More from the critical reviews for 'Good Time' starring Robert Pattinson

The reviews from the Cannes premiere of the Safdie brother's 'Good Time' starring Robert Pattinson are in and they are fantastic!



For all the early reaction visit our post here.  There were so many great comments about the films and Rob's performance that we wanted to highlight some.  See the quotes copied below:


The Hollywood Reporter

"If the Safdie Brothers' last feature, Heaven Knows What, evoked The Panic in Needle Park with its cinema verite observation of the New York City heroin subculture, their impressive follow-up, Good Time, sees them continuing to draw inspiration from the gritty American movies of the 1970s, albeit with their own distinctive street edge. Led by Robert Pattinson, giving arguably his most commanding performance to date as a desperate bank robber cut from the same cloth as Al Pacino's Sonny Wortzik in Dog Day Afternoon, this is a richly textured genre piece that packs a visceral charge in its restless widescreen visuals and adrenalizing music, which recalls the great mood-shaping movie scores of Tangerine Dream."

"the magnetic center is Pattinson, playing a driven man whose ethics may be questionable even if his motivation at all times is rooted in fraternal devotion. It's a performance of can't-look-away intensity without an ounce of movie-star vanity."

 Variety

"Even before the knowingly retro typography of the opening titles kicks in, it’s clear that the sweaty urgency of 1970s New Hollywood — in particular, such hard-headed urban dramas as “Dog Day Afternoon” and “Taxi Driver” — is a key point of reference for the Safdies here. Still, if there’s a grainy classicism to the film’s craft, balancing the fevered formal poetry of 2014’s heroin love story “Heaven Knows What” with Lumet-channeling tautness, it’s no simple throwback exercise. “Good Time’s” passing but pointed glimpses of social disenfranchisement across a range of demographics place its narrative squarely in Donald Trump’s America of 2017."

"Pattinson, by contrast, enters proceedings as a frenzied human cyclone of bad hair and worse decisions. It’s not so much the matted, cheaply peroxided mop and faux diamond earrings that banish the erstwhile “Twilight” star’s willowy brooding from memory: It’s the antic, stressful body language, the rapid, hungry gait of a man with more to run from than run to, that makes Connie sympathetic and repulsive in equal, sometimes simultaneous, measure."

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Roundup of the critics reviews for The Childhood of a Leader with Robert Pattinson

UPDATED With NEW Reviews
Robert Pattinson's latest role to be released 'The Childhood of a Leader' had it's first screening at the Venice Film Festival a few hours ago and the first of the critical reviews are here:



Cine Vue

"The Childhood of a Leader is a dark, enigmatic piece of work that hovers between visionary greatness and petty domestic triviality. Corbet's inaugural stint behind the camera marks a stunning debut and the finest film at Venice thus far."

"a US diplomat assisting the President, is drinking with Charles (Robert Pattinson), a journalist whose wife has recently died"

The Film Stage

"What could very easily be received as an irritating, pretentious feature debut is actually a display of controlled madness full of astute touches, like the use of Robert Pattinson’s persona in the few scenes he’s in. Let’s just hope the devoted fanbase he’s been leading into uncharted territory in the last few years will make it to the end of this one."

Screen Daily

"Corbet’s assured direction of an excellent cast, it makes for an edgy, poetic mix with the dramatic potency of a good nightmare"

"Perhaps Robert Pattinson’s four brief appearances in the film will trick a few teenage girls into buying a ticket; if so, they’d better be prepared for an uncompromisingly grown-up, intelligent, allusive cineaste experience."

Eye for Film

"indeed it may seem like unfeasibly high praise but there are echoes of the masters (Luchino Visconti, notably) in Lol Crawley’s superb 35mm cinematography."

Cine Cola

"the film fundamentally depends on the performances by the excellent European cast, that delivers solid turns. THE CHILDHOOD OF A LEADER also includes a cameo by ROBERT PATTINSON, who only appears for little under fifteen minutes of the film overall, but does so with great credibility."


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Blast from the Past: The critics reviews for Robert Pattinson's performance in Cosmopolis

This blast from the past post is one of my favourite Robert Pattinson fandom moments ever! Do you remember when the premiere for Cosmopolis screened in Cannes in 2012?





As the applause continued for David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis many of us fans were scouring twitter for the first reactions.  We knew the critics reactions for Cosmopolis would be a turning point for Rob's career.



Read after the cut for the first tweets that started to filter out as our excitement grew ....

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FIRST 'Maps To The Stars' REVIEW: Robert Pattinson Shows He's More Than A Pretty Face

The first review for Maps To The Stars appeared in Studio Cinelive Magazine and makes me even more excited to see this movie!
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Translation

Forget the gloomy or easy-peasy Cosmopolis and A Dangerous Method, Cronenberg is back to his domain of preference: rough, trashy with crazy characters and a hypnotizing atmosphere. Maps To The Stars is like a reborn for his filmography. Is it because for the first time he endorses the pamphlet's codes in this dark and incandscent representation of Hollywood where the false pretences are set as a moral code.

A family of nutcases, a star's comeback, a young roquet, a pyromaniac schizo-poet or a young limousine drive with a predatory smile who fucks in the backseat: Cronenberg feasts on these crazy characters and this culture of appearances in a very passionate movie. Maps To The Stars is raw and hypnotic, between reality and fantasy, dreams and nightmares. Until an icy and violent ending pursued with surprising events.

Mia reveals her "poisonous flower" side, Robert Pattinson shows he's more than a pretty face and Julianne's through the roof with what will become THE performance of a career which is already brilliant. Just like Cronenberg who renews with this twisted , distinguished and intelligent cinema.

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Compilation Of Positive Feedback For Robert Pattinson's 'The Rover'

Compilation Of Positive Feedback For Robert Pattinson's 'The Rover'



Our sister site TheRoverFilm have compiled a collection of feedback from various film and media outlets about The Rover teaser trailer that debuted online yesterday.
As I write this the teaser has been on You Tube for just 19hours and already has over 132k views!

After reading through the feedback below I guarantee you'll love that Rob and The Rover Team are getting the credit they deserve for their hard work AND this is just the for the teaser!
Grab yourself a cuppa, have a look at the teaser again (go on I know you want to!) and then read the compilation (after the cut)

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"Robert Pattinson Reveals A Deepness That Gets More & More Fascinating As His Character Gets Closer To Hitting Rock Bottom"- Premiere Review

"Robert Pattinson Reveals A Deepness That Gets More & More Fascinating As His Character Gets Closer To Hitting Rock Bottom"- Premiere Review

Check out this great first review of "Cosmopolis" from Premiere Magazine
And if you missed it earlier check out Rob's new photoshoot and interview from Premiere Magazine HERE



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New York is on war footing. The President of the USA is passing through and demonstrations are threating to drown Manhattan in chaos. Eric Packer, 28 years old millionaire, doesn't care. No matter what happens, he will go get his haircut on the other side of town.

We're not going to lie, whether we like David Cronenberg's recent movies, we were seriously missing the filmmaker of Videodrome and Crash. Pop open the champagne because he's back in every shot of Cosmopolis. Even though he's adapting someone else's work, the Canadian filmmaker recognized his young/offsprings in the novel of DeLillo. The absurd and persistent odyssey of a young wolf in finance who parades colleagues, mistresses and doctors in his high-tech limo. When he reaches his destination, he might be left with nothing (the Japanese currency threatens his wallet, his wife is more and distant, it's getting unbearable.) but the answer of the question that haunts him, without being able to articulate it: Can the one who possesses everything still desire anything else?

Cronenberg made sure that all his obsessions punctuate his route, whether they are intellectual (the search for 'another' reality) or carnal/physical (another scene that will make people talk, Packer learns that his prostate asymmetrical). Enthroned in the back seat of his limousine Robert Pattinson reveals a deepness that gets more & more fascinating as his character gets closer to hitting rock bottom/gets closer to the abyss. The fear that surrenders his face in the last moments doesn't belong only to this anti-hero that arrived at the point of no return, but it's also the fear of an actor who tests his limits with an unsuspected bravery. With a feverish and decadent ride in Hell, Cosmopolis proves that he's not done testing them.

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Bel Ami Review: "Robert Pattinson Is Spot On As The Louche Lothario"

You have got to read this great review of Robert Pattinson's "Bel Ami" from WhatsonStage.com
I promise it will put a smile on your face. Check it out below!



Bel Ami is a sumptuous transposition to the screen (by no means the first) of Guy de Maupassant's fin de siecle Parisian novel starring Robert Pattinson as Georges Duroy, the dissolute French soldier who rises to the top of society and journalism by the simple expedient of sleeping with the wives of his employers.

These three married lovers are played by Uma Thurman, sly, slinky and smouldering as the political editor's wife, who writes Georges' articles for him; Kristin Scott Thomas, giving a brilliant performance of vulnerability thawing into hysterical abandon as the editor's wife, whom he seduces in church and viciously rejects partly in order to marry her daughter; and Christina Ricci, foxy and flirtatious as the deeply attractive Clotilde, whom he loves above all the others, and whose pert little daughter dubs him "bel ami."

It's a deeply sour tale of having your cake and eating it, and it's beautifully played and sumptuously costumed. And you can't fail to notice in these rocky days for newspaper ethics, that Georges moves sideways from his diary of a cavalryman in the Algerian war to head of gossip on the broadsheet; he draws a line, though, at taking his share of the profits when war-mongering becomes a sort of insider trading.

Donnellan and Ormerod ran a five-week rehearsal period before they even got on the studio floor, and it shows. The music swells, but not all the time; you can hear the actors breathe, the long dresses rustle, the symbolic cockroach scuttle across Georges' attic before he pummels it to death.

As a debut movie, and made for the comparative pittance of nine million euros, it's almost indecently good and highly accomplished. And although Pattinson twitches his nostrils a little too often, he's spot on as the louche lothario.

The set-piece scenes, too, in low taverns and high society, are a vigorous swirl of colour and choreography, studded with sharp performances all round. Nice to see little nuggety vignettes from Timothy Walker (an early Cheek by Jowl stalwart) as a lawyer and Christopher Fulford as a police officer.

There's a magnificent deathbed scene when Georges goes to comfort Uma Thurman's almost-widow as Philip Glenister coughs up his last on the coast at Cannes. And the interiors and location shots (Budapest stands in for Paris) are a continuous delight.

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"Robert Pattinson's Ability To Keep The Audience Interested In His Fate Illustrates Real Talent" - "Bel Ami" Review

This review by Jennie Kermode for Eye for Film gives Robert Pattinson's "Bel Ami" 4 out of 5 stars.
It's a good one, have a read below ;-)



For many, of course, the main reason to see this will be star Robert Pattinson. He certainly doesn't disappoint, but largely because he knows how to play an unlikeable character well, and it's anyone's guess how fans will react to that. He's often shirtless, of course, because all young Georges - the bel ami of the title - has to sell when he arrives in Paris is his body. But Georges isn't looking to scrape a living on the streets. The other thing he possesses is ambition. By seducing rich women, he fancies he might find a means of manipulating rich men and climbing up the social ladder.

It's a popular conceit, and Georges is completely, hopelessly wrong - wide open to being taken advantage of by women far more sophisticated than he is - but it's how he comes to recognise this, and adapt, despite his limited intelligence and lack of any real talent, that makes up the meat of the film. Because Pattinson isn't afraid to play weakness, mediocrity or petty spite, he is perfect in the role, less romantic hero than would-be Bullingdon boy. His ability to keep the audience interested in his fate despite this illustrates real talent.

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"Remember Me" - More Than Just A Romantic Drama, It's About Family

This review doesn't really contain any spoilers but if your a total "Remember Me" virgin and want to remain pure then skip it until you've seen the film, you have been warned!

I was blown away by Robert Pattinson’s new movie Remember Me. The film is a romantic drama with gut wrenching twist at the end. Do you remember the twist at the end of The Sixth Sense?

The surprise ending of Remember Me will knock you out of your seat because it will completely change your perception of this movie.

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