The Worst Movies of 2023

2023 was an amazing yr for films; simply one of the best yr for films up to now this decade. And even higher, it was yr for film theaters. After an extended, painful stretch the place it seemed like multiplexes had been in deep trouble, I noticed so a number of films in 2023 in packed theaters. Even with a strike, Barbie, Oppenheimer, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Taylor Swift, and others saved auditoriums full all yr lengthy.

(I’ll always remember going to see a press screening at a New York City multuplex on a Monday evening in late July — not normally the busiest time for theaters — and having to push my method by means of a sea of moviegoers, all outfitted in scorching pink.)

Of course, it wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows on the films in 2023. Despite an above-average yr for cinema general, we nonetheless had some out-out-and stinkers this yr as effectively. That contains screwy sequels, dangerous biopics, terrible motion movies, blockbuster blunders, and one of the worst and most shameless cash-ins on a revered and recognizable youngsters’s model I’ve ever seen in my whole life.

Below, I’ve ranked the 15 worst films I personally noticed in 2023. Plenty are huge theatrical releases — a pair had been contenders for the largest finances films of the yr — however a pair bypassed theaters fully for the huge and unreliable world of streaming, the place the flicks are sometimes dangerous however the fee of viewing is low — until you measure value within the treasured moments of your life you lose watching a crappy rom-com starring Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher.

Here now are my picks for the worst films of 2023, ranked from virtually watchable to borderline pestilential…

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