What were the five worst movies of 2025?

After highlighting the best films of 2025, let’s look back at the worst.

5. Riff Raff

Rotten Tomatoes score: 55% (critics), 58% (audience)

Streaming on: Hulu

Available for rent on: YouTube, Apple TV, Amazon

Riff Raff is proof positive that it takes more than a good cast to make a good movie. Despite having Bill Murray, Pete Davidson, and Jennifer Coolidge, it’s not funny. Despite having Ed Harris and Gabrielle Union, it’s not an engaging drama. Everyone here seems to be going through the motions in what is supposed to be a dark comedy. One of the many problems is Davidson, who can be effective in the right roles (Big Time Adolescence, The King of Staten Island, Bodies Bodies Bodies). Here, he is horribly miscast as a hitman. Plus, Murray seems so disinterested that he looks like he’s about to fall asleep.

4. Hurry Up Tomorrow

Rotten Tomatoes score: 14% (critics), 61% (audience)

Available for rent on: YouTube, Apple TV, Amazon

Hurry Up Tomorrow should have been a music video. In that format, the audience is way more forgiving and understanding. A music video doesn’t have to make sense or have a cohesive narrative structure. It just needs to look cool and sound great. Hurry Up Tomorrow delivers the music and the visuals, but everything else is amiss in this chaotic mess. Abel Tesfaye, AKA The Weeknd, plays a self-destructive version of himself who meets an obsessive fan, Anima (Jenna Ortega). Things get weirder, and not in a good way, as this musical psychological drama drags on. Also, Barry Keoghan as Tesfaye’s manager is an odd choice.

3. The Electric State

Rotten Tomatoes score: 14% (critics), 67% (audience)

Streaming on: Netflix

From the streaming service that brought you Red Notice and The Gray Man, here is Netflix’s latest star-studded, big-budget stinker. The reported $320 million price tag makes The Electric State the most expensive Netflix movie ever. Directed by the Russo Brothers and based on a graphic novel, this sci-fi flick, starring Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt, is set in a dystopian world where people battle robots. It could have been an interesting tale about technology and the human condition, but the plot feels pieced together from other movies. That makes sense since this movie relied upon AI. The Electric State is as convincing as Pratt’s wig.

2. War of the Worlds

Rotten Tomatoes score: 4% (critics), 20% (audience)

Streaming on: Prime Video

Available for rent on: YouTube, Apple TV, Amazon

A low-budget remake of the sci-fi classic starring Ice Cube? Who thought this was a good idea? War of the Worlds is worse than bad. At least Money Plane brought us some comic relief in its ridiculousness during the pandemic. War of the Worlds is as enjoyable as watching an IT worker on a Zoom meeting. Ice Cube blamed the lockdown restrictions. He said the movie was made in 2020, and health protocols limited his scenes to 15 days. A credible explanation, but a poor excuse. His wasn’t the only movie affected by COVID. You can’t get a consensus on most things in America, but we all agreed that this was awful.

1. Flight Risk

Rotten Tomatoes score: 29% (critics), 62% (audience)

Streaming on: HBO Max and STARZ

Available for rent on: YouTube, Apple TV, Amazon

If you believe that War of the Worlds should top this list, we’re not going to argue. However, grading on a curve, this was much worse. Flight Risk was directed by Academy Award-winner Mel Gibson and stars Oscar nominee Mark Wahlberg alongside Emmy nominee Michelle Dockery. That should have been enough for at least a mediocre movie about a US Marshal escorting a government witness to Anchorage, Alaska. What we get is a dumb thriller executed poorly in a cramped space. Since most of the movie takes place inside a small plane, there’s not enough room for decent action scenes. A bald Wahlberg can over-act all he wants and mug for the camera, but nobody is buying the sheer stupidity of the plot.