The Worst 10 Films of the Year 2025!
As always, this is not a definitive listing of the “ten worst films of the year 2025” – which is obviously a subjective thing to start with. Unlike the best films of 2025 – where I have achieved better coverage – I have not gone out of my way to watch absolute stinkers. For example, I’ve not seen the latest version of “War of the Worlds” for example, which seems to have got universally panned. But in watching movies during the year, there have been a number of stinkers that have crossed my path and this is that list.
Dishonourable mentions go to
which – in no particular order – were the next batch that scored 2*s or less.
But here is my list of my ten worst films from 2025., in both video form and as a countdown list. As always the links take you to my original review of the films.
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10 The Mastermind
I have heard some critics – including the illustrious Dr Mark Kermode – rave about this Kelly Reichardt film. But when I saw this at the London Film Festival, it was like watching paint dry. How can you make a heist movie so utterly slow and dull? Josh O’Connor is, of course, brilliant. But when you have a whole set of sequences that last for ever and are completely insignificant to the plot, I have to question what other critics saw in this one.
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9 Captain America: Brave New World
Harrison Ford as the US President, showing how it really should be done. That’s about the best that you could say for this lame Marvel offering. It’s just Marvel by the numbers, written by committee, with one crashy-bashy scene loosely linked to the next crashy-bashy scene. It even has a a McGuffin called ‘Adamantium’, just to add absurdity to the piece. If Marvel hadn’t pretty soon afterwards followed this trash with the excellent “Thunderbolts*” then I would have quietly buried Marvel films and moved on.
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8 Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger
I enjoyed the original “Bank of Dave”, but this lame sequel was just utterly tired and trying too hard. It had some sort of deranged tick-list of the thinks that worked so well in the last film and was constantly trying to shoehorn them all in. Dismal.
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7 Mountainhead
This one really felt like it should have had legs. Imagine if Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos spent a weekend at Richard Branson’s exotic Utah ski-lodge. But sadly, as a “comedy” it was just not funny enough to offset the fact that all the characters were so utterly sick and unpleasant. Hard no.
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6 I Know What You Did Last Summer
I know its de rigour for the characters in these types of films to put themselves into dangerous situations, but the storytelling of this lame and unnecessary reboot defines a whole new level of stupidity. And so we bounce along from tired teenage slash-age to tired teenage slash-age until we get to a “reveal” that is so utterly ridiculous that I nearly threw my remnants of popcorn at the screen. Another “monkey” in the credits suggest that we may be promised a follow up sequel. I beg you, please, please, please, please, NO!
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5 Jurassic World: Rebirth
Some of my “worst films” are in this list because my expectations of them were so much higher than the reality. Here we have Gareth Edwards, one of my favourite directors, injecting new life into a tired old franchise. Or not. The script (by David Koepp no less) was truly dreadful, the story made very little sense, Reuban (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo) often couldn’t decide if he had an injured leg or not and the overstuffed, genetically-engineered ‘Distortus Rex’ was absurd. Regular dinosaurs are scary enough!!
All this might have been a little bit forgiven if the special effects were any good. But sadly, no… even these were rubbish, showing in a very poor light even in comparison to the 33 year old original movie! It comes to something when you have to add spice by putting a cute teenager (Luna Blaise) in a wet T-shirt!
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4 A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
Another offering from the “Oh!” school of movies that you look forward to based on the trailer but which then turns out to be a dismal damp squib. “A Big Bold Beautiful Journey” looked great on paper: a whimsical fantasy story of a couple brought together by fate (or rather a scheming AI) and then learning about each other by going back to their past through a magical portal. But it is just all so dull and lifeless with characters that you really end up not caring two shits about.
When we get to an interesting bit – the school section which is all very “Peggy Sue Got Married” – we are there for the briefest of moments before we are off again. Worse than that: the third reel insults the audience by changing the physics of the time travel that we’ve come to expect. A big let down.
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3 TRON: Ares
Or “TRON: Arse” as it seems to have been universally named. I was never a fan of Disney’s “TRON”, even the original 80’s film. But this monstrosity was truly horrendous. The physics of how these computer creations came into the ‘real world’ was utterly stupid; the story was dull and unengaging and Jared Leto gave a “zero empathy” performance in every sense of the phrase. Worse of all, the utterly deafening “9 inch nails” soundtrack made by ears bleed before the half hour mark. A sequel to this (as teased by the “monkey“)? Once again, I plead with you Disney… please, please, please, please, NO!
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2 Honey Don’t
Never has a film’s title more aptly described my recommendation. This film had a lot of promise, with the wonderful Margaret Qualley as Honey O’Donahue, a lesbian private detective in Bakersfield, CA investigating goings on that might or might not involve a lecherous pastor at a local church, played by Chris Evans. This is the latest disappointing script from Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke which confuses loosely connected tawdry soft-porn scenes for a plot. After “Drive Away Dolls“, this is another Coen-brothers-brand-devaluation exercise.
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1 Flight Risk
An astonishingly incompetent film from Mel Gibson no less. It’s a new career low on the acting front for Mark Wahlberg, modelling the most ludicrous hairstyle in recent movie history. As Mark Kermode commented “…he literally looks like Bobo the clown. It could not look worse if they had slapped a big condom on his head and then painted it brown.”
Michelle Dockery, desperately trying to shake off her Downton typecasting, manages to look shocked and have her eyes rolling constantly, just like Lady Mary would do… but in a plane. The “tense” landing finale is one of the most ludicrous action scenes I’ve seen in a long time.
I mean, it’s hit that worst possible sour-spot: it’s almost so bad its good…. but not quite.
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So that’s my stinkers for 2025. If you’ve seen worse that I haven’t included, feel free to pitch in with a comment.
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