Ten Best Movies After Twilight: Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart
Though they owe a great deal to the Twilight saga, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have shown that they are far more gifted. Although both Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart shot to popularity for their roles in the Twilight films, they have had successful careers since the series ended in 2012. Young performers may find it challenging to escape the limitations of a large-scale production. Audiences sometimes link them so closely with one particular character that they are deprived of chance to prove themselves in other roles.
Though they are now pursuing more varied careers in a greater range of genres, Pattinson and Stewart are still linked to the Twilight saga. Pattinson has collaborated with Christopher Nolan, Robert Eggers and the Safdie brothers, and lately he has added to the distinguished list of Hollywood leading men who have portrayed Batman. Stewart's achievements have been somewhat less well-publicized, but her Oscar nomination has helped to eradicate the idea that she is anything less than a great actor.
Reboots of Stephenie Meyer's divisive Twilight series are under development, but this time the 2000s vampire phenomenon will be animated.
10. The King ( 2019 )
As France's Dauphin in The King, Robert Pattinson presents an unusual performance. Though his accent and some of his quirky gestures contradict the gritty tone of the film, this makes him all the more interesting. At every chance, the snobbish villain The Dauphin harasses and taunts the young King Henry, so inciting an all-out war with France.
Though it doesn't quite reach the heights it seems qualified for, the King does provide some of the most vivid medieval battle scenes ever filmed. Though it draws most of its structure and characterizations from William Shakespeare's historical plays, the King tells a true story. Brutal, crushing reality takes front stage over the romance and iambic pentameter. Though it doesn't quite reach the heights it seems qualified for, the King does provide some of the most vivid medieval battle scenes ever filmed. The Dauphin's darkly funny death is the ideal ending; the Battle of Agincourt is tactile enough to feel dangerous. Even royalty drags down into the muck.
9. Camp X-Ray ( 2014 )
Opening with images of the September 11 attacks, Camp X-Ray explores America's reaction—not just politically but also psychologically and emotionally. Playing a guard at Guantánamo Bay, Kristen Stewart sees the detainees being dehumanized. She also finds how the men in charge objectify her, so reflecting their callous indifference. She is urged to lose her more "feminine" qualities of empathy and compassion while also seen through an exclusively sexual perspective.
Stewart's polished emotional sensibility carries Camp X-Ray. Cole only lets her hair down—both literally and symbolically—when she calls her mother. She is guarded, with a tight bun, and framed to seem boyish from some angles for the rest of her time at Guantánamo Bay. Stewart still manages, with the smallest of motions, to transmit falling torrents of feeling and moral conflict.
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Tenet was the film that welcomed many back to theaters following the first wave of epidemic lockdowns forcing their closing. Tenet's convoluted story left plenty of people wondering, even if a Christopher Nolan cerebral sci-fi masterpiece seemed like the ideal return to theaters. Tenet's ambitious time-travel story might call for several viewings to completely grasp, but its amazing visual set pieces demand no explanation.
Star Robert Pattinson and John David Washington as two members of an enigmatic group tasked with preserving peace in a world where criminals seek to exploit inverted entropy. Tenet isn't as easily approachable than some of Christopher Nolan's other films. Though the inverted action scenes are quite interesting, the complexities of the espionage story are hard to understand.
7. Spencer (2022)
Over her career, Kristen Stewart has faced a lot of unfair criticism for some of her performances—particularly in the Twilight saga. Her passionate answer to the critics, Spencer landed her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. She is exactly Princess Diana, a role that calls for her to revive a public icon while speculating on her most private moments.
Given that Diana's identity was forced to be abandoned upon joining the British royal family, the biopic is titled Spencer, which is fitting. Spencer tracks the people's princess through 1991's winter as she muses over the consequences of divorcing Charles and recovering her uniqueness and autonomy. Though Spencer honors the amazing narrative of Princess Diana's life, there are some artistic oddties that make him more of a psychological drama.
6. Good Time (2017)
Uncut Gems has taken front stage over Good Time. Though Uncut Gems benefited from a larger budget, wider distribution, and the fascinating casting of Billy Madison, Adam Sandler, Safdie brother Movies are both tight roller-coaster rides through New York City. Uncut Gems deserves its flowers; Good Time has never drawn the same kind of audience.
Robert Pattinson plays a bank burglar who has to get cash quickly in any form to release his brother from police custody. Although the Safdie brothers' direction is anything from conventional, this is a rather typical set-up for a crime thriller. Good Time depicts Connie's attempts to help his brother become into a frantic and claustrophobic nightmare over the course of one dizzying night.
5. Still Alice from 2014.
Though Kristen Stewart is also on top form, Still Alice is a wonderful display for Julianne Moore's skills. Stewart plays one of Moore's three children; Moore is a linguistics professor who gets early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Moore's performance keeps the story relevant in a film that might so readily veer into melodrama and manipulation. Her relationship with Stewart seems real.
Though Still Alice does not venture much outside of its niche subgenre, its technique is exact and deliberate. With the characters knowing just as well as the audience on how everything will end in tragedy, the story has a slow, crushing inevitability. Still Alice's widespread fear helps her to restrain occasionally when it might provide more devastating emotional blows. Watching Alice gently lose herself to her illness would not be valuable in and alone. Still Alice knows this, but instead creates a thorough picture of how her diagnosis affects her and her whole family.
4. Love Lies Bleeding (2024)
As a gym manager beginning a relationship with a bodybuilder in an effort to outrun her family's legacy of organized crime, Love Lies Bleeding stars Kristen Stewart plays Stewart's performance in a film bursting with eccentric characters and fashionable 1980s elements stands out for its subtlety. Like her character, she seems to be a reasonably normal woman trying to go about her business while everyone around her won't let her be.
Love Lies Bleeding is endlessly fascinating. Though it has a clever narrative and a subtly deft approach to characterization, it delivers all the violence and sex needed of a fast-paced crime drama. Lou and Jackie's volatile sapphic affair brings the worst out of them both, but they are committed to one another in a way that nobody else is. Love Lies Bleeding eschews most of the clichés about lesbian romances on screen.
3. The Boy and the Heron, 2023
Hayao Miyazaki has cried wolf before when claiming that his next movie will be his last, and The Boy and the Heron looks like another beautiful swansong that may turn out to be just another chapter. Miyazaki summons every ounce of his inimitable magic for The Boy and the Heron. It's his best movie in years, and also one of Studio Ghibli's best for a very long time.
Robert Pattinson's voice is barely discernible in the English-language cast of The Boy and the Heron, which also includes Mark Hamill, Florence Pugh and Christian Bale. The Boy and the Heron is another dream-like fable from Miyazaki, featuring a rich world teeming with strange characters.
The Boy and the Heron is another dream-like fable from Miyazaki, featuring a rich world teeming with strange characters. There is magic and menace in equal measure, but, for all its fantastical weirdness, The Boy and the Heron is a touching and all-too-real story of grief and trauma. Only a director as skilled as Miyazaki can make an animated world with talking birds feel so relatable.
2. The Batman (2022)
Ever since the bright, campy fun of Adam West's Batman TV show, screen portrayals of the Caped Crusader have been trending toward darkness. The Batman is the latest step on this journey, but Matt Reeves' moody, twisted thriller stays true to the character. Robert Pattinson seemed an unlikely choice for the leading role, but he is superb as the tortured protector of Gotham.
The Batman works so well because of its clear vision. Although it may initially seem beholden to Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy, this Batman story has more in common with seedy film noir stories. There are still scenes of frenetic action to please fans of superhero Movies, but The Batman is, first and foremost, a murder mystery about corruption and deceit. Pattinson will return for The Batman - Part II in 2026.
1. The Lighthouse (2019)
Robert Eggers has been building a reputation as an exciting new voice in the horror genre, but The Lighthouse defies such simplistic classifications. Part psychological thriller and part character study, The Lighthouse takes inspiration from a true story and twists it into a dark and unsettling mystery. Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe both deliver outstanding performances as two lighthouse keepers marooned together on a remote island.
The Lighthouse's bold chiaroscuro photography sets the scene for a dramatic tale of obsession and myth. In many ways, the two lighthouse keepers are consumed by one another, but they vacillate between moments of intimacy and bursts of shocking violence. There is a mystery about how much time passes on the island, as if the two men turn their backs on the outside world.
