Best 2025 Movies for entertainment value

#1 Mayday
4.4

Most reviewers find Mayday highly entertaining, funny, and easy to enjoy, with only a small minority calling it forgettable or disappointing.

Pros: sexual content level, acting performance

Cons: score quality, family friendliness

#2 The Housemaid
4.2

Most viewers have fun with the film's deranged camp and crowd-pleasing turns, but the experience ranges from exhilarating to merely watchable.

Pros: lead performance, costume design

Cons: soundtrack quality, editing quality

#3 Avatar: Fire and Ash
4.1

Entertainment value ranges from exhilarating blockbuster fun to outright boredom. Most agree the spectacle is enjoyable, but story tolerance determines whether the full experience works.

Pros: supporting cast performance, chemistry between characters

Cons: tonal consistency, dialogue quality

#4 A Merry Little Ex-mas
3.3

Entertainment value lands in the middle overall. Fans of low-stakes Christmas comfort find it warm, easy, and sometimes surprisingly fun, while harsher critics call it boring, disposable, or actively irritating.

Pros: directing quality, world-building

Cons: suspense, rewatch value

#5 Wicked: For Good
3.3

Overall enjoyment is mixed but generally respectable. Devoted fans and viewers swept up by the performances often have a good time, while others find the long, uneven second act a...

Pros: makeup quality, special effects quality

Cons: cultural representation, screenplay quality

#6 My Secret Santa
3.0

The movie works best as easy holiday comfort or even a guilty-pleasure watch. Several critics still found it forgettable or background-level, and the harshest reviews saw little genuine entertainment beyond...

Pros: special effects quality, practical effects quality

Cons: plot originality, plot clarity

#7 Goodbye June
3.0

Entertainment value depends heavily on tolerance for a slow, sad family drama: one critic found it static and under-engaging, while another still considered it worth recommending.

Pros: lead performance, supporting cast performance

Cons: originality, plot originality