Giving a review zero stars sets a dreadful precedent. But here are the one-star shockers I’d downgrade | Peter Bradshaw

<p>A singularly horrendous TV show has crashed the star-rating review economy. But if zero stars is the new benchmark for critical rage, three films deserve the big 0</p><p><br>
Kim Kardashian’s world-historically horrendous TV show All’s Fair has detonated a firestorm of critical horror which, as well as everything else, may have undermined the currency of the star-rating review economy. My colleague Lucy Mangan gave Kardashian’s show an all-but-unprecedented zero stars and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/nov/05/the-guardian-has-only-ever-published-15-zero-star-reviews-here-they-all-are">zero stars are in fact very rare on this paper</a>.</p><p>Yet perhaps in the post-Kardashian world they will become more commonplace. I actually have the distinction of giving the first zero star review in the Guardian’s history — for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2002/oct/04/artsfeatures8">Cuba Gooding’s terrible comedy Boat Trip back in 2002</a>. But it’s weird. There have been worse films than that which didn’t get zeroed. Not many. But some.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/nov/06/one-to-zero-star-reviews">Continue reading...</a>