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.

2 of 16 photo by Mark Fellman/Netflix

30 Purple Hearts

(#14) The second (and far from the last) Netflix original film on our list, Purple Hearts was deemed a "Nicholas Sparks knockoff" by Variety for its thin and overly sentimental romantic storyline of a singer-songwriter (Disney Channel star Sofia Carson) whose marriage to a Marine (Nicholas Galitzine) for financial reasons leads to tragedy.

“The film wallows in contrived plots and subplots, made worse by the dearth of chemistry between the two leads.” —Claire Shaffer, The New York Times

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