The 8 Biggest Movies of 2025, and Whether They Were Any Good

Money and quality are different sports. Here are 2025's eight biggest worldwide earners, smallest gross first, with the scores saying whether your ticket was worth it.

Number one made over $2 billion, and you probably never saw it.

1. 8
   F1 (2025)8.3

   Brad Pitt sold us a car commercial, and we bought it.

   An 8.3 movie.guru score and an A CinemaScore for a plot you can predict from the poster. $634 million worldwide, on a reported budget as high as $300 million.
2. 7
   How to Train Your Dragon (2025)8.0

   A remake nobody needed that somehow still earned its wings.

   $636.9 million worldwide, a hair past F1. Audiences rated it above 94% of movies, critics only 58%. Nostalgia did most of the flying here.
3. 6
   Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle (2025)9.2

   Best score here, on Avatar's snack budget.

   9.2 movie.guru score, 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, $793.6 million worldwide off a reported $20 million. The catch: newcomers will be lost within minutes.
4. 5
   A Minecraft Movie (2025)4.4

   The worst movie on this list made nearly a billion.

   A 4.4 movie.guru score and 47% on Rotten Tomatoes, yet $960.4 million worldwide. Jack Black yelled at blocks, and a whole generation of kids yelled back.
5. 4
   Lilo & Stitch (2025)6.9

   A billion dollars to remind you the cartoon was better.

   $1.04 billion worldwide on a reported $100 million budget. Critics rated it above only 44% of movies. Audiences gave it an A because Stitch is cute, and that's the pitch.
6. 3
   Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)7.4

   Cameron's prettiest screensaver yet, and easily the priciest.

   $1.49 billion worldwide on a reported $350 to 400 million. A 7.4 movie.guru score, 66% on Rotten Tomatoes. Gorgeous water, gorgeous fire, same blue family arguing.
7. 2
   Zootopia 2 (2025)8.5

   The rare billion-dollar sequel that actually earned the money.

   $1.87 billion worldwide, 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, an 8.5 that critics and fans agree on. It still leans on the first one's buddy-cop formula pretty hard.
8. 1
   Ne Zha 2 (2025)8.8

   The biggest movie of 2025, and most of America skipped it.

   $2.27 billion worldwide, just $23.3 million domestic. An 8.8 movie.guru score, with audiences rating it above 98% of movies. Your favorite movie of 2025 probably made less.

$64.17 says you scroll back up to check if Minecraft really outgrossed Demon Slayer.

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