you cost buttons in the first place) or titles which got a limited release and generated their main revenue outside of theatres. It's also worth bearing in mind that the higher the budget, the higher the expected return – so a $20m film which makes $40m isn't bad while a $200m movie which makes $220m would be considered a big failure.

Another note: This year featured some franchises and franchise starters that were flops despite looking like they made quite a bit of money on paper. These include Assassin's Creed, The Mummy, Baywatch and Transformers: The Last Knight. Last Knight took $522m on a budget of $217m, which might look respectable, but for a Transformers movie that's rubbish, given the last two Transformers movie both took over $1 billion.

We're not ranking them. It's just too difficult, accounting-wise.

Live by Night

This crime drama based on a Dennis Lehane novel and directed by Ben Affleck came out to no fanfare. Released right in the middle of awards season, it received a total of zero major nominations and was liked by neither critics nor audiences. If the estimates are correct, the production budget was $108m, while worldwide takings were an insulting $22.7m. Ooof, that's got to hurt.

Patriot's Day

Despite having the word 'Patriot' in the title and being based on the real-life events surrounding the Boston Marathon bombing, response to Patriot's Day was muted. It wasn't that the reviews were bad, more that no one went to see this movie, directed by Peter Berg, the man who sank Battleship. It took $48m on a budget of $45m.

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