Metacritic is one of the largest American websites dedicated to aggregating reviews of music albums, games, films and series. The website calculates the average of critics’ ratings, which is intended to approximate the reviewers’ sentiments towards a given production. As every year, the website publishes a ranking of the worst films released in the last 12 months.
The worst movies of 2023. Even the star cast didn’t help some
The list includes 15 productions that were released in the United States in 2023. Metacritic only took into account films that had more than four reviews from professional critics. Some items may surprise you.
The animation “Five Nightmare Nights” took 15th place with 33 percent positive ratings. In Poland, it was one of the most anticipated films, as evidenced by its box office results. The production took second place on the list of the best weekend debuts in our country and was only overtaken by the great hit – “Barbie”. The 14th place was taken by the romantic comedy “Love Again”, and just ahead of it was Zack Snyder’s famous film, available on Netflix, “Rebel Moon Part 1: Firechild”.
“God Is a Bullet”, a thriller with Jamie Foxx, received only 31 percent positive reviews. A similar result was recorded in the horror film “Pet Sematary: The Origins”. The top ten was opened by “The Expendables 4” with a score of 30 percent, which was also achieved by the ninth position on the list – “Fear the Night”.
Eighth place was taken by Charlie Day’s comedy “The Lucky One”, and the same result (27 percent) was also achieved by “The Killer Club”, a Spanish-American actioner with Sam Neill. In turn, the horror film “Observed”, which hit Polish cinemas in October, received only 25 percent positive reviews.
Horror, action, comedy, but it’s all one big drama. Metacritic has published its list of the worst films of 2023
The top five worst films of 2023 on Metacritic open with “Freelance” with John Cena. The fourth position belongs to another horror film – “Children of the Corn”, the first screening of which took place three years earlier.
On the podium was “After Death” – a fictionalized documentary about the study of the afterlife – with a score of 22 percent. Second place and 19 percent of positive ratings went to the film “With God’s Help”. Sean McNamara’s drama tells the story of a passenger in a plane in which the pilot died. Doug White (Dennis Quaid) attempts to land.
The worst film of 2023, according to data collected by Metacritic, was “Pooh: Blood and Honey”. The horror film is based on one of children’s favorite fairy tales and premiered in Poland in March this year. Critics had no mercy for the film, its score was only 16 percent. Polish reviewers also did not like the production. On the Filmweb website, Łukasz Adamski from TVP Kultura rated the film one star. “During the screening, I looked like Eeyore after suffering stomach poisoning. This film is like honey, but from the ears,” he wrote. Karolina Korwin Piotrowska also rated the picture “one”.
Despite poor reviews, the production recorded a good financial result in cinemas also in Poland. On the opening weekend, the production was watched by 77,000 viewers. It was only beaten by “John Wick 4”, which had its second weekend in first place with a total of 310,000 tickets sold.
Source: Gazeta
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