You could tell the bad guy was the bad guy because he vaped

Strikingly pedestrian in practically every aspect, but eminently charming as hell, with its heart in the right place and featuring some great ingenious performances to boot, specially the lead one by Ashleigh Murray (aka Josie from 'Riverdale'). I like how the delightfully hammy villain played by Tim Blake Nelson defining character trait is that he vapes, and that's all you need to know from him. Trying to make it up for totally uninspiredly shot films with post-production shenanigans however, it's not cool, and the coming of age genre does this far too often. Also, SNL's Sasheer Zamata does a damn good 'Edge of Seventeen' Woody Harrelson here.

wow it sure would be nice if cops were punished irl for using excessive force like the guy was in this movie 🙃

Why don't we just let women steal from corporations?

This is just a nice, light hearted, and quite wholesome movie.

On paper, this looked set to be a Disney Channel movie of the week type affair or another Netflix dud in the same vein as Coin Heist.

Fortunately, Deidra & Laney Rob a Train is actually a lot of fun. The two leads are great and it's stylish, energetic and absolutely rattles along. Definitely worth a punt.

I was absolutely charmed to death by this film. It's definitely on the light side but you know what? I don't care. Not every movie where two sisters decide to rob a train to help their mum get out of prison and shenanigans ensues needs to be dark and gritty, okay? This movie has everything: sister love, a caper, bristol board art, trains, mom love, and Missi Pyle.

The sweet, funny, FEMALE-DIRECTED black girl train robbery film I never knew I needed until now!!!!

I really enjoyed this! I almost always like films with teen characters, and the plot of this was a unique take on high school and coming of age stories. I also really liked the cast! Very fun film.

Randomly rewatched this and it was still cute with some laughs but doesn't hold up as well as I remember in my head from almost 6 years ago. Still think there's something worth looking at as the concept of teen girl train robbers is really fun and there's some interesting commentary on breaking generational cycles. Laney's pageant subplot and mean girl villain feel overly juvenile in the movie compared to Deidra's slightly more grounded dilemma.
While there's some attempts at directorial style, I was very distracted at the general blandness in the color grading on screen, it was washing out the black characters badly, especially the dark skin Ashleigh Murray, and not in a way that felt intentional.
The best parts were during robberies but that may just me being biased lol.
Ashleigh is pretty decent in this role, it will make you wish she had been serviced better on Riverdale or Katy Keene