I looked up some movies I liked and didn't like that came out in theaters to compare the number of Thanks. I see a lot of movies. I consider Movie 43 the worst movie I saw in theaters, and it only had 1 Thanks. Fear is the worst movie I've seen this year in theaters, and it only had one Thanks.
Good movies tend not to be released in January, but the best movie with a 2023 release was Missing. It had one thanks. I looked up my favorite movie from 2022, Northman, and it had 7. It was not nominated for best picture so I looked at my favorite nominated movie, Everything, Everywhere, All at Once. I stopped counting at 30 Thanks. Knives Out was a popular movie and it had 17.
If you really want an indication of a bad movie, look at how many rotten tomatoes reviews a movie has before Thursday of its release. Unless it's a tent pole movie like Marvel, a movie not being reviewed means the studio thought it was bad and didn't want critics to get a chance to let everyone know how bad it was before its opening box office.