Adventureland is also the first of her collaborations with Jesse Eisenberg, which you already know is a pairing we stan. When she has surprising moments of anger, they really hit, like when she explodes at her stepmother. Kristen’s character is made too apologetic in the end, but she makes you feel what she’s feeling and you buy it - hook, line and sinker. And it's the nature of the Jack Kerouac adaptation - largely highlighting the selfishness of the Beat generation - that we are simply not invited to see her as a fully-rounded individual, except to see that she is trapped. Here, Kristen’s character, Marylou, skirts a line between liberated and boxed in. It’s no wonder she didn’t return for the sequel! 27. Sure, we can understand the reasoning, as someone befitting the grittier take on this material, but there remains something off about her as Snow White - try as she might to communicate both the innocence of the character and the sudden shift to being a full-on warrior. One of the few cases where Kristen genuinely seems miscast. She’s forced to say some stupid, outdated shit about modern society and technology, though, and even she can’t sell it. The actress convincingly plays a troubled graduate student dealing with self-harm and existential dread in this Crash-esque melodrama.
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But that’s fine, it’s all she’s asked to do. She seems to be fulfilling those archetypes capably, but without subversion. In a way, Kristen as the older sister in this Jumanji spin-off feels like an amalgamation of her performances up until this point. Kristen doesn’t really seem like she wants to be in The Messengers, which is the kind of thing people say about her generally, but in this case seems to be true.
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Her character finally comes into focus towards the end, but this movie is an absolute dismal mess and there’s nothing she can do to save it. Horse girl again? Her and the late Anton Yelchin cover each other in body paint and make out. Overall though, this is a terribly unremarkable role in an equally unremarkable movie, and we won’t blame you if you instantly forget everything that happens in it. Kristen has a small role in this limp satire as Robert De Niro’s daughter, with a couple of grief-heavy scenes. Even at the age of 13, she just doesn’t really make sense as a horse girl, and actually has a real-life fear of horses! 34. In this middling thriller, Kristen seems miscast as the daughter of a family moving from New York to the country. This is every Kristen Stewart performance, ranked.