I don’t do a list like this very often because I know how difficult it is to make any kind of movie, good or otherwise. But maybe more than in an average year, I sat through a lot of terrible ones — this as I also recognize there were a lot of great movies in 2025. So please consider this as a public service: Here’s a list of stinkers, presented alphabetically, you may wish to avoid.
The hard work of Colin Farrell and Tilda Swinton can’t save this sweaty tale of gambling addiction in sparkly Macau.
There’s not much worse than a horror movie convinced its clever when it’s actually dumb as a bag of hammers.
One of these streaming blockbusters that never justifies its existence, where the stars — in this case Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy — guard a gate to hell and still have time to provide meta humour about their other work. Complete trash, and not the fun sort.
A movie that depends a lot on George Clooney’s charm, but his character is such a privileged dickhead it’s impossible to find much in the way of sympathy for him, and Adam Sandler is just miscast.
Jennifer Lopez fans may find things to enjoy in this mediocre musical, the rest of us not so much.
I’ve seen this reboot show up in Top 10 lists of the best of the year, reminding me that there’s no genre at the movies more subjective than comedy. Some say it’s silly, stupid, and hilarious, I agree with the first two assertions.
Charlize Theron’s Covid-era action fantasy had a sequel this year, and even Uma Thurman brandishing a katana doesn’t keep it from sucking.
This one provides a special frustration: the recognition that my tax dollars through Telefilm went into supporting Atom Egoyan’s pretentious soap set at the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
A Star Trek spin-off series got turned into a feature film on Paramount+. It turned out to be a very bad idea.
A ridiculous murder mystery strands Keira Knightly, Guy Pearce, and Hannah Waddingham on an enormous yacht while the rest of us are bored.
