{"id":313625,"date":"2025-12-13T09:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T09:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/313625\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T09:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T09:17:10","slug":"metacritic-names-the-worst-films-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/313625\/","title":{"rendered":"Metacritic Names The Worst Films Of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ice-cube-explains-war-of-the-worlds-flop.jpg\" data-caption=\"Amazon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ice-cube-explains-war-of-the-worlds-flop.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ice-cube-explains-war-of-the-worlds-flop\"\/><\/a>Amazon<\/p>\n<p>Metacritic has announced its official list of the fifteen worst-reviewed films of all time, with the Ice Cube-led \u201cWar of the Worlds\u201d coming out as the worst release of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The title, effectively a feature-length commercial for Amazon shot during the pandemic, scored an unprecedented 6\/100 on the review aggregator \u2013 far above the Kevin James and Alan Ritchson-led comedy \u201cPlaydate\u201d which was second worst at 20.<\/p>\n<p>The Nic Cage-led \u201cGunslingers\u201d (20), the Stallone-led \u201cAlarum\u201d (23), and the Rebel Wilson comedy \u201cBride Hard\u201d (23) were next worst and make up the \u2018bottom five\u2019 of the year.<\/p>\n<p>In sixth through tenth were last weekend\u2019s box-office topper \u201cFive Nights at Freddy\u2019s 2\u201d (26), Joe Carnahan\u2019s Omar Sy-led action film \u201cShadow Force\u201d (27), Renny Harlin\u2019s trilogy mid-parter \u201cThe Strangers: Chapter 2\u201d (28), Trey Edward Shults\u2019 The Weeknd vanity project \u201cHurry Up Tomorrow\u201d (29), and the Russo Brothers\u2019 $320 million sci-fi epic \u201cThe Electric State\u201d (30).<\/p>\n<p>In #11-15 were \u201cJuliet &amp; Romeo\u201d (31), the Rihanna-led \u201cSmurfs\u201d (31), the Johnny Depp-led \u201cModi\u201d (32), Josh Boone\u2019s YA adaptation \u201cRegretting You\u201d (33), Simon West\u2019s \u201cOld Guy\u201d (33) starring Christoph Waltz &amp; Cooper Hoffman,.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, in #16-20 were the Pacino &amp; Dan Stevens exorcism thriller \u201cThe Ritual\u201d (33), the Ke Huy Quan-led action film \u201cLove Hurts\u201d (34), Audrey Diwan\u2019s reboot of \u201cEmmanuelle\u201d (35), Harmony Korine\u2019s \u201cBaby Invasion\u201d (36), and the direct-to-streaming film \u201cStar Trek: Section 31\u201d (37). <\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/pictures\/worst-movies-of-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Metacritic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon Metacritic has announced its official list of the fifteen worst-reviewed films of all time, with the Ice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-313625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-bigslider","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}