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While critics were generally pleased with this biographical drama about British adventurer Major Percival Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam), who disappeared in the Amazon in the 1920s, some agreed with viewers who felt the movie dragged and was overly ambitious without much payoff. Pattinson’s role as the “eccentric, bearded assistant” is interesting, but not enough to rescue a film that borders on boring.

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Based on the short novel by Jean-Paul Sartre, this 2015 drama explores the early life of a post-World War I fascist leader in France, but was overly ambitious and not rooted in enough reality, according to some critics. Even with its capable cast and beautiful art direction, The Hollywood Reporter noted that Pattinson’s small role as Charles did little to improve “an embarrassing hodgepodge that’s very hard to follow.”

Pattinson’s “terrible western accent” wasn’t the only problem for one reviewer, who called this comedy/western an “extended goof.” The movie follows rich pioneer Samuel Alabaster (Pattinson) across the American frontier to reunite with and wed his love, Penelope (Mia Wasikowska). While the strange, comedic tone of the film, as well as a dramatic shift partway through, were meant to make it innovative, it mostly feels like it doesn’t know what it wants to be.

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The premise of this 2015 biographical drama from director Anton Corbijn is an interesting one. Pattinson stars as a photographer for LIFE Magazine who takes on an assignment documenting film star James Dean (Dane DeHaan) after they meet at a party. But even a good premise didn’t win over critics or audiences, who were mostly lukewarm in their reactions to the film, which was considered a disappointment to many who were hoping for more from both a respected director and capable stars.

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Pattinson stars alongside Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska and John Cusack in director David Cronenberg’s 2014 comedy-drama about Hollywood life and celebrity. Film critic Richard Roeper minced no words when he said that, even with strong performances, the movie was “a grotesque, self-indulgent and ultimately tiresome satire.”

The first instalment of author Stephenie Meyer’s bestselling novel series was a breakout role for Robert Pattinson in 2008. As popular as the developing romance between teen Bella (Kristen Stewart) and dreamy 108-year-old vampire Edward (Pattinson) was with fans, it was not as adored by critics, who considered the “unrequited, and altogether unfun pseudo-romantic riff” painful to watch. One critic called the fact that it’s “not completely appalling” its greatest achievement.

Even the nuanced performance of Mark Rylance as a peaceful magistrate, Johnny Depp’s turn as an authoritarian colonel, and Pattinson’s solid but underused role as the colonel’s right-hand man aren’t enough to elevate this 2019 drama beyond mediocre. The underwhelming political fable earned a meagre 53% critical rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

10 dumbest uses of CGI in movies

10 dumbest uses of CGI in movies

While it was considered more entertaining than some of the instalments in the Twilight franchise, the 2012 film that follows Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward’s (Robert Pattinson) efforts to protect newborn vampire baby Renesmee from the dangerous Volturi was still panned. As Rolling Stone reviewer Peter Travers put it, calling the final instalment of the series the best of the bunch is “like saying a simple head cold is preferable to swine flu.”

This 2008 comedy-drama stars Pattinson as a down-on-his-luck singer-songwriter who uses his inheritance to hire a self-help coach (Powell Jones) in the hopes it will change his life. Written and directed by Oliver Irving, the movie was skewered by critics, who called it “an astonishingly irrelevant piece of work,” and “a taxing reminder that middle-class depression ranks among cinema's least engaging topics.”

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Pattinson’s turn as a young billionaire who takes a reflective ride around Manhattan in a limo as his fortunes crumble around him was praised by some critics. However, the 2012 thriller written and directed by David Cronenberg was less loved overall, by both audiences and reviewers. One found the adaptation, based on a novel by Don DeLillo, to be “lifeless, stagey and lacking a palpable subversive pulse.”

Made for the BBC, The Haunted Airmanis a 2006 horror film that stars Pattinson as an injured Royal Air Force pilot who begins to experience hallucinations and odd happenings in the mansion he’s sent to for recovery. Criticized for its “pointless premise” and for the fact that Pattinson broods his way through a predictable and boring story, the movie is one for the forgettable file.

Fans of the popular book series turned out in droves to see the second instalment in theatres, but most critics couldn’t understand the appeal of this 2009 movie. The story of Bella (Kristen Stewart) seeking comfort from Jacob (Taylor Lautner) when her vampire lover Edward (Pattinson) leaves is as soapy and melodramatic as it sounds. The movie was panned for being overly long, and “a draining experience, but not in a good way.”

“A sense of overbearing doom” hangs over this “feel bad film of 2010” that sees Pattinson as a troubled soul with a tragic past. Of course, he starts to heal once he meets the perfect mate, Ally (Emilie de Ravin), who has demons of her own. Film critics were disappointed in how what seemed like a typical boy-meets-girl story turned from tired to terrible due to a contrived and overwritten twist ending.

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The 2011 instalment of the Twilight saga wins the title of the worst-reviewed chapter in the film series, earning a 25% critical rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The story follows the wedding of Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson), which is predictably complicated by a turn of events that threatens to turn the vampire and werewolf worlds against one another. With a script that contains “staggeringly banal, subtext-free dialogue” and “barely enough content” for a movie, it’s not one of Pattinson’s finest film contributions.

What could have been a compelling biopic about artist Salvador Dalí (Pattinson) and his relationship with poet and playwright Federico García Lorca (Javier Beltrán) and aspiring filmmaker Luis Buñuel (Matthew McNulty) is a boring and inaccurate “historical kiss-off” according to one critic. The 2008 drama was also panned for trying to play to a teen audience instead of exploring the truly interesting lives of the artists and that period in Spanish history.

Writer-director Werner Herzog is normally known for his strangely fascinating films, but critics found this biographical drama about explorer, cartographer and archaeologist Gertrude Bell (Nicole Kidman) to be slow and tedious. Pattinson plays Bell’s contemporary, archaeologist T.E. Lawrence, and even with adequate acting from him and the rest of the cast, which includes James Franco and Damian Lewis, the movie amounts to a pretty-looking sedative.

This romantic drama made up of five short films has the lowest rating of any Pattinson film on Rotten Tomatoes, with an 11% audience score. In Pattinson’s vignette, which was originally released as a short film called “The Summer House,” he plays a man trying to win back the love of his life (Talulah Riley) on the night of the moon landing. Its brevity may be a blessing, with one critic noting that the convoluted plot and poor performances make it dull to watch.