Bad Girl (2016)

When Chloe (Hugo Weaving's niece, Samsara Weaving) is first introduced, she is good - save-a-life angelic good - but the contrast between her and bad girl Amy (Sara West, not Hugo Weaving's niece), a juvenile delinquent causing her foster parents major headaches, is barely established when Chloe turns bad - Glenn-Close-in-Fatal-Attraction bad - and from the moment Amy discovers Chloe to be this rank nutter, the movie manages to protract to seventy more minutes (scream, scream, scream) a situation which Amy (scream scream scream) really should have been able to sort out in the first five. 

★★☆☆☆

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Wish You Were Here (2012)

This well-acted 2015 movie about an Australian foursome's trouble-filled holiday to Cambodia and its aftermath is rather dishonestly marketed as a mystery and while there is an investigation (an inert and highly unlikely one) launched in Sydney, Australia after only three of the bogans return from the trip, viewers who persist through the protracted misery, I mean mystery, will be disappointed by a revelation at the end that is impossible to predict and that makes the movie's whole fall apart, unless some tenuous thing is being suggested that links marital and familial dischord, bad behaviour overseas, and trauma.

★★☆☆☆

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