A selection of the Netflix movies that have garnered the worst Rotten Tomatoes scores in recent years, from audiences as well as critics.
Netflix adds so much content on a regular basis to its massive streaming library that it can be nearly impossible to keep track of it all. Some of it — like the most high-profile Netflix movies along the lines of Blonde, the Marilyn Monroe not-quite biopic which I reviewed here — are impossible to miss or be unaware of, even if you have no plans to watch.
For others, well, you’ve got to take a chance more often than not when it comes to giving new releases from the streamer a try, since many of them are titles you probably haven’t heard of before. Sometimes, you end up with a winner (like these two recently released seasons of Netflix TV shows that both scored 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, right out of the gate). Other times, as with the movies below, you wind up with a dud.
The list of Netflix movies to avoid could be exponentially longer than what we’ve included below. Based on Rotten Tomatoes critics’ and audience scores, though, the five titles included herein are some of the worst-reviewed Netflix movies out there, and probably worth taking a pass on if you’re looking for something new to watch.
All that said, let’s now jump right into it. In no particular order, the Netflix movies with the worst scores include:
One of the most polarizing, smug, condescending, and cynical Netflix movies I think I’ve ever come across, Don’t Look Up has such ardent fans that you’re not allowed to say anything remotely critical about it (like … this writer has) without drawing the wrath of fans who’ll dash off reproachful “How dare you” emails in response.
“Don’t Look Up is a hellishly unfunny ride through The Discourse,” a Polygon headline announced, about director Adam McKay’s film in which Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence play astronomers on a media tour to warn humanity about an apocalyptic comet hurtling toward earth.
