It’s Türkiye time! The 12 worst films of 2025 | film

Saturday night

What did we say: “Even the best fans of the legendary American television comedy show Saturday Night Live will face an unbearable immersion in this exhausting film from director and co-writer Jason Reitman.” Peter Bradshaw
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snow white

What did we say: “This is a new, no-nonsense live-action musical version of the Snow White legend, a kind of no-nonsense approach to the story and a financial machine that enables the merchandise. While other films playfully re-imagine the backstories of famous villains, this one plays them straight, but with carefully orchestrated revisions. It’s very clear that these are all hurtful, second-guessing reactions, but knowing that on some fundamental level the brand identity must be kept pure.” baby
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Part of a day

What did we say: “The opening ceremony of Cannes can be a gamble: a highly exposed venue at the festival that few films need or want, and whose occupants often turn out to be plump turkeys on the big screen. It’s a shame that such a tepid, presumptuous musical – ostensibly on the subject of the city’s original values – feels as flat as a hedgehog run over by an 18-wheeler the moment the heroine opens her mouth to Sing One of the Terrible Songs.” Many in the movie. baby
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alpha

What did we say: “The crazy, baffling, humorless storytelling can’t overcome the fact that everything here is unconvincing and downright boring. Every line, every scene, has the emotional dial turned up to 11 and yet feels redundant.” baby
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High rollers

What did we say: “Here’s a cheap cut of Ocean’s Eleven starring John Travolta that makes Soderbergh’s film look like something by Andrei Tarkovsky or Ingmar Bergman… It’s a heart-slowing, staggeringly stupid and charming affair, ineptly made and downright boring except when its flaws become so egregious that you can’t help but laugh.” Leslie Felperin
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Jungle problem

What did we say: “With a deeply annoying main character named Mohsin, here’s a jungle adventure that feels cobbled together like a gross-out Frankenstein’s monster from the corpses of other bad cartoons — cobbled together from much better films.” Catherine Bray
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Jay Kelly

What did we say: “In this bleak, sentimental and indulgent film, George Clooney looks like a man who finds strychnine in his Nespresso bottle and can’t remember which cupboard in his luxury hotel suite contains the antidote.” baby
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Boat yard

What did we say: “There’s something depressing about The Boatyard’s futility, its lack of wit, empathy, or basic filmmaking skills. The acting achieves a degree of finely tuned awfulness that’s impossible to stomach.” LF
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Alarum mission

What did we say: “No one seems quite sure what the ‘private embassies’ of Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson, and Jon Voight entailed, or whether any of these troika of right-wing fellow travelers performed any official duties. But on that score, Stallone has really let the side down — by making a movie so bad that it shames American cinema itself.” LF
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Mr. Blake at your service!

What did we say: “What makes this film an ordeal to watch is Malkovich’s astonishing readings of lines in French, in his very slow and unmistakable American accent… It sounds as if Dr. Hannibal Lecter had smoked a hundredweight of weed, giving the sarcastic impression of an ill-fitting French waiter intending to dine.” baby
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Tron: Ares

What did we say: “The matrix of futility is reloaded in this dull, mind-boggling sci-fi that’s more screensaver than actual movie… There’s no drama, danger or human interest anywhere. This franchise now feels as urgently contemporary as an in-car CD player.” baby
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Christmas karma

What did we say: “While I’m always keen to indulge in any and all new riffs on Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, and as keen to listen to Bend It as Beckham director Gurinder Chadha, this Christmas satire is a leaden film, as unconvincingly acted and welcome as a dead mouse in eggnog.” baby
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