Ladies First

Rosamund Pike cannot fully rescue this uneven comedy about men navigating a world dominated by women. The French original should have gone for some fresh approaches to look at how the patriarchal mindset is difficult to dislodge, but instead packages old wine in a new bottle with dated ideas about gender-based discrimination.

It's an excruciatingly unfunny high-concept thought experiment, imagining a world with flipped gender politics, that's far too happy with itself and what it's allegedly achieving to be passed off as just some charming throwback. Like the other misfires it recalls, it's also a criminal waste of talent, a murderers' row of actors who hopefully got paid handsomely for the embarrassment of this whiffing up their IMDb pages.