All’s Fair (2025). You’d think the universe would be kind enough to restrict Kim Kardashian’s presence to one TV show. Nope. Maybe American Horror Story would be Ryan Murphy’s last tacky TV show. Wrong again. Together, they’ve delivered the rage-bait of the decade, this pseudo-feminist law drama. USA Today’s Kelly Lawler called it, “An embarrassingly terrible show with scripts worse than what ChatGPT was spitting out two years ago and acting worse than your local Christmas pageant…”
Wuthering Heights (2026). After two movies with no real plot, Emerald Fennell’s next victim was Emily Brontë’s classic. She turned the gothic novel about class and racism into smutty fanfic. Letterboxd user Allian complained: “Emily Brontë died of tuberculosis 177 years ago, yet this adaptation is still the worst thing that has ever happened to her.” RIP Margot Robbie’s Catherine, you would have loved Fifty Shades of Grey.
Joker: Folie à Deux (2024). A few years ago, the general understanding was that if you put Lady Gaga in a movie and let her sing, it would be a banger (hello, A Star is Born?). Add Joaquin Phoenix, and you expected fireworks. No one expected this movie to be a disaster. The tonal swing — from dark psychological thriller to musical drama — was so jarring that Letterboxd user John Pero wrote: “Every time they would start singing, I felt like Shrek whenever Donkey would randomly sing.”
Morbius (2022). After Venom, Marvel figured that another antagonist-led film would be a crowd-puller. This one had Jared Leto. On Letterboxd, user lautengcokj suggested taking a date to the film, and telling them the theatre was empty because it had been rented out just for them. User mfwspew commented, “When I die, everything will go black and I will be forced by Lucifer to watch the Morbius trailer on repeat for eternity…”
Gotti (2018). New York Post writer Johnny Oleksinski’s review of the biopic about NYC mob boss John Gotti (which was eight years in production, had four directors and 44 producers) didn’t just say it was bad. He called it “the worst movie of the year so far” (it was already June). He added that he’d “rather wake up next to a severed horse head than ever watch Gotti again.”
Fuller House (2016). Josh Bell from Entertainment Weekly tore into the Full House reboot. “Fuller House is like the childhood friend who never grew up, who still lives at home, still hangs out at places frequented by teenagers, still makes the same dated pop-culture references,” he wrote. “Visiting that person usually isn’t fun; it’s just sad.”
Cats (2019). The general population has suppressed the traumatising memories of the Cats screen adaptation, but at least one good thing came out of it: David Farrier’s review. He said the movie reminded him of the times his parents chose to breed cats, and when he met the furries community in Hamilton. “This is what death feels like. This is the worst ketamine trip. This is the CGI from Scorpion King… this is the death of all things…”
Breaking Bad (2008). Some didn’t get the hype, others found it downright nauseating. Melanie McFarland from Seattle Post-Intelligencer wrote of Vince Gilligan’s magnum opus, “Breaking Bad does have one thing going for it, though. Few other shows do more to help you to appreciate the entertainment value of marijuana.” Where’s the lie?
Mad Dog Time (1996). Everyone’s harsh words pale in front of the OG, Roger Ebert. He had a lot to say about the mobster flick, Mad Dog Time. Here’s the best bit: “The first movie I’ve seen that does not improve on the sight of a blank screen viewed for the same length of time… Mad Dog Time should be cut into free ukulele picks for the poor.”
Paprika (2006). The holy grail of animation — Satoshi Kon’s sci-fi thriller Paprika — has inspired many directors. Actress and comedian Ayo Edebiri pointed to similarities between the film and Christopher Nolan’s Inception in her famed Letterboxd review. “Do you think one of Leonardo DiCaprio’s young girlfriends has shown him this movie?” she asked, adding that if they had to steal so much, they could’ve at least made it fun.
From HT Brunch, April 4, 2026
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