12 movies on Netflix that critics think are terrible but audiences can't get enough of

Netflix description: "While acclimating to campus life, college freshman Sara begins to realize that her new roommate, Rebecca, is becoming obsessed with her."

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 4%

Audience score: 27%

What critics said: "There are some interestingly nasty moments and some chills, but it's predictable and derivative." — Guardian

Netflix description: "In a world ravaged by the Fire nation's aggression toward the peaceful Air, Water and Earth nations, a young boy holds the key to restoring peace."

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 5%

Audience score: 30%

What critics said: "One is bored and stupefied by what seems like an eternity of vacuous spectacle, cod-Buddhist tosh and clunking dialogue." — Time Out

Netflix description: "An inept Detroit cop must team up with his girlfriend's foul-mouthed young son when their first crack at bonding time uncovers a criminal conspiracy."

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 19%

Audience score: 32%

What critics said: "A profoundly irritating, cacophonous mess." — Tribune News Service

Netflix description: "Using special powers from a magical mask, a young WWE fan causes chaos when he enters a wrestling competition and fights an intimidating rival."

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 25%

Audience score: 34%

What critics said: "The Main Event is harmless, sure, but it's also completely disposable. By the final 3-count, it has already disappeared." — Detroit News

Description: "Looking to make ends meet, a young single mother paying for college and childcare gets introduced to the fast moneymaking world of stripping."

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 31%

Audience score: 85%

What critics said: "Rich with colorful dialogue and characters, it's sometimes ungainly but never boring, and there's a core of truth in its portrait of exotic dancers." — Chicago Sun-Times

Netflix description: "Different versions of the same day unfold as Jack juggles difficult guests, unbridled chaos and potential romance at his sister's wedding."

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 34%

Audience score: 38%

What critics said: "At least the Italian scenery and the stranded actors look good. Just don't mistake this charmless, mirthless and shameless ripoff of 'Four Wedding and a Funeral' and 'Groundhog Day' for a comedy with actual laughs." — Rolling Stone

Netflix description: "Spenser, an ex-cop and ex-con, teams up with aspiring fighter Hawk to uncover a sinister conspiracy tied to the deaths of two Boston police officers."

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 38%

Audience score: 56%

What critics said: "There are many things to like about Mark Wahlberg as an actor, but he's not very good when his characters have to put their thinking cap on." — Newsday

Netflix description: "Secret Service agent Mike Banning is caught in the crossfire when he's framed for a deadly attack on the president and forced to run for his life."

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 39%

Audience score: 93%

What critics said: "If this type of no-brow entertainment is your thing, you may find something to like in Angel Has Fallen but that doesn't mean you need what these guys are reselling." — RogerEbert.com

Netflix description: "When a flood of natural disasters threatens to destroy the world, a divorced dad desperately attempts to save his family in this doomsday thriller."

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 39%

Audience score: 47%

What critics said: "2012 is so long, and its special effects are at once so outrageous and so thunderously predictable, that by the time I lurched from the theatre I felt that three years had actually passed and that the apocalypse was due any second." — New Yorker

Netflix description: "After an air traffic controller's mistake results in a tragic accident, a man who lost his wife and daughter seeks answers from the man responsible."

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 41%

Audience score: 25%

What critics said: "The movie shows little interest in either dramatic context or the realities of human behavior." — AV Club

Netflix description: "A detective with a license to kill roams the Old West to wrangle Confederate war criminals and meets a pioneer woman who throws his journey off track."

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 43%

Audience score: 51%

What critics said: "'Badland' is ultimately too beholden to the past to be as energized as it should be." — Los Angeles Times

Netflix description: "When a deadly virus spreads throughout a small town, a team of Army doctors works to contain it before the military can execute an extreme alternative."

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 59%

Audience score: 56%

What critics said: "The irony is that Outbreak, for all its lurid finesse, ends up leaving us more dazed than terrified." — Entertainment Weekly