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I get second hand embarrassment from watching him field these stupid questions.
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Cosmopolis starring Robert Pattinson is reviewed by Christy Lemire (AP critic) Alonso Duralde (TheWrap.com and Linoleum Knife podcast) and Matt Atchity (Editor-in-chief Rottentomatoes.com). See what other critics are saying: rottentomatoes.com
Funds for the movie were really hard to find. Actually, Robert helped us a lot because of Twilight and that we can’t deny. So bless them! Bless the Twilight movies without which I couldn’t have made this movie.
— David Cronenberg (x)
Sometimes it’s just difficult to make movies that are restricted by the American MPAA-rating. Everything involving sex is being censored right away, while violence is much more accepted – that’s completely crazy! I don’t think there is anything particularly bad in “Cosmopolis”. I wouldn’t have been shocked by any of it at age thirteen – and if you think about, that nowadays every teenager is probably watching some hardcore porn on the internet anyway, it really puts it into perspective.
— Robert Pattinson (x)
Instead, this vapid, claustrophobic drama proves nothing but the emptiness of the Cannes Film Festival’s current tactic for reaping worldwide publicity: giving some of its choicest spots in the 12-day program to B-plus directors’ middling-to-awful films starring young actors with an avid teen following. On Wednesday, ‘The Twilight Saga’s Kristen Stewart in ‘On the Road’. Yesterday, ‘High School Musical’ graduate Zac Efron in ‘The Paperboy’. And today, Robert Pattinson, Stewart’s ‘Twilight’ costar (and boyfriend), trading in vampire fangs for a plutocrat’s snarl. None of the films is worthy of a major film festival. They are here simply for the entertainment news value of celebrities in their 20s ascending the red-carpeted steps to the Grand Palais theater. The movies shown inside are less important than the photos the paparazzi snap and send around the world. Far fewer photos, we’ll warrant, were taken of the 80-something actors Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva as they walked into the world premiere of Michael Haneke’s ‘Amour’, the favorite to win the top-prize Palme d’Or Sunday evening. You can hear a tabloid editor saying, “They’re old and wrinkled and who are they? Get me a shot of somebody young and beautiful and famous: the swoony vampire guy from Twilight.
— Richard Corliss (Time Magazine)
