# List of films with a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes

On the film review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, a 0% rating marks a film that every surveyed critic considered poor: not one of the professional reviews counted for its Tomatometer was positive.<sup>[1](https://www.listchallenges.com/list-of-films-with-a-0-rating-on-rotten)</sup> The Tomatometer score represents the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive for a given film, and any film below 60% positive is labeled Rotten.<sup>[2](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/about)</sup> A 0% is the extreme end of that scale, and it is rarer than a perfect 100% because it requires unanimous negative judgment across every collected review.<sup>[1](https://www.listchallenges.com/list-of-films-with-a-0-rating-on-rotten)</sup>

| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Definition | Every surveyed critic's review was negative, so the Tomatometer shows 0%<sup>[1](https://www.listchallenges.com/list-of-films-with-a-0-rating-on-rotten)</sup> |
| Scale of the list | As of June 2026, only 43 films with a critics' consensus hold a 0% rating<sup>[1](https://www.listchallenges.com/list-of-films-with-a-0-rating-on-rotten)</sup> |
| Worst-reviewed by count | *Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever* (2002) sits at 0% with 118 reviews, the highest review count of any 0% film<sup>[3](https://www.gamesradar.com/best-zero-percent-rotten-tomatoes-movies/)</sup> |
| Score instability | *The Emoji Movie* (2017) debuted at 0% with at least 28 reviews and later rose to 3% when Rotten Tomatoes counted a Common Sense Media review as positive<sup>[4](https://findatwiki.com/List_of_films_with_a_0%25_rating_on_Rotten_Tomatoes)</sup> |
| Financial benchmark | The Ringer estimated that a film with a 0% rating would be expected to lose about $25 million relative to its budget<sup>[4](https://findatwiki.com/List_of_films_with_a_0%25_rating_on_Rotten_Tomatoes)</sup> |
| Recent example | The horror film *Psycho Killer* (2026) debuted to universally negative reviews and a 0% rating<sup>[5](https://guides.justwatch.com/us/movies-that-debuted-with-zero-percent-rotten-tomatoes)</sup> |

## How the score works

Rotten Tomatoes classifies each professional review as Fresh (positive) or Rotten (negative) and computes the Tomatometer as the percentage of reviews that are Fresh.<sup>[2](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/about)</sup> The score is binary at the review level rather than an average of star ratings, so a film collecting uniformly lukewarm recommendations can score high while a film collecting one dissenting review from an otherwise hostile press cannot reach 0%.<sup>[2](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/about)</sup> Reviews are gathered two ways: by Rotten Tomatoes' curation team, which monitors approved sources daily, and by Tomatometer-approved critics and publications who submit their own reviews and choose their own Fresh or Rotten designation.<sup>[6](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/faq)</sup>

Two consequences follow for 0% films. First, scores are fluid: as new reviews arrive, a 0% can rise, which is what happened to *The Emoji Movie* when a late review was judged positive.<sup>[4](https://findatwiki.com/List_of_films_with_a_0%25_rating_on_Rotten_Tomatoes)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[6](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/faq)</sup> Second, review counts vary widely. Older films released before the site existed may have few collected reviews, so tallies of 0% films usually impose a minimum review threshold to distinguish genuinely broad condemnation from sparse sampling.<sup>[3](https://www.gamesradar.com/best-zero-percent-rotten-tomatoes-movies/)</sup>

## Which films qualify

Counting conventions differ, so published figures vary. Rotten Tomatoes' own editorial guide to the 100 worst movies admits only films scoring 4% or less that carry at least 20 reviews, a threshold chosen so that the listed films have inflicted, in the guide's words, a minimum threshold of agony.<sup>[7](https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/worst-movies-of-all-time)</sup> Under the stricter convention of counting only films that also have a critics' consensus, 43 films held a 0% rating as of June 2026.<sup>[1](https://www.listchallenges.com/list-of-films-with-a-0-rating-on-rotten)</sup> A GamesRadar survey in August 2025 counted 41 films at 0% with more than 20 reviews, with Amazon's *[War of the Worlds](https://www.edgepedia.org/war-of-the-worlds-2025-film)* then sitting at 0% on just 17 reviews, below its own threshold.<sup>[3](https://www.gamesradar.com/best-zero-percent-rotten-tomatoes-movies/)</sup>

Several 0% films are documented in the sources with their review counts:

- *Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever* (2002), 0% with 118 reviews, the highest count of any 0% film and by that measure the worst-reviewed film on the site<sup>[3](https://www.gamesradar.com/best-zero-percent-rotten-tomatoes-movies/)</sup>
- *Tom and Jerry: Forbidden Compass* (2025), 0%, ranked first on Rotten Tomatoes' 100 worst movies guide<sup>[7](https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/worst-movies-of-all-time)</sup>
- *Highlander II: The Quickening* (1991), directed by [Russell Mulcahy](https://www.edgepedia.org/russell-mulcahy), a pre-site release that nonetheless accumulated enough negative reviews to sit at 0%<sup>[3](https://www.gamesradar.com/best-zero-percent-rotten-tomatoes-movies/)</sup>

## What the score means for a film

A 0% rating functions as a cultural marker as much as a statistic. Films that debut at 0% tend to keep the association even if later reviews lift the number, since the initial tally becomes the film's public identity; writers note that a movie may claw back a percentage point or two once it reaches streaming services, but there is no escaping the brand once it has been marked.<sup>[5](https://guides.justwatch.com/us/movies-that-debuted-with-zero-percent-rotten-tomatoes)</sup>

The financial stakes are measurable. The Ringer, analyzing Rotten Tomatoes scores against change in profit margin, estimated that a 0% rating would be expected to lose a film about $25 million relative to its budget.<sup>[4](https://findatwiki.com/List_of_films_with_a_0%25_rating_on_Rotten_Tomatoes)</sup>

A few films attract revisionist affection. *Highlander II: The Quickening* is regularly cited as incomprehensible yet fun, part of a small class of 0% films defended as so bad they are good.<sup>[3](https://www.gamesradar.com/best-zero-percent-rotten-tomatoes-movies/)</sup>

## By the numbers

The composition of the 0% club shows how the score interacts with review volume. Most 0% films carry 20 to about 43 reviews; *Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever*, at 118 reviews, is an outlier whose unanimity across more than a hundred professional reviews has no parallel in the group.<sup>[3](https://www.gamesradar.com/best-zero-percent-rotten-tomatoes-movies/)</sup> Review counts also explain part of the list's turnover: films that debuted before the site's coverage matured have fewer available reviews to collect, so historically even a single positive review can move an old film off 0%, while a widely covered modern release such as *The Last Days of American Crime* sits at 0% across 43 reviews.<sup>[3](https://www.gamesradar.com/best-zero-percent-rotten-tomatoes-movies/)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[2](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/about)</sup> The count of qualifying films has itself shifted in recent years, from 41 in August 2025 to 43 by June 2026, as new releases such as *Psycho Killer* entered with unanimous negative reviews.<sup>[1](https://www.listchallenges.com/list-of-films-with-a-0-rating-on-rotten)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[3](https://www.gamesradar.com/best-zero-percent-rotten-tomatoes-movies/)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[5](https://guides.justwatch.com/us/movies-that-debuted-with-zero-percent-rotten-tomatoes)</sup>

## References

1. [List of Films With a 0% Rating on Rotten Tomatoes (2026), ListChallenges](https://www.listchallenges.com/list-of-films-with-a-0-rating-on-rotten)
2. [About Rotten Tomatoes: What is the Tomatometer?](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/about)
3. [After Amazon's War of the Worlds, I watched all the 0% rated movies on Rotten Tomatoes, GamesRadar (2025)](https://www.gamesradar.com/best-zero-percent-rotten-tomatoes-movies/)
4. [List of films with a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, Find at WIKI](https://findatwiki.com/List_of_films_with_a_0%25_rating_on_Rotten_Tomatoes)
5. [10 Movies That Debuted With A 0% On Rotten Tomatoes, JustWatch Guides (2026)](https://guides.justwatch.com/us/movies-that-debuted-with-zero-percent-rotten-tomatoes)
6. [FAQ, Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/faq)
7. [Bad Movies: The 100 Worst Movies of All Time, Rotten Tomatoes editorial](https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/worst-movies-of-all-time)

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