We all enjoy watching good-looking, brave people make stupid decisions — that’s why we go to the movies, after all. But some movies push this just a little too far, venturing into “idiot plot” ...

You’re 250 pages in. Your tea is cold. Your emotional stability is questionable. And the protagonist is staring out of a window instead of saying the one sentence that would solve everything. You ...

Writer-director Sophie Brooks’s cringe comedy plays like the idiot plot version of the Kathy Bates-James Caan horror movie Suppose I described a movie plot where a man is held against his will by a ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Viewers should go easier on idiot plots than they used to. Defined by science fiction writer Damon Knight as a story “kept in motion solely by virtue of the fact that ...

``Flawed'' is a word movie critics use more often than jewelers. They have looked into the heart of a sparkling gem and found an imperfection. Every movie should be perfect, and on such grounds, ...