10 Worst Movies of the Last 6 Years, Ranked

It doesn't help that exactly 6 years ago, in May 2020, the world was in the middle of a complete lockdown, leaving a massive influence and legacy on all of world culture as a result. This has in turn had a massive impact on the cinematic industry, whether it be short-term changes like stilted film productions or long-term changes like the larger shift to PVOD streaming rental services. While some of these changes were certainly good, they can also be attributed to creating the social climate and culture that resulted in these absolute failures.

10 'Madame Web' (2024)

While superhero movies and their expansive universes used to be a dominating force of pop culture in the 2010s, the past 6 years have seen a slow erasure in the genre to where they are far from the all-encompassing peak of blockbuster filmmaking. No singular film quite exemplifies this fall from grace like Madame Web, a sloppy attempted anti-hero origin story that was a part of Sony's ill-fated extended universe of Spider-Man villains.

Madame Web is one of the clearest examples of a film completely butchered during post-production, with its overwhelming usage of ADR (automated dialogue replacement) and jarring editing decisions transforming an already bad story into a nightmare of stilted acting and even worse action. Even despite its recent release, the film has cemented a strong legacy as one of the all-time worst comic book movies and a film that nearly single-handedly destroyed the entire extended universe that Sony was creating and placing all their hopes into.

9 'Music' (2021)

Film as a medium has an incredibly ability to shed light on and amplify the voices of those dealing with deeper complications and different experiences. However, if the film's execution isn't up to snuff, the end result can end up having the adverse effect and in fact feel like its perpetuating the same gross stereotypes that it was attempting to do away with in the first place. Music is one such catastrophic misfire, with pop star Sia's directorial debut completely failing in its attempts to shed light on the experiences and difficulties of living with Autism.

What was supposed to be a lighthearted musical journey of how people living with Autism are overlooked for their inner brilliance, Music instead ends up using the very real and important topic of Autism as nothing more than a prob for music videos. Sporting an array of performances that range from generic to actively problematic in its execution, Music was immediately reviled by audiences and critics alike and has been completely forgotten about in the years since its release.

8 'Protector' (2026)

Protector may have only released in theaters just a few months ago, but its laughably bad attempts at creating a Taken-style action thriller makes it one of the absolute worst action thrillers in years. The film sees Milla Jovovich as a former war hero who is sprung back into action when her daughter is kidnapped by human traffickers. It doesn't take long before she ends up knee-deep in the criminal underworld laying waste to anyone and everyone who stands between this mother and her daughter.

Especially in an era of filmmaking where every other action thriller is creating wild, electrifying experiences defined by heightened action and exceptional choreography, the basic, by-the-numbers approach to action in Protector proves to only be that much more boring and lazy. However, part of the appeal of this film comes from its story and message of the dangers of human trafficking, but even then, the story feels laughably absurd and uninformed in its execution.

7 'Borderlands' (2024)

Video game adaptations are at some of the highest highs that they've ever been in as of late, between the massive box-office successes like The Super Mario Bros. Movie and critical darlings like The Last of Us. However, this doesn't mean that there aren't also terrible video game adaptations being released, with Borderlands being one of the absolute worst modern video game movies. The quirky style of humor that made the games standout hits in the 2010s makes the film adaptation unbearably annoying in the 2020s.

Even outside the painful attempts at humor that the film is overwhelmed with, every other aspect of the film feels incredibly cheap and low-effort in its execution. All the performances feel phoned in, the VFX and action are incredibly forgettable, and the film only ever scratches the surface of the game's story and world. It miraculously manages to completely alienate longtime fans of the franchise while doing nothing to appeal to audiences unfamiliar with the video games.

6 '365 Days' (2020)

Erotic thrillers have been a distinct style of filmmaking for generations now, with the very best erotic thrillers finding a distinct balance between their saucy content and real, emotional storytelling and characters to make these sequences hit that much harder. 365 Days is the perfect example of a film that completely abandons any attempts at balancing, utilizing uninteresting blank slate characters and getting as close as a feature length film can get to being outright smut.

While focusing this much on sultry material in itself isn't inherently a bad thing, the sacrifices made to the story to make these sequences happen manage to make the entire film feel uncomfortable and predatory in nature. The entire romance of the film is revolved around a gross kidnapping and forced Stockholm Syndrome situation, where a woman is imprisoned for a year and slowly falls in love with her high-class mafia boss captor. Maybe if the film wasn't so focused on its garish sex scenes, it could have actually done something with its story.

5 'Megamind vs. The Doom Syndicate' (2024)

While far from the household name that other 2010s animated movies have become, Megamind has over time cemented a niche for itself as one of the biggest hidden gems and cult classics made by Dreamworks Animation, with appreciation only growing for it more as time has gone on. With this newfound appreciation, a reboot of the series seemed inevitable, yet the complete bastardization of the characters and their themes done in Megamind vs. The Doom Syndicate had many fans wishing that the series simply stayed forgotten.

So many of the flaws of this film stem from its complete lack of funding, as the film was not treated like a true cinematic follow-up, but instead given the same resources as the made-for-streaming television series made for Peacock. However, even the lower quality animation would have been excusable if the story and characters were well written, yet this film goes out of its way to undo aspects of the first film and simply repeats lessons to be learned and detracting from the message of the original in the process.

4 'Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey' (2023)

Low-budget horror movies that transform beloved public domain characters into ruthless slasher killers have been a dreadful yet completely inescapable trend that has been plaguing low-budget independent horror for years now. However, among the countless dreadful examples of this trend, the absolute worst of the bunch is, ironically, the one that catapulted this trend, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey. The film sees colorful children's characters Pooh and Piglet turned into ruthless killers who embark on a killing spree after having been abandoned by Christopher Robin for years.

There's certainly a world where this type of film could have had success, as the concept of seeing beloved characters as killers has some inherent interest and comedic potential. However, Blood and Honey has very little care or interest in these beloved characters outside their icon status, as they could easily be mistaken for any other hulking, silent killer. Without the niche of the pre-existing characters, what remains is an absolutely terrible horror film with awful lighting, boring kills, and some of the most forgettable characters possible.

3 '2025: The World Enslaved by a Virus' (2021)

The faith-based film is a subgenre that is often seen as an easy target for these types of "worst" lists, considering just how much they prioritize the messaging and impact of scripture and the church over characters, storytelling, or many other filmmaking aspects. While many of these films still have their dedicated fans that have allowed them to succeed, it's difficult to even comprehend of the person who would find enjoyment in 2025: The World Enslaved by a Virus outside the initial year that it released.

This uncompromising piece of blatant political propaganda disguised as a feature film takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where COVID-19 shutdowns are not only still in effect, but have somehow resulted in the outlaw of Christianity and allowed communism to take control. The film almost feels like a joke being made at the expense of right-wing talking points circa 2021 instead of an actual feature film people could pay money to watch. Rounded out with some terribly amateur filmmaking and laughably bad performances, and it isn't exactly surprising that this film became an immediate critical laughingstock.

2 'War of the Worlds' (2025)

H.G. Wells' original sci-fi novel War of the Worlds continues to be celebrated as one of the most important landmark sci-fi stories of all time, having been adapted to film a multitude of different times over the years. However, this modern, screen-life adaptation of the source material completely abandons any of the brilliance or insightful storytelling of the original, replacing it with stilted editing, lazy performances, and in-your-face product placement.

One can only handle so many scenes of Ice Cube unceremoniously reacting to bad CGI destruction of different cities before they go completely insane. This aggressively bad film manages to continuously find new ways to fail and misrepresent the original source material, to the point where this film is completely unrecognizable as an adaptation of the Wells classic. The film was overwhelmingly and mercilessly mocked and lambasted by critics and audiences, to the point where some consider it a new contender for one of the worst movies of all time.

1 'Finding Jesus' (2020)

While every other film on this list is disastrously ineffective in their execution, they at the very least had goals and prospects of being good films, even if misaligned as a final product. This fundamental concept of at least attempting to create a well-made film cannot be attributed to Finding Jesus, an animated film where it frankly feels insulting to even consider it an actual film. This blatant faith-based Finding Nemo riff is little more than a collection of repeated animation as its various characters spread the word of the bible to the creatures of the sea.

There is no action, there are no stakes, and its characters serve no purpose other than as soapboxes for various different bible verses and messages. It takes about a minute before the film has completely run out of original animation, leading the remaining 68 minutes of the film to repeat the same shots and frames with new dialogue. This film was simply made to trick parents who were hopefully looking for a Jesus-friendly alternative to the Pixar film, only to be met with a film that may just have the laziest, most uncaring execution in film history.