The 15 Worst Movies of 2022

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – December 17, 2022

The gallery on this page contains the lowest-scoring films released in the United States between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2022. Films are ranked by Metascore (an average of grades given by top professional critics) prior to rounding, and any titles with fewer than 4 reviews are excluded. All scores are from December 16, 2022.

1 of 16 photo by Helen Sloan/Netflix

30 The School for Good and Evil

(#15) Paul Feig (Bridesmaids) wrote and directed this Netflix adaptation of the 2013 modern fairytale novel by Soman Chainani that stars (in addition to Sophia Anne Caruso and Sofia Wylie as its two young leads) Charlize Theron, Laurence Fishburne, Michelle Yeoh, Kerry Washington, Cate Blanchett, Ben Kingsley, Peter Serafinowicz, and Rob Delaney. So far, so good. So what went wrong? Just about everything, according to critics, who deemed it a campy, underdeveloped, and overstuffed Harry Potter knock-off that was a slog to sit through.

“An absolute shambles of a fantasy folly. Overlong, undercooked, and clogged with enough clichés that even its teen target audience will feel disrespected.” —John Nugent, Empire

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