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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The Girl On The Train (2016)

A daily commute on a train allows a woman, not a girl, to observe the lives of two couples who seem to pop out and share intimate moments on their balconies with the regularity of cuckoo birds marking the time and the commuter gets mixed up in a murder case when one of the observed disappears, in this adaptation of the popular - but judging by this movie - ridiculously plotted Paula Hawkins book, a perfect movie for anyone who likes their mystery thrillers to unfold surprise-free, in an incoherent monotone, mostly in the dark and out of chronological order to disguise how unremarkable it is, with only personality-free characters, several of them indistinguishable from each other, behaving in only completely cracked ways.

★☆☆☆☆

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