10 Worst Movies of 2025, Ranked
There are stinky, smelly, poo-poo, doo-doo movies released every year, but there were some especially stinky, smelly, poopy, doo-doo-esque movies released in 2025. Things got so stanky, in fact, that you will not see the likes of Ella McCay or Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 here, nor will you see the inclusion of exceptionally disappointing – but not outright terrible – movies like Mickey 17, Caught Stealing, or Die My Love. Y’all are let off the hook, FOR NOW.
What follows is a rundown of the movies you should try particularly hard to avoid for the remainder of 2025, and for all the years that follow, too; those years that you remain on the Earth, or the years that the Earth remains, uh, remaining, and not blown up, like, Threads-style. Ooh, Threads. You should watch Threads. It’s depressing, but in the right kind of way, as opposed to the following movies, which are all depressing in a bad way.
10
‘Regretting You’
Regretting You is a movie based on a Colleen Hoover book.
That’s it. Oh, you want more? Okay, if you really need it. There’s a story here about a bunch of dysfunctional people or whatever, and then something bad happens, and then that bad thing happening leads to the discovery of other bad things, and oh no, there’s like, drama, but it’s of the melo variety, and there’s conflict, but it’s boring, and Regretting You goes on and on for two hours, though it feels more like four or five. It’s a nothing film, it does nothing to elevate the source material it’s working with, and it feels cynically made/assembled, like it doesn’t think you deserve better than what it is. You do deserve better, though. That’s said with no regret, you.
9
‘The Alto Knights’
If you’ve ever talked any kind of smack about The Irishman without having seen The Alto Knights, please watch the latter in your own time, and then offer your sincere apologies to the former. The Alto Knights is the movie that some detractors of The Irishman criticize it for being: a geriatric, creaky, gangster movie made by a bunch of people who should all be enjoying their twilight years, rather than trampling all over the legacy of their young/greater years.
Robert De Niro plays two roles in The Alto Knights, so it’s a movie that sees him giving not one of his worst-ever performances, but two.
The Irishman is not that, and the way it looks at aging, regret, and legacy (or lack thereof) is meaningful and mature. The Alto Knights just feels embarrassing, in comparison. Robert De Niro plays two roles here, so it’s a movie that sees him giving not one of his worst-ever performances, but two. Barry Levinson’s the director, and he’s also done so much better in the past. Further, The Alto Knights is written by Nicholas Pileggi, who’s best known for writing the non-fiction books that both Goodfellas and Casino were based on. This film is just a way to see a whole bunch of people fall from grace, and, in turn, it’s utterly miserable to actually try and sit through.
8
‘Smurfs’
There was a new Smurfs movie in 2025, which you’re forgiven for either forgetting about, or never learning about in the first place. This very website you’re on is usually pretty up to date with new releases, and most new releases do get their fair share of relevant articles published while said releases are still relatively new, but there aren’t very many for Smurfs (2025), because honestly, who cares?
This one is the Smurfs movie with Rihanna‘s voice in it. If it’s remembered for anything, it’ll be that, and pretty much nothing else. Having to contend with this one existing is just sad, and kind of despairing, and apologies for making you aware that Smurfs (2025) exists, or apologies for reminding you that Smurfs (2025) exists. Either way, apologies. Let’s all enter 2026 (and the years to follow) ideally forgetful once more. Where’s that device from Men in Black when you need it?
7
‘Love Hurts’
Ke Huy Quan has not been having the best of runs post his Oscar win for Everything Everywhere All at Once, unless you want to count a voice role in Zootopia 2, which was kind of a break. He was in Love Hurts and another particularly poorly received movie from 2025 that’ll be mentioned in a little while, though with Love Hurts, he was featured alongside Ariana DeBose, and she’s had a pretty bad run following her Oscar win for West Side Story (2021).
DeBose hasn’t even had a Zootopia 2, and has instead had the likes of Wish, Argylle, and Kraven the Hunter. Some of those are worth watching before Love Hurts, too, which is like the most tedious of action-focused rom-coms ever, even though that sounds like an inherently exciting blend of genres, and the movie itself clocks in at a slim 83 minutes. Well, it’s an objectively slim runtime. It sure as hell doesn’t feel slim while you’re actually watching the damn thing.
6
‘Star Trek: Section 31’
On the topic of Oscar winners from Everything Everywhere All at Once not really capitalizing entirely on that film’s success, nor the talents they showed in said film, here’s a Michelle Yeoh movie: Star Trek: Section 31. You can pair this with Smurfs (2025) for one hellish double feature, since Star Trek: Section 31 is also part of a very recognizable franchise, yet it came and went, at some point in 2025, with very few people genuinely noticing it.
Technically, Star Trek: Section 31 was a television film, which could explain why no one really talks about it, but still, there have been some amazing TV movies released in film/cinema history, so it being bad because it was made for TV? That’s not really an excuse. You’re better off watching pretty much any other Star Trek-related thing out there instead, or one of the many genuinely good movies Michelle Yeoh has starred in. This one’s just sad, really.
5
‘The Electric State’
There are a few books that’ll probably never get movie adaptations, and The Electric State, by Simon Stålenhag, should’ve remained one of them. Or, if it did indeed need a movie adaptation, it should’ve felt more like The Road than a modern-day superhero movie… maybe not as depressing as The Road, but the original book is pretty bleak and grounded, and effectively realistic with the dystopian world it depicts.
The Electric State (2025), on the other hand, is Netflix slop. It’s one of those very expensive movies where you can’t really see where any of the money went, which makes it easy to assume it was a waste of said money. Say what you want about James Cameron, but at least when he makes an Avatar movie, you can see the gargantuan budget on screen. The Electric State, on the other hand, looks cheap, rushed, bland, and borderline technically inept. It’s soul-crushing cinema, and everyone involved can do – and has done – so much better.
4
‘Bride Hard’
Ugh. Ugh? Ugh! Ugh, ugh, ugh… ugh, ugh, ugh, and ugh. There’s also ugh, ugh, ugh, and ugh to take into account. Ugh. Bride Hard. Ugh… ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh… then ugh. It’s an ugh movie. It makes you say “ugh.” It’s a movie that exists, and ugh. Ugh. What is Bride Hard but a whole lot of ugh. It’s 105 minutes of ugh.
This ugh stars Rebel Wilson, and she’s at her most ugh here. The plot is ugh. The mix of rom-com ugh with action movie ugh is super ugh. When it doesn’t finish, you will be thinking to yourself, “ugh?” And then when Bride Hard does mercifully end, you will also be saying, “Ugh!” but with a hint of triumph; an “ugh” like the kind Sisyphus would let slip if he actually got that boulder to the top of the hill at last, only to have it roll down the other side, out of sight and causing who knows what kind of destruction in its wake. Ugh, you know?
3
‘Snow White’
At Disney, nothing is sacred and/or off limits for a live-action remake or, in the case of The Lion King (2019), a photo-realistic computer animation remake that people keep calling live-action. This includes Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which came out almost 90 years ago, and continues to stand, to this day, as one of the most important animated/family/fantasy movies of all time.
The animation there, though clearly old, still holds up in its own way, whereas Snow White (2025) looked garish right from day 1. Hell, before day 1, because people saw the trailer and were understandably all like, “What the hell was that?” Some might’ve thought things would be smoothed out before release, Sonic the Hedgehog style, but no… Snow White (2025) ended up looking pretty awful as an actual film, too. Its lack of success at the box office seemed to make Disney hesitate for a bit, regarding whether to keep going with the live-action thing, but then Lilo & Stitch (also from 2025) did well financially, and so heigh-ho, heigh-ho, onward to hell we go.
2
‘Hurry Up Tomorrow’
Hopefully, Trey Edward Shults will bounce back, as a director, from Hurry Up Tomorrow, since his output before this one was largely pretty great. Thankfully for Shults, The Weeknd seems to be taking most of the heat for Hurry Up Tomorrow, since it’s such a Weeknd-centric movie, even if the artist himself didn’t direct it… but he was a co-writer, co-producer, and starred in the thing as a fictionalized version of himself.
It’s this and The Idol that have basically tanked The Weeknd’s chances of becoming a respected actor, but if he does bounce back (like Shults might), then yeah, this sentence will age poorly. The guy is a talented musical artist, but acting-wise, he’s been in one of the most infamous shows of the 2020s so far, and then was also at the center of a pretty disastrous movie. It’s not looking good. On the topic of looking good, Hurry Up Tomorrow occasionally does (thank you, Mr. Shults), but it’s otherwise rather awful and not worth your time.
1
‘War of the Worlds’
The War of the Worlds is a legendary sci-fi novel, and War of the Worlds is an imperfect but still pretty good Steven Spielberg movie from 2005 that adapts the original novel by H.G. Wells. And then 20 years after that came out, 2025 “blessed” us with another War of the Worlds movie, this one starring Ice Cube at his most disinterested, all presented in a way reminiscent of Searching (2018); like an updated found-footage kind of thing.
Only the presentation here does nothing to make the story, about an alien invasion, feel realistic or believable in any way, and it seems there just for budgetary purposes; like, it made War of the Worlds as cheap to shoot as possible. This is a dismal film, but it’s also pretty funny, maybe bad enough to be one of those genuinely fun bad movies. You still need quite a bit of patience to survive the whole thing (especially the product placement), but at the end of it all, you’ll be able to say you sat through all of 2025’s worst movie. Yay?
War of the Worlds
- Release Date
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July 30, 2025
- Runtime
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91 Minutes
- Director
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Rich Lee
- Writers
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Marc Hyman, Kenny Golde, H.G. Wells
