- 50 best films of 2025: No 50 to 31
- 50 best films of 2025: No 30 to 21
- 50 best films of 2025: No 20 to 11
- 50 best films of 2025: 10 to 1
10. Captain America: Brave New World
“Cap”, you say? Crap, more like. If that joke seems too lowbrow then we would not recommend this contender for the worst film yet in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Full review
9. Snow White
Rachel Zegler, crystal-voiced in this ghastly live-action remake, is, despite receiving heaps of online abuse, entirely blameless for the financial and aesthetic catastrophe. Ugly. Leaden. Offensive. Full review
8. Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
The Irish Times left the press screening laughing like Leslie Nielsen and Priscilla Presley exiting Platoon in The Naked Gun. It isn’t a comedy either. Full review
7. Night Always Comes
Utterly absurd Netflix melodrama with Vanessa Kirby as a compromised woman desperately trying to raise $25,000 over one implausible evening. Nothing on screen is more harrowing than the smell of desperation radiating from a committed cast. Full review
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6. The Last Journey
Is it fair to criticise two professional Swedish pranksters for involving an elderly, often confused man – one of the two’s father – in this achingly sentimental real-life journey across Europe? No. Okay, we won’t then.
5. After the Hunt
Words cannot express how misconceived is Luca Guadagnino’s attempt to troll audiences with this woefully ham-fisted campus drama about the aftermath of a supposed sexual assault. Full review
4. Honey, Don’t!
Please God, stop, Ethan Coen. That half of the Coen brothers manages to build (if that is the word) on the puerile antics of Drive-Away Dolls to deliver something even more cack-handed and childish. Full review
3. The Alto Knights
Warner Bros had a good year. Just as well. All that success may cause analysts to overlook Barry Levinson’s stunningly misconceived gangster flick, which casts Robert De Niro as heads of both the Luciano and the Genovese crime families. Full review
2. M3gan 2.0
It’s hard to imagine a more efficient demolition of a budding franchise. The sequel to the first killer-doll film introduces a rival so transcendentally boring that she’s barely visible on screen. Ju2t 3hastly. Full review
1. The Electric State
Anthony and Joe Russo, directors of endless mega-grossing MCU films, are given $320 million (allegedly) by Netflix and they choose to deliver a hugely unattractive, dystopian drama with all the imaginative depth of a public-information film about the correct use of shopping trolleys. Would be laughable if it weren’t so morally offensive. Full review
