Sandra Bullock became a star in Speed and spent a decade in romantic comedies where the appeal is a specific and undervalued thing: the audience simply wants her to be all right.
She won Best Actress for The Blind Side and was nominated for Gravity, which required her to carry almost the entire film alone in a harness against a green screen.
Miss Congeniality and The Proposal are the commercial peaks, and Crash won Best Picture with her in the ensemble.
She has produced extensively and negotiated back-end deals on Gravity and Bird Box that made her among the highest-paid performers of the period.
Jae HeadThe Blind Side (2009) rates 4 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A competently made film in which a wealthy white family takes in a homeless Black teenager, told almost entirely from the family's position, and Sandra Bullock won…
Don CheadleCrash (2005) rates 4 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Paul Haggis assembled a multi-strand Los Angeles film in which every character holds one racial attitude the plot then corrects, won Best Picture over Brokeback Mountain, and has spent…
Ed HarrisGravity (2013) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Cuaron opens on a thirteen minute unbroken shot and then destroys everything in it. The technical achievement is genuine and permanent. The dialogue keeps explaining a film that was…
Brian McCardieSpeed 2: Cruise Control (1997) rates 3 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The sequel that removed the one thing making the original work. A cruise ship cannot go fast, and the whole premise was speed.
Aaron Taylor-JohnsonDavid Leitch's 2022 Brad Pitt action-comedy. Five assassins on the same Tokyo bullet train, each with overlapping missions.
Denis LearyDemolition Man is one of the funniest action films of the early 1990s and one of the most accidentally prescient. Marco Brambilla directed in his feature.
Anne HathawayOcean's Eight is the all-female spinoff of Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven (2001) trilogy. Ross and Olivia Milch wrote.
Sandra BullockThe Proposal is the best Sandra Bullock romantic comedy of her late career and one of the most commercially successful rom-coms of its decade. Sandra Bullock plays Margaret Tate, a Canadian editor at a New York publishing house who is…
Benjamin BrattMiss Congeniality is the Sandra Bullock comedy where she plays an FBI agent who has to go undercover in a beauty pageant. Marc Lawrence wrote, with revisions by Katie Ford and Caryn Lucas.
Bill PullmanSandra Bullock had been working primarily in supporting and lower-budget productions before While You Were Sleeping. Lucy Moderatz is a lonely Chicago Transit Authority token booth operator who has developed daily romantic fantasy interest in a handsome commuter named Peter…
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