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All Anna Kendrick Movies Ranked

Anna Kendrick’s first film was 2003’s Camp, a musical set at a camp for performing artists in upstate New York, a fitting extension of Kendrick’s childhood start in theater around her birthplace of Portland, Maine. The first of many Certified Fresh awards came with her next movie, Rocket Science; being cast as Jessica in the Twilight franchise meant Kendrick would have a high-profile job waiting for her for years to come.

Her career would soon become defined by steady versatility, appearing in a wide range of films like End of Watch, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, and Cake. Kendrick is particularly adept in comedy hybrids, as seen in in The Voices, A Simple Favor, 50/50, and Up in the Air, the last of which garnered her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nom. Meanwhile, she’s been one of the 2010s most reliable musical stars – just look at Into the Woods, Trolls and, of course, the Pitch Perfect series.

Her latest films were Stowaway and the Trolls sequel, World Tour. And now, we’re ranking all Anna Kendrick movies by Tomatometer!

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All Kristen Stewart Movies Ranked by Tomatometer

Before she became ambassador for vegetarian vampire-and-werewolf relations in the late 2000s, Kristen Stewart had already built a steady career transitioning from child actor roles and into young adulthood. First, she starred in David Fincher’s efficient potboiler Panic Room, then went into space with with Jumanji cinematic universe-adjacent Zathura (directed by pre-Iron Man Jon Faverau), and helped guide a wayward traveler in Into the Wild.

Of course, that all seems like pre-history in the wake of Twilight, the romantic fantasy phenomenon that would make unlikely tabloid stars out of Stewart and Robert Pattinson for years to come. Five Twilight movies released annually for a half-decade, and whatever the benefits of becoming household names through them, there was also the very real threat of a post-career forever in the shadow of the vampire.

Stewart responded, much like Pattinson, by going indie, as she racked up impressive performances in the likes of Still Alice, Personal Shopper, Clouds of Sils Maria, and Certain Women, working with big arthouse names like Olivier Assayas and Kelly Reichardt. She also completed her unofficial “Co-Starring Jesse Eisenberg” trilogy that started with Adventureland, following through with American Ultra and Cafe Society.

Even Stewart’s approach towards mainstream filmmaking come packaged with feminist or revisionist touches, like Charlie’s Angels or Snow White and the Huntsman. She took a dive in Underwater, and ended 2020 on a Happiest Season. And now we’re ranking all her movies by Tomatometer!

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How to Watch Twilight Movies In Order

If you’re getting ready to experience the seductive, suspenseful love story of Bella and Edward for the first time, here’s how you can watch all Twilight movies in order. 2008’s original Twilight introduces us to teenager Bella (Kristen Stewart) and her attraction to Edward (Robert Pattinson), a vampire-among-us. New Moon makes it a triangle with the arrival of Jacob (Taylor Lautner), he of a rival werewolf pack. The real battle begins in Eclipse, come to a bed-smashing head in the two-part Breaking Dawn. See below for our guide on how to watch all Twilight movies in order.

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The 30 Essential Vampire Movies To Watch Right Now

Werewolves, mummies, and cobbled-together lab freaks have been around since the earliest decades of film, but no monster was perhaps more camera-ready than the vampire. Those counts and lords who love to mug and menace for the camera, mesmerize with their fancy capes, and whose pale skin glows in the luminous flicker of old film cameras. So no surprise that some of the best vampire movies back then are some of the best vampires now, like Dracula, Nosferatu, and Vampyr, even as they approach their centennial anniversaries. That’s the bar that’s been set for our guide to the essential and best vampire movies, and still we found plenty worthy to follow in their fang-steps.

Across legend, we know vampires for their allure and seductive properties. (Or at least, just their property — who wouldn’t be charmed by a 600-bedroom castle?) The sex appeal of the vampires has especially been played up in movies since the ’80s: As the sexy suburban neighbor (Fright Night), the upper-strata socialites (The Hunger), and a smoulderer’s row of hot guys (Interview with the Vampire) and leather jacket rebels (The Lost Boys).

Or if you just want some action, see From Dusk ‘Til Dawn, Daybreakers, Underworld, and 30 Days of Night.

So, looking for something to watch on your next open-coffin-and-chill night? Then go to bat with our 30 Essential Vampire Movies!

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All Robert Pattinson Movies, Ranked By Tomatometer

Robert Pattinson on the Twilight series press circuits would occasionally mock the movies he was out there supposedly promoting, suggesting two things: (1) maybe this new on the scene IT boy was actually a genuine person, and (2) he had made enough money by New Moon to never work in this town again. Many young actors’ careers have been crushed under the weight of the very things that made them famous. And unemployment post-Twilight was a very real threat for Pattinson: Would he only be remembered as that pasty sparkling vegetarian vampire?

As Twilight wound down, Pattinson threw himself before the arthouse gods, who guided him to challenging directors like David Cronenberg (Cosmopolis, Maps to the Stars), Anton Corbijn (Life), Werner Herzog (Queen of the Desert), and David Michôd (The Rover). And though none of those movies represented their respective director’s best work, and in the case of Herzog it was actually his worst, they showcased Pattinson as a dedicated performer and, especially in dystopian western The Rover, a sometimes unpredictable and savage one.

And then in 2017 he put out Good Time, just to show you sometimes all you need is that one movie to turn your image around. As with the Safdie brothers’ later Uncut Gems, Good Time assaults the senses while building a central emphatic and engaging character defined by constant frantic action. Pattinson came out as the indie hero of that year, and having James Gray’s The Lost City of Z release around the same time didn’t hurt, either. A strong 2019 continued that trend with Claire Denis’ High Life and Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse.

His latest film was Netflix thriller The Devil All the Time, opposite Tom Holland. And currently a dark night falls upon Pattinson’s career as he takes on the mantle of Bruce Wayne in Matt Reeves’ The Batman, which is scheduled for an October 21, 2021 release. Before that swings into theaters, take a look at all Robert Pattinson movies, ranked by Tomatometer!

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All Twilight Saga Movies, Ranked by Tomatometer

Re-visit the series that launched Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson (not to mention vegetarian vampires) into the international spotlightlight! From 2008 and 2012, The Twilight Saga was a pop culture fixture, with the hype, secrecy, and buzz for each movie on par with the latest comic book blockbuster. The critics may not have been on board for each one, but audiences sure showed up, and now we’re looking back on everything from the original Twilight to Breaking Dawn as we rank all Twilight Saga movies by Tomatometer!

While there would’ve been a certain amusement in watching a surly, 75-year-old Harrison Ford pretending to meet Lando for the first time and winning the Millennium Falcon, Disney went with the age-correct Alden Ehrenreich for Solo: A Star Wars Story. Though a few were up-in-blasters over casting someone besides Ford in the Han Solo role, that fervor has died down now that the reviews are out claiming the movie to be moderately neat-o. And that makes it the right time to look at 24 more movie characters replaced and recast with new actors, and how that turned out on the Tomatometer.

Kate Beckinsale continues her fight against Lycans and her own faction in Underworld: Blood Wars, prompting this week’s gallery of the hottest vampires from movies and television. And because we couldn’t possibly fit all that undead sexiness in just 24 pictures the same way Beckinsale slips into a leather onesie, let us know in the comments which vampires we missed that get your blood flowing!

It’s had its share of detractors and naysayers, but Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga has become a bona fide cultural phenomenon, a popular and lucrative franchise that has raked in over $2 billion at the box office and spurred a renewed obsession with vampires and werewolves. Unfortunately for its fans, however, the series will draw to a close this weekend with the release of its final chapter, Breaking Dawn, Part 2. As such, we thought it would be a good time to hunker down and examine what it is, exactly, that makes the series such a hit. To that end, we’ve commissioned two dedicated RT staffers — one fan and one neophyte — to trade observations on The Twilight Saga. Today, we bring you part two of the discussion, which focuses on the third installment, Eclipse:

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Cat: Out of the three films, this is my favorite thus far. Maybe third time really is the charm. I’m not sure if it was the storyline or director David Slade, but this film addressed a lot of the issues I’ve had in the two previous films. There’s a lighter tone and their characters seem a little more their age by making fun of themselves. From Bella’s comment about getting married at her age signifying she’s knocked up, to Edward’s comment regarding Jake’s lack of clothing in the torso area — “Doesn’t he have a shirt?” — to the pack members picking on Jake about his obsession with Bella, a number of things added a realistic quality to the three main characters and, in turn, to the film itself.

Jeff: There’s no doubt that Eclipse is a far more enjoyable viewing experience than New Moon or Twilight. By relying more on action and humor — and broadening the focus to let the spotlight shine on some of the supporting characters — it hints at something more than the soggy melodrama that weighed down the first two films. It’d be nice if it did something more than hint, but at this point in the series, I’m happy to get anything more compelling than moping and mooning.

C: At last, her parents seem worried about how attached Bella is to Edward. Between her mother expressing her concern, to her father attempting to give her “the talk,” (which was as cringe-worthy as I imagine the opposite sex parent trying to do this with their teenager can be) they finally act and feel like parents.

J: I felt the same way. The interlude with Bella’s mother was particularly nice, especially since it’s always nice to see a little sun and hear a little normal conversation in these movies. Even if it’s never believable enough to carry any real dramatic weight, all this silly supernatural anguish starts to feel oppressive after awhile.

C: I must say the icing on the cake has to be that after all this time we saw some backstory on the wolves and how Jasper and Rosalie were turned into vampires. Even better would have been Alice’s story since she’s more central to the plot, but I’ll take what I can get with this franchise. And then who can forget the lovely Anna Kendrick being the voice of reason during her graduation speech? For a split second, Bella was considering what her long forgotten friend Jessica was saying. She may not consider Edward’s feelings, but at least someone got her to contemplate her rather rash decision to become a vampire.

J: I don’t need anyone to consider Edward’s feelings — Bella’s so obviously, profoundly out of her depth that I can’t fathom how he can even consider doing this to her — but it definitely felt good to hear Kendrick providing the voice of reason during her graduation speech, although it’s frustrating to hear the words “this isn’t the time to make hard and fast decisions,” and to know the movie means them expressly for Bella, when that point of view is given such short shrift during the rest of the series. At every other moment, she’s bafflingly insistent on joining the ranks of the undead; it’s only during this one moment that we see her briefly question the logic of, you know, becoming a vampire.

C: Eclipse isn’t without its faults. It’s baffling how two supernatural entities with centuries of hatred manage to band together for the life of one girl. What makes her so special?

J: I know I’ve been saying this all along, but this is the fatal flaw of the Twilight series for me. Bella is a vacuum at the center of everything, and Stewart’s dead eyes and flat line readings belie the lack of a true character there; it probably works better on the page because the reader can more easily project his or her own emotions onto the characters, but on the screen, it’s often just nonsensical.

C: And then there’s something called imprinting. I agree with Bella when she said: “Do I even want to know what that is?”

J: I actually didn’t mind that scene, because I thought it gave Lautner a chance to do some nice acting with his eyes instead of his biceps, and his forced admission that he hadn’t imprinted on Bella was, I thought, kind of a tacit illustration of how he’s really just a kid. He knows he can’t have what he wants — and he understands, on some level, that it isn’t even right for him — but he’s pursuing it anyway, because that’s the stubbornness of youth. In that way, he really is better for Bella — Edward is over 100 years old, but he’s often childishly jealous.

I can’t believe I just put that much thought into these characters.

C: Jake and Bella were a mess together in this film. The fact that she’s supposed to be in love with Jacob as well is really never clearly conveyed. It’s very forced by these two because that’s what the script said — it’s as if Stewart’s real-life relationship with Pattinson is in the way of her acting within this love triangle. For me, it’s clear Edward was always her choice and her only true love. I feel really bad Jacob sticks around through all the shenanigans she involves him in, and lines like “Let’s face it, I am hotter than you” simply degrade the decent character he was in New Moon.

J: That line didn’t bother me, but the “triangle” here did, because it’s constructed entirely out of narrative gimmicks and Bella proving she’s an awful, manipulative person who has no compunction about driving some poor kid to the emotional brink but lacks the courage to deal with the consequences. In a sane fictional world, after Bella said “Jacob, kiss me,” all the werewolves and vampires would have banded together to kill her.

C: Going into Breaking Dawn: Part 1, I’m intrigued by what Jane’s agenda is since she knew Victoria was creating an army all along, yet kept it from the rest of the council. Is this the Volturi’s agenda as well, or is Jane flying solo on this?

J: That’s definitely one of the more interesting questions raised by Eclipse, which means the answer probably won’t even be hinted at until the final 20 minutes of Breaking Dawn Part 1. I’m sure we’ll have to sit through 100 minutes of wedding planning first.

Written by Jeff Giles and Catherine Pricci

2010 was a year when those obnoxious “surcharges” for 3-D glasses boosted movie studios’ bottom lines, while actual attendance dropped once again. It was a year when most of what Hollywood released was either a remake, a “reboot” a “re-imagining”… or an outright rip-off. In other words, it was a banner year for only one of Tinsel Town’s best-known award shows… the one that dis-honors
Worst Achievements in Film. Voting members of The Golden Raspberry Award Foundation have sifted through the cinematic rubble of last year and selected winners for The 31st Annual RAZZIE® Awards, announcing the “honorees” in a ceremony at Hollywood’s Barnsdall Gallery Theatre at 7:30pm/PST on Saturday, February 26 – the now traditional Night Before the Oscars. See below for the full list!

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Worst Picture

The Bounty Hunter 07%

The Last Airbender 07%

Sex and the City 2 16%

Twilight Saga: Eclipse 50%

Vampires Suck 04%

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Worst Director

Jason Frieberg & Aaron Seltzer Vampires Suck 04%

Michael Patrick King Sex and the City 2 16%

M. Night Shyamalan The Last Airbender 07%

David Slade Twilight Saga: Eclipse 50%

Sylvester Stallone The Expendables 41%

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Worst Actor

Jack Black Gulliver’s Travels 21%

Gerard Butler The Bounty Hunter 07%

Ashton Kutcher Killers 11% Valentine’s Day 17%

Robert Pattinson Twilight Saga: Eclipse 50% Remember Me 28%

Taylor Lautner Twilight Saga: Eclipse 50% Valentine’s Day 17%

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Worst Actress

Jennifer Aniston The Bounty Hunter 07% The Switch 51%

Miley Cyrus The Last Song 21%

Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis Sex and the City 2 16%

Megan Fox Jonah Hex 13%

Kristen Stewart Twilight Saga: Eclipse 50%

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Worst Supporting Actor

Billy Ray Cyrus The Spy Next Door 13%

George Lopez Marmaduke 10% The Spy Next Door 13% Valentine’s Day 17%

Dev Patel The Last Airbender 07%

Jackson Rathbone Twilight Saga: Eclipse 50% The Last Airbender 07%

Rob Schneider Grown Ups 10%

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Worst Supporting Actress

Jessica Alba The Killer Inside Me 55% Machete 72% Little Fockers 10% Valentine’s Day 17%

Cher Burlesque 37%

Liza Minelli Sex and the City 2 16%

Nicola Peltz The Last Airbender 07%

Barbra Streisand Little Fockers 10%

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Worst Eye-Gouging Mis-Use of 3D	Worst Screen Couple / Worst Screen Ensemble
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore	The Bounty Hunter
Clash of the Titans	Jonah Hex
The Last Airbender	The Last Airbender
Nutcracker in 3D	Sex and the City 2
Saw 3D	Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Worst Screenplay	Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel
The Last Airbender	Clash of the Titans
Little Fockers	The Last Airbender
Sex and the City 2	Sex and the City 2
Twilight Saga: Eclipse	Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Vampires Suck	Vampires Suck

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For all of RT?s awards season coverage, check out Awards Tour here.

This week, we’ve got oodles of mystical, magical mayhem on offer in the home video department. The latest in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga hits the market, alongside a very badly reviewed spoof. Then there’s a viking actioner set during the Crusades, and two films from Disney that sort of overlap each other in story, one being a classic animated short and the other being a modern, live-action interpretation of the same. Lastly, we’ve also got a new rom-com starring Justin Long and Drew Barrymore and an action-comedy with Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. Most of these hover somewhere in middle-of-the-road territory, but there’s some genre fun to be had, so check out the choices and pick accordingly.

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Written by Ryan Fujitani and Tim Ryan

Vampires and werewolves, and a certain mortal gal in between, ruled the
Independence Day holiday frame as
The Twilight
Saga: Eclipse exploded with a massive top spot debut. Also generating
muscular results by bringing a property with a large built-in fan base to the
big screen was The
Last Airbender which counter-programmed Bella and company by appealing
to boys resulting in a strong finish in the runner-up spot despite some of the
year’s worst reviews. With
Toy Story 3 still
attracting large crowds, the overall marketplace swelled delivering spectacular
results to kick off the second half of 2010.

Summit’s crown jewel kept getting bigger.
Eclipse,
the third installment of the lucrative five-film Twilight franchise,
debuted to heated anticipation and generated a stunning $161M in ticket sales in
its first five days of release from Wednesday to Sunday, according to estimates.
The figure consisted of $92M during the week on Wednesday and Thursday and $69M
over the Friday-to-Sunday period. The weekend figure, which matched the debut of
the first Twilight pic from 2008, was deflated by the mid-week bow which
pushed the intense upfront demand to Wednesday, but the overall extended start
is truly remarkable. Summit is estimating another $20M on Monday which is a
holiday for many bringing the six-day tally to an estimated $181M which,
conveniently, would break the record for the biggest Fourth of July opening
edgiing past the $180.1M six-day score of Spider-Man 2 from 2004 when the
calendar was exactly the same. Ticket prices have risen significantly since
then, though.[rtimage]MapID=1210749&MapTypeID=2&photo=35&legacy=1[/rtimage]Still,
the PG-13 Eclipse flexed major muscles with a stellar $68.5M on Wednesday
becoming the second largest opening day in box office history trailing just the
$72.7M Friday of The Twilight Saga: New Moon from last November. Eclipse
set a new benchmark as the widest release ever playing in 4,468 locations. The
weekend average hit $15,443. Exit polls showed a broadening of the audience with
the new pic’s crowd being 65% female compared to 80% for New Moon.
Eclipse was also the first in the series to play on IMAX screens which helped
out the grosses too. That format has pulled in a remarkable $8.2M to date from
193 playdates.

Overseas, Eclipse was red hot too with an estimated $100.2M since
Wednesday from 42 territories with major markets like the UK, France, Germany,
Japan, and Korea still to come. New Moon grossed $709M worldwide and this
new saga could beat it.

M. Night Shyamalan enjoyed the best opening – and total gross – for any film in
six years with the 3D fantasy adventure
The Last Airbender
which debuted in second place with an estimated $40.7M over the
Friday-to-Sunday period. The PG-rated film based on the popular Nickelodeon
cartoon series aveaged a sturdy $12,827 from 3,169 locations and has collected
an impressive $58M in its first four days since its Thursday launch. Paramount
reported an early five-day estimate of $70M for the extended Thursday-to-Monday
debut which would put it ahead of the director’s last two films The Happening
and Lady in the Water which grossed $64.5M and $42.3M, respectively.
All three share a common trait – they were all panned by critics. Airbender,
with a reported production cost of $150M, has been met with the worst reviews of
the filmmaker’s career, but the target audience of young males came out on
opening weekend anyway for the special effects and the franchise’s brand name. A
late-in-the-game upgrade to 3D added to the ticket prices too. Despite what
should be large declines in the days and weeks ahead, market share leader
Paramount should still score its fifth $100M+ grosser of
2010.[rtimage]MapID=1213190&MapTypeID=2&photo=45&legacy=1[/rtimage]Bumped down
to number three over the holiday weekend was
Toy Story 3 which
pulled in an estimated $30.2M in its third frame. Down 49%, the Disney/Pixar
sensation watched its cume soar to an amazing $289M putting it at number 42 on
the list of all-time domestic blockbusters behind the $290M of 2005’s Harry
Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Toy Story 3 could shatter the $300M mark on
Monday after only 18 days and may still reach the $400M barrier
too.[rtimage]MapID=1196045&MapTypeID=2&photo=42&legacy=1[/rtimage]Adam Sandler
and his comedy pals landed in fourth with
Grown Ups which
grossed an estimated $18.5M, down an understandable 54%. The decline was similar
to the 52% fall the funnyman’s 1999 hit Big Daddy suffered in its second
weekend when Independence Day also fell on a Sunday. Grown Ups could be
headed for a final tally in the neighborhood of $140M proving that Sandler still
has what paying audiences want.[rtimage]MapID=1223577&MapTypeID=2&photo=27&legacy=1[/rtimage]On
the other hand, Tom Cruise is learning that moviegoers are losing interest in
him as his latest entry
Knight and Day
is turning into one of the lowest-grossing action films of his career. The Fox
release dropped 49% to an estimated $10.2M this weekend and lifted its 12-day
sum to only $45.5M. Knight is on course to end its run in the same
vicinity as Cruise’s 1990 summer action pic Days of Thunder which made
$82.7M at a time when the average movie ticket price was just $4.23.

80s remakes followed as
The Karate Kid
took in an estimated $8M in sixth while the less successful
The A-Team collected
an estimated $3M in seventh place. Sony’s Jaden Smith pic dropped 49% and has
taken in a stellar $151.5M to date and Fox’s action title upped its total to
$69.1M after declining by 51%.

Universal’s hit comedy
Get Him
to the Greek tumbled 62% to an estimated $1.2M raising its cume to
$57.4M. Losing even more 3D screens,
Shrek Forever After
crashed 74% to an estimated $799,000 and a $232.2M total.[rtimage]MapID=1212410&MapTypeID=2&photo=51&legacy=1[/rtimage]Indie
hit Cyrus was close
behind and jumped into the top ten in tenth place with an estimated $770,000
from only 77 theaters for a strong $10,000 average. Expanding in its third frame
from 17 locations, the Fox Searchlight release has grossed $1.5M and will
continue to invade more cities in July.

The top ten films grossed an estimated $182.3M which was up19% from last year
when Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen stayed in the top spot with
$42.3M; and up 22% from 2008 when Hancock debuted at number one with
$62.6M.

Author: Gitesh Pandya, Box Office Guru!