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The 35 worst movies of all time, according to critics

From ill-advised sequels like "Scary Movie 5" to a bad documentary about Hillary Clinton, movie critics have deemed these films the worst of the worst.

Scary Movie 5.

While the moviegoing public will often flock in large numbers to enjoy bad movies (see: "Suicide Squad"), professional critics are, by contrast, quick to pile condemnation on films that strike them as grossly inferior.

To find out which movies critics have deemed the worst of the worst, we turned to review aggregator Metacritic to compile this list of the most critically panned films in history.

From ill-advised sequels like "Scary Movie 5" to a dubious documentary about Hillary Clinton, these films drew the ire of critics and provoked the repulsion of many.

Here are the 35 worst movies of all time, according to critics:

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Note: Only movies with seven or more online reviews appear in the ranking, so it skews toward more recent films.

35. "3 Strikes" (2000)

Critic score: 11/100

User score: 4.0/10

Summary:"[Brian Hooks]

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What critics said: "Feels like a very long late-night comedy sketch that occasionally veers beyond tastelessness toward something worse." — The New York Times

34. "Mortal Kombat: Annihilation" (1997)

User score: 8.0/10

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What critics said: "It's cynical and it's depressing, and I would lock a child in a room before I'd show him 'Mortal Kombat: Annihilation.'" —

33. "Date Movie" (2006)

User score: 2.9/10

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What critics said: "'Comedy is hard,' said Steve Martin. For the writers of 'Date Movie,' it's apparently impossible." —

32. "Pinocchio" (2002)

User score: 2.9/10

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What critics said: "It's an oddity that will be avoided by millions of people, this new Pinocchio. Osama bin Laden could attend a showing in Times Square and be confident of remaining hidden." —

31. "Nine Lives" (2016)

User score: 2.8/10

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What critics said: "At 87 torturous, laugh-free minutes, the film could change the most avid cat fancier into a kitty hater." —

30. "Scary Movie 5" (2013)

User score: 2.7/10

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What critics said: "'Scary Movie V' murdered my capacity to feel joy." —

29. "Some Kind of Beautiful" (2015)

User score: 5.0/10

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What critics said: "Some kind of hideous, a perfect storm of romantic-comedy awfulness that seems to set the ailing genre back decades with the sheer force of its ineptitude." —

28. "Whipped" (2000)

User score: 6.3/10

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What critics said: "U" —

27. "Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star" (2011)

User score: 2/10

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What critics said: "This may be the worst movie Pauly Shore has ever been in. Think about that." —

26. "Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000" (2000)

User score: 2/10

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What critics said: "A picture that will be hailed without controversy as the worst of its kind ever made." —

25. "The Tortured" (2012)

User score: 4.2/10

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What critics said: "Lean, nasty, and patently absurd, 'The Tortured' plays like one long scream of agony." —

24. "Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2" (2004)

User score: 1.8/10

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What critics said: "So bad that I predict there will be drinking games set around viewing it someday." —

23. "Alone in the Dark" (2005)

User score: 1.6/10

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What critics said: "So mind-blowingly horrible that it teeters on the edge of cinematic immortality." —

22. "Atlas Shrugged III: Who Is John Galt?" (2014)

User score: 3.0/10

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What critics said: "The movie's so slipshod and half-assed that I almost feel for Rand, whose ideas have proved enduring enough that they at least deserve a fair representation, if only for the sake of refutation." —

21. "Meet The Spartans" (2008)

User score:/10

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What critics said: "Gamely alternates between unfunny gay jokes and violent pratfalls for a good 80 minutes, finding time for not one, but two musical dance numbers set to 'I Will Survive.'" —

20. "Dirty Love" (2005)

User score:/10

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What critics said: "Dirty Love wasn't written and directed, it was committed. Here is a film so pitiful, it doesn't rise to the level of badness. It is hopelessly incompetent." —

19. "State Property" (2002)

User score:/10

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What critics said: "Result is a fairly good-looking video shot down by a hackneyed script, atrocious acting and a total lack of redeeming social value." —

18. "The Mangler" (1995)

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What critics said: "It is not a compliment to suggest that a demonically possessed piece of machinery embarked on a bloodthirsty rampage has more personality than most of the flesh-and-blood characters in The Mangler, a horror movie based on a Stephen King story." —

17. "Among Ravens" (2014)

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What critics said: "Featuring unlikeable characters, preposterously contrived plotting, ham-fisted dialogue and strained attempts at poeticism, Among Ravens is a misfire on every level." —

16. "Septic Man" (2014)

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What critics said: "Beyond its mere unfunniness and stupidity, Septic Man is criminally unimaginative." — The Dissolve

15. "Transylmania" (2009)

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What critics said: "The current vogue for all things vampiric is ripe for a satirical drubbing, but this repulsive comedy is part of the problem, not the solution." —

14. "Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?" (2016)

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What critics said: "The movie tries to wrap an important social message in comedy, but it’s unpalatable all the way through." —

13. "Miss March" (2009)

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What critics said: "Writer-director-stars Zach Cregger and Trevor Moore, of the Whitest Kids U'Know, here prove the crassest, most maladroit moviemakers you know." —

12. "Screwed" (2000)

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What critics said: "A confusedly misconceived hybrid of interracial buddy comedy and imitation Marx Brothers farce." — The New York Times

11. "The Hottie & the Nottie" (2008)

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What critics said: "Great actors make the craft look easy. In the Paris Hilton comedy 'The Hottie and the Nottie,' acting looks very, very difficult." —

10. "Baby Geniuses" (1999)

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What critics said: "Bad films are easy to make, but a film as unpleasant as Baby Geniuses' achieves a kind of grandeur." —

9. "National Lampoon's Gold Diggers" (2004)

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What critics said: "So stupefyingly hideous that after watching it, you'll need to bathe in 10 gallons of disinfectant, get a full-body scrub and shampoo with vinegar to remove the scummy residue that remains." —

8. "The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence)" (2015)

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What critics said: "It’s only fitting that a series that began with the concept of linking the digestive tracts of three people would end by feasting on its own sh-t." —

7. "Vulgar" (2002)

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What critics said: "Sure to appear in everyone's worst-of lists at year's end, to say nothing of a few bad dreams, Bryan Johnson's Vulgar is an unclassifiably awful study in self- and audience-abuse." —

6. "Strippers" (2000)

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What critics said: "Unbelievably awful celluloid-waster." —

5. "Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party" (2016)

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What critics said: "Little more than an extended version of the kind of political screeds that can be found online with only a minimum of effort, this is just a terrible movie." —

4. "The Singing Forest" (2003)

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What critics said: "'The Singing Forest' was written and directed by Jorge Ameer, whose film 'Strippers' opened three years ago and remained the single worst movie I had ever reviewed -- until now." — The New York Times

3. "United Passions" (2015)

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What critics said: "As propaganda, United Passions is as subtle as an anvil to the temple. As drama, it’s not merely ham-fisted, but pork-shouldered, bacon-wristed, and sausage-elbowed." —

2. "Bio-Dome" (1996)

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What critics said: "The sheer ineptitude of the movie is supposed to be funny, but there's no lunacy behind it: Shore and his writers are like comedians on Prozac, smiling through the fart jokes without a hint of desperation." —

1. "Chaos" (2005)

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What critics said: "Writer-director David DeFalco's ugly, pointless and dishonest remake of Craven's remake." —

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