Worst Films Of 2022

I love how people can take away totally different things from a movie. 2 of these are part of my favourite films this year and 1 from last year. The magic of cinema!

5. The lost city
4. Sonic 2
3. Wendell and Wild
2. Jurassic world dominion
1. Black adam

I didn't see anything absolutely terrible this year. Just really generic and boring big budget films that seemed to make the bottom of my list and Wendell and Wild which was hugely disappointing.

Tom Hanks was WILD in that film. 🤣🤣🤣

The worst two were Disenchanted and Smile. The former I wasn't expecting much from but it was just so cheaply made and just such an obvious downgrade from the first film. Smile I went into just hoping for a kind of so bad it's good horror film but it took itself way too seriously until it was too late and the messaging in that film is all kinds of mixed up. No more horror films about trauma for god's sake!

I also did not get the love for Top Gun Maverick, i wouldnt say it was bad, just overlong and boring without the camp factor of the original (though they're on par in terms of rating for me because the film-making of Maverick was definitely superior).

Other films which I can't really call outright bad but were definitely disappointments include:

Wendell and Wild - I adore stop motion as a medium, and Coraline is a favourite so I was expecting a lot from this director, but the story was so bloated and the voice acting was surprisingly poor which isn't something I can say I've taken away from an animated film before. I enjoyed Wendell and Wild as characters thanks to Key and Peele's antics, plus tbe animation was obviously gorgeous, but this movie just had too many ideas so none of them got the proper attention they needed.

The Whale - great acting from most of the cast (though I found Samantha Morton totally unconvincing which is unusual as she's nomally a stand-out, and I've likewise seen people say she was good in this so not sure what didn't work for me) but the script is so mechanical and manipative in trying to make you cry it felt like I was trapped into doing so by the end. I may have teared up for the film's conclusion (though maybe that was the sudden cut to white blinding me and making my eyes water), but it wasn't satisfying, there was no catharsis, I felt cheated out of those tears. And I know some people will roll their eyes at this complaint but, for a film so apparently full of empathy, there were definitely some shots of Frasier that felt like they were gawking at his character as some kind of spectacle rather than treating his tragic situation humanely.

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris - I had seen the musical and although it wasn't perfect I found it incredibly moving by the end. The film totally undoes that with its cop-out happy ending, plus its politics are very confused - it's pro-worker but also pro-capitalism, consumerism, fast fashion? It seemed like they hadn't thought about the implications of what they were suggesting as a leftist policy. And finally the score was noticeably derivative of a lot of recent scores for films of its kind. Lesley Manville managed to prop this up to being just okay, without her I would not have enjoyed it.

The Gray Man- I know I watched it but can't remember anything about it.

The Bubble- A COVID centric film which felt very out of touch.

Fresh- I watched as so many people talked about how good and different it was. Horribly predictable and generic.

Glass Onion is another but I didn't actually finish it unlike the rest. Horrible characters and overrated.

The Lost City and Sonic 2 were fun movies, not amazing but a good time.

I didn't dislike it but Don't Worry Darling really annoyed me as a film. 

That's partly why I started the thread:  I was shocked not only that some of my "worst" were the best not only for the critics but the general public; also to see if I was the only one in the "no!" group.

I also feel I've seen far too many similar good old "British" films this year, ie you know exactly what to expect and the story is almost secondary, including:

The Duke
Mrs Harris Goes To Paris
Belfast
Phantom Of The Open

Love this thread (and also the 'Best' thread!)

My least favourite of 2022:
1. The Reef: Stalked
2. Morbius
3. Firestarter
4. Halloween Ends
5. Monstrous

Anyone else here that uses LetterBoxd? It's a fun app for logging and rating (and reviewing) films you've watched. You can connect with friends to see what they've been watching, and create/view lists of recommendations. These days I tend to check out the average rating of a film on there more than I do on rottentomatoes or IMDb.

My username there is ChuckieJay if anyone wants to make new friends on there.

(Basically) any film with Adam Sandler or Rob Schneider in it!

I couldn't find it within me to avoid Halloween Ends due to love of the genre, completism and morbid curiosity!

I went in with an open mind hoping it would - at the very least - surely be better than its truly abysmal prior installment Halloween Kills.



My biggest disappointment of the year was Men (no pun intended). From the trailer I expected great things, but I found the movie itself to be very poor. It isn't in my 5 worst of 2022, but it was a huge disappointment.

You might have. It made one person's "best" list in the other thread. I enjoyed it too, but I had no preconceptions as I don't watch trailers.

I think there are some genuinely terrible films made, but tbh most of them never get a major release and some never see the light of day.

It is all down to personal taste in the end. I mean NONE of the films on my list are really terrible as such, I just didn't like them.

I think being either too hyped for something or simply being in the wrong mood when you watch it can also have a major effect on liking it or not.

Some of the most hammered films of the last fews years have ended up being my favorite films of that years, while the stuff that got praised I thought was meh.

I still consider both Batman Vs Superman and Mother! to be complete masterpieces and both of them got slammed from one end of the earth to the other.

The toxic online film Stan community also don't help the situation as people will just slam something or overpraise something just to fit in and then it becomes gospel.

I have just looked up Speak No Evil and sounds really good! shame I don't want to subscribe to Shudder to see it. Will keep in mind. And Men too lol

Shudder is only 99p for a month atm, just sign up and then cancel immediately that's what I did lol

Men is on Prime too x