Ready Or Not (2019)

The trouble with the premise of this quirky slasher - that a bride playing hide and seek on her wedding night discovers the game, played with her gaming family in-laws, is a murderous one - is that too quickly the bride is able to extricate herself from the family's gothic mansion, a move akin to taking your queen off the chessboard so it can run free across the game table, turning the game into a not terribly interesting foot chase outside between her and just one member of the in-laws' entourage...as though having set up the goofy premise the movie then didn't have enough smarts to keep the idea going for very long.

★★☆☆☆

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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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