Best 2025 Movies for screenplay quality

#1 Mayday
3.4

The screenplay earns praise for smart genre writing and balanced character beats, but detractors call it safe, by-the-numbers, or even half-baked.

Pros: sexual content level, acting performance

Cons: score quality, family friendliness

#2 The Housemaid
3.1

The screenplay can feel fast, playful, and sharply constructed, yet exposition, thin psychology, and cheesy dialogue remain recurring complaints.

Pros: lead performance, costume design

Cons: soundtrack quality, editing quality

#3 Goodbye June
2.7

The screenplay is the main fault line in the critical response. Supporters call it sharp, raw, sincere, and even remarkable; detractors describe it as thin, formulaic, heavy-handed, amateurish, and too...

Pros: lead performance, supporting cast performance

Cons: originality, plot originality

#4 A Merry Little Ex-mas
2.7

The screenplay swings between warm, personable, funny genre craft and thin, predictable construction. Its strongest moments feel self-aware and lively; its weakest rely on dated jokes, underdeveloped ideas, and an...

Pros: directing quality, world-building

Cons: suspense, rewatch value

#5 Avatar: Fire and Ash
2.4

The screenplay earns occasional praise for complexity, but most reviewers fault its repetition, thin subplots, and failure to develop promising ideas.

Pros: supporting cast performance, chemistry between characters

Cons: tonal consistency, dialogue quality

#6 My Secret Santa
1.4

The screenplay is a recurring weakness, criticized for clichés, weak logic, lazy communication, and forced conflict. A few reviews still found occasional wit or emotional beats that land.

Pros: special effects quality, practical effects quality

Cons: plot originality, plot clarity

#7 Wicked: For Good
1.3

The screenplay draws substantial criticism for disjointed structure, underexplained turns, repetitive ideas, and additions that do not justify the expanded runtime.

Pros: makeup quality, special effects quality

Cons: cultural representation, screenplay quality