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- To compile this list, we looked at the top 10 highest-grossing films for each year since 2000 at the worldwide box office and compared the Rotten Tomatoes critic scores of each film.
- The movie with the lowest critic score within each year's top 10 is the film we've deemed the worst blockbuster movie of that year.
Over the last 20 years, a number of critically panned films have earned more than $1 billion at the worldwide box office.
We compiled this list by looking at the top 10 highest-grossing films at the worldwide box office for each year since 2000, according to Box Office Mojo data. We then reviewed the critic scores for each of those 10 films on the reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes to determine which film was the most critically panned blockbuster movie of that year.
We included a runner-up film for each year and used lesser audience scores to break any ties in critic.
From the 2000 thriller "What Lies Beneath" to 2018's "Venom," with multiple Will Smith-led movies in between, here are the worst blockbuster films of every year since 2000, according to critics.