Cannes 2012: Critics Scorecard

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Easily one of the more buzzed-about titles in contention this year, David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis has pundits excited for both the Canadian auteur's apparent return to his old style and the fact that it stars Twilight pin-up Robert Pattinson in the role to really break him out of that franchise. And the early word is extremely divided -- which, given how much some people loathed, say, Videodrome at the time, can only be a good thing. Pattinson gets praised for his performance, but responses to the movie are running from Hitfix's rave of "defiantly unlovable" (great) to The Guardian's "agonizingly self-conscious and meagre" (hmmm). A Palme d'Or for Cronemberg is unlikely -- but stranger things have happened.

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