Amanda Bynes

‘What a Girl Wants’ (2003) gives viewers what they want: Firth and Bynes

“What a Girl Wants” (2003), rightly regarded as Amanda Bynes’ best starring role, adds sprinkles to the cake of the teen rom-com genre. It’s mostly

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Bynes’ ‘Lovewrecked’ (2005) is a cheaply made wreck

Amanda Bynes showed early talent for acting on skit shows “All That” and “The Amanda Show,” then did movies and a sitcom in the Aughts,

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‘Sydney White’ (2007) is a little dopey, but mostly cute

Writer Chad Gomez Creasy has a cool idea for “Sydney White” (2007) – to take the basic outline of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves”

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Gender lines blur in ‘Just One of the Guys’ (1985), ‘She’s the Man’ (2006)

With transgender rights rising toward the top of the news cycle for the first time in human history, it’s interesting to look back at two

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Emma Stone’s ‘Easy A’ earns a solid B (Movie review)

I felt like I saw “Easy A” before I actually saw it because the previews explained the plot with such specificity: Nice girl Olive (Emma Stone) pretends

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