Tag: Speed 2
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Hear me out: why She’s the Man isn’t a bad movie
Continuing our series of writers defending loathed films is a reappraisal of Amanda Bynes’s gender-swapping 2006 comedyI’m sure you must be wondering why a movie in which there is a scene where Amanda Bynes, playing a girl pretending to be her brother, screws up her face to stridently declare in a cartoonishly male voice, “I…
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Hear me out: why Speed 2: Cruise Control isn’t a bad movie
The latest in our series of writers sticking up for maligned movies is a defense of the Sandra Bullock-starring action sequelWhen Jan de Bont’s Speed 2: Cruise Control was released in 1997, there were only two American critics who gave it positive reviews: Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert. The film’s reputation has not improved since…