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You could chart a mini arc of corporate feminism onto theCharlies Angelsfranchise.

Kristen Stewart, Ella Balinska and Naomi Scott in Charlie’s Angels

There was a disastrous video game in there somewhere, and a short-lived second TV series in 2011.

A man tells one of the main characters to smile (he dies!).

Shes not a natural with action.

Are we on a boat?

Naomi Scott groggily asks in one sequence, after waking up from being drugged.

Yeah, Stewart replies.

The music swells, and the camera pulls out to reveal that they are indeed on a boat scene!

Or when Stewart is on screen.

Its only Stewart, whose line readings are wildly counterintuitive, who finds a rhythm that works.

She plays her character as a crypto-queer, filter-free goofball, and its wonderfully weird.