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ROTTEN TOMATOES: What is the worst-reviewed movie of all time?

Astoundingly, the linked #1 film and two other movies got worse reviews than Benigni's Pinocchio. Although only #4 of all time, it is the worst theatrical movie I've ever reviewed. Pinocchio is so bad that I needed help from F. Scott Fitzgerald to find the words to review it: "The ultimate silliness. That is his dream, and it must have seemed so close in Pinocchio that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond Hollywood and Rome, where he could prance and pratfall through the wide open fields of slapstick which roll on under the infinite night, dotted with banana peels. Like Gatsby, he believes in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. For Benigni it is the future of goofiness. It eluded him then, but that's no matter - tomorrow Benigni will walk sillier, fall harder ... and one fine morning ...."

For the record, the worst straight-to-vid I've ever reviewed is Glam, an incoherent and annoying Tony Danza film directed by Ali McGraw's son.