3 d. ago Jamie Lee Curtis hits back at Freakier Friday review: ‘Some people love me’

The Oscar-winning star took to social media to defend the new sequel

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5 d. ago I'm a Gen Z film critic and Freakier Friday has one glaring problem

This decades-late sequel has one glaring problem

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5 d. ago Lindsay Lohan deserved a better career – and she’s always known it

The famously chaotic ‘Mean Girls’ star – who has returned to the Disney fold in this week’s ‘Freakier Friday’ – has been hungry for professional respect and opportunities since the earliest days of her fame. But there’s a simple reason why she felt entitled to more, writes Adam White, and why she might finally get it

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5 d. ago Freakier Friday review: Twice as many body swaps, but this ropy sequel's only half the fun, writes BRIAN VINER

In Freakier Friday, a sequel to the 2003 film again starring Lohan and Curtis, the phenomenon befalls not just one pair of females but two, writes Brian Viner.

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7 d. ago Freakier Friday review: Finally, a true comeback for Lindsay Lohan — and Disney sequels

A star cast, past wrongs righted, and laughs aplenty — has Disney broken its own straight-to-DVD sequel curse?

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7 d. ago Freakier Friday review – puppyishly uninhibited Jamie Lee Curtis saves body

The body-swap comedy continues and while Lindsay Lohan puts in a serviceable appearance it’s her co-star who makes this zany update a treatNo one could be gamer or goofier than Jamie Lee Curtis in this latest twist in the Freaky Friday body-swap franchise; she finds some distinctly likable form, plays broad comedy to the hilt and pretty much carries the movie – with the help of some nice supporting cameo turns – when her co-star Lindsay Lohan isn’t exactly nailing the laughs. And it should be said that as an essay in alternative existences and parallel realities, this film and Curtis’s starring role are far more interesting than the bafflingly overrated Oscar-winner Everything Everywhere All at Once.The preceding film, from 2003, had Curtis and Lohan as a quarrelling mother and daughter who swap bodies due to the hilarious magical otherness of Chinese fortune cookies. (In 2025, the new version is a bit culturally lairy of gags like that.) It is based on Mary Rodgers’s 1972 novel, fi...

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7 d. ago Freakier Friday review: Lindsay Lohan deserves better than the unfunny nostalgia of this belated sequel

This should be the movie to remind audiences of the Noughties icon’s star power – but none of her magic is up there on the screen

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