Some years don’t have many great movies, but there never seems to be any shortage of bad flicks.
A handful of this year’s terrible films may ultimately live on for a few decades simply because they were bombs of epic proportions.
For this year, the Watch With Us team has whittled down our picks to the five worst movies of 2025, ranked.
You can find all of those films below, but don’t feel obliged to watch any of them as long as you have a choice.
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5. ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ (2025)
There have been plenty of bad superhero movies before, even from Marvel Studios. But the Marvel branding used to mean that a film would at least offer a good time at the theater. Then Captain America: Brave New World came along and made me question the fate of Marvel’s quality control department. Whatever amount of footage was reshot to frankenstein this flick together wasn’t enough.
Anthony Mackie has been fun as Sam Wilson in other Marvel flicks, but he doesn’t seem to have enough to headline his own Captain America film. The new Falcon, Joaquin Torres (Danny Ramirez), is boring, and the movie even manages to make its super-genius villain, Samuel Sterns (Tim Blake Nelson), into a moron. Brave New World even squanders Harrison Ford‘s turn as President Thaddeus Ross, a role previously played by the late William Hurt.
Harrison Ford as Red Hulk in ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ Courtesy Marvel; Courtesy Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures /Courtesy Everett Collection
The only time this film shows signs of life was the reshoots with Sidewinder (Giancarlo Esposito) and a brief cameo by Sebastian Stan‘s Bucky Barnes that reestablishes what camaraderie between superheroes is supposed to look like. Beyond those scenes, this movie was lazy, uninspired and toothless.
Captain America: Brave New World is streaming on Disney+.
4. ‘Honey Don’t!’ (2025)
The Coen brothers are collectively two of the best directors in cinema with critically acclaimed and Oscar-winning flicks to their names. We don’t want to suggest that it all came from one brother, but Ethan Coen‘s solo efforts are not the equal of his films with Joel Coen. Honey Don’t! is a prime example of a movie that just doesn’t work on any level.
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Margaret Qualley snoozes her way through the film as its title character, Honey O’Donahue, a private investigator who is the occasional lover of police officer MG Falcone (Aubrey Plaza). Between Qualley, Plaza and Chris Evans in a supporting role as a cult leader, Reverend Drew Devlin, this movie had A-list stars. They just can’t make this movie interesting or even easy to sit through.
Honey Don’t! is streaming on Peacock.
3. ‘Hurry Up Tomorrow’ (2025)
Between Hurry Up Tomorrow and HBO’s The Idol, it sure seems like acting isn’t The Weeknd‘s forte. For this film, The Weeknd goes by his given name, Abel Tesfaye, and essentially plays himself as a music superstar in crisis. Oscar nominee Barry Keoghan costars as Abel’s enabling manager, while Jenna Ortega plays Abel’s lover/stalker.
Maybe a different version of this could have worked, but building everything up to The Weeknd singing “Hurry Up Tomorrow” was the wrong way to go. This film is incredibly self-indulgent and may even be beyond parody.
Hurry Up Tomorrow is available to rent or buy on Prime Video.
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2. ‘The Electric State’ (2025)
When a film like The Electric State balloons to a $320 million budget, that tends to be the focus of all stories about the movie, regardless of whether it’s good or not. In this case, it’s quite awful, and we’re left wondering what the Russo brothers spent so much money on. Anthony Russo and Joe Russo made their names in Hollywood by directing some of the best Marvel films, but you won’t find their signature crowd-pleasing moments in this film.
Stranger Things‘ Millie Bobby Brown leads the cast of this post-robot apocalypse as Michelle Greene, a young woman who is searching for her brother, Christopher (Woody Norman). Chris Pratt also stars as Michelle’s ally, John D. Keats, but neither of the leading actors brings much life to their roles as they encounter robots voiced by an A-list cast. The Russos’ instincts were way off here, and that makes me worried about how Avengers: Doomsday will play out next year.
The Electric State is streaming on Netflix.
1. ‘War of the Worlds’ (2025)
H.G. Wells‘ The War of the Worlds has had some inspired adaptations for radio, film and television. But this year’s take on War of the Worlds will be historic for all of the wrong reasons. It was someone’s bright idea to transform this epic sci-fi novel into a screenlife movie where Ice Cube‘s Will Radford stares at a screen and glowers for about 90 minutes.
This film looks and feels like it was made on a shoestring budget, as most of the “action” takes place on the blurry computer screens that Will watches from a remote location. War of the Worlds simply can’t evoke much of a response from its audience except for unintentional laughter. This film is the laughing stock of movies in 2025, especially when it starts using Amazon Prime as a solution for the invasion.
War of the Worlds is streaming on Prime Video.