From What's New Pussycat? to Dressed to Kill, Silence of the Lambs to Basic Instinct, the big screen hasn't lacked for memorably twisted shrinks.
Suffice it to say that the latest psycho psych, Dr. Judy Small (Michaela Watkins) in the film Bad Therapy, won't be joining those ranks.
That's not the actress' fault. Watkins (Sword of Trust, Brittany Runs a Marathon) is the kind of performer whose timing — whether in the service of sarcasm, self-deprecation or sweetness — is so finely tuned she elicits giggles, and curiosity, even when you don't know exactly why or how.
Indeed, it's a bit baffling to see her wasting time on this stale, grimly unfunny black comedy, in which her character, a malevolent marriage counselor, experiences a ferocious.