"Thrillingly Embarrassing"

After a week's hiatus, Bad Movie Friday returns with a vengeance, in the form of the made-for-TV Rosie O'Donnell vehicle Riding the Bus with My Sister. Perhaps Ms. O'Donnell reckoned that her star turn as a mentally handicapped woman would be critic proof, as no one wants to be accused of insensitivity. But she didn't account for the sly critical genius of Virginia Heffernan, who set upon this stinker like a 13th-century Mongol horde upon a defenseless city on the steppe:

This underhanded...