No one is required to love a movie. In fact, some of the criticism I most enjoy reading differs from my own perspective, opening up worlds of thought I wouldn’t have considered. But what’s unforgivable in this case is these reviews’ inability to recognise Bynes’ singular talent as a performer. She deftly infuses Viola and Sebastian with individual quirks and personalities, making them feel like two different people, even if one of them happens to be a fake boy with an outrageous Southern accent. In fact, she does it so well that by the time she goes back and forth between the two characters during the pivotal carnival scene, I had almost forgotten that Sebastian was not Sebastian. As Viola, Bynes is confident and charming, the kind of Jennifer Lawrence-like cool girl who would gladly hand you a tampon in the bathroom — as long as she’s not already using it to stop a nosebleed. As Sebastian, she oozes an inexplicable form of awkward charisma, spitting out perfect line delivery after perfect line delivery, her facial expressions working overtime to nail the laugh . It remains one of her best, most challenging performances