It is a film critic’s pleasure and privilege to make a list of the ten best movies every year. (I enjoy it so much, I make a list of 20 favorites .) Some disagree with me, but I think it’s also the film critic’s responsibility to make a list of the worst movies as well. (I do not enjoy this one quite as much, so this list will just be 12 titles, thank you very much.)

Writing 2024’s worst-of list , I wrote “hopefully 2025 will bring better-looking movies, if not more entertaining ones. That doesn’t seem like too much to ask.” What the batch of films below presupposes is ... maybe it was?

As a great of a year for cinema as 2025 was, there were some undeniable low points as well. Bad streaming titles, bad big-screen blockbusters, bad musicals, bad sequels, bad live-action remakes, bad

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