The biggest fault with “Kingdom” is the writing. I’m not sure what went wrong during that process but something most definitely did. Certain scenes are thrown in which add a whole lot of nothing to the story: Pope, one of the brothers, orders Joshua (also known as J) to boost a Camaro and deliver it to him at 2 o’clock in the morning. No explanation is given why. A few hours later, two cops looking for the stolen car notice a Camaro parked in the middle of the road, with its doors open. As they search inside, three men appear out of nowhere and shoot them execution-style.

Horrible Bosses pretends to be a movie for all people who hate their bosses, but really it’s a film for all people who hate film. Directed by Seth Gordon and partly produced by Brett Ratner, it’s the a classic case of a movie that doesn’t seem that wretched, until you start to take it apart afterwards and realize how badly you wasted two hours. It has some funny moments, yes, but that barely hides the fact that it approaches a cultural disaster.

The year is 1993. Nine Cistercian monks live in the monastery of Tibhirine in the Atlas mountains of Algeria. The monks live in good intelligence with the Muslim villagers, farming, making honey, treating patients in their clinic, teaching children. Unfortunately, the precursor—and to us now familiar—signs of fundamental Islam are entering this peaceful community. Murders of foreign construction workers, kidnappings, enforcement of hijab and exactions set the scene. The monks, though clearly in danger, refuse to leave for a less threatening environment despite entreaties from local authorities. Xavier Beauvois’s film tells this true story that takes place over three years in “Of Men and Gods,” which received the Grand Prize of the Jury at the last Cannes Film Festival.

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