Comments on: Sundance: Guantanamo Bay Drama ‘Camp X-Ray’ May Not Always Work, But Kristen Stewart Shines In First Reviews

By: MI

MI — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:18:29 +0000

Did this movie got distributor?How her underage fans are going to see it?

By: arcticredriver

arcticredriver — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:18:29 +0000

I am looking forward to seeing this film myself — but I strongly suspect many of the reviewers' criticisms are based more in the reviewers' misconcpetions about Guantanamo than in flaws in the film.

Many Americans — including movie reviewers — are unable to understand that over half of the Guantanamo captives were completely innocent civilian bystanders. Almost all the remainder of the men, while technically combatants, had zero meaningful association with terrorism. This explain why so many reviewers gave 0 dark 30 a positive review.

By: Monco

Monco — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:18:29 +0000

I don't have anything against Kristen Stewart. But I have a feeling that maybe, in this movie's scenario all these publications are purposely judging her performance sans much strictness as compared to any other indie movie they usually would.

By: Bella's in the army

Bella's in the army — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:18:28 +0000

âCamp X-Ray needs more depth and less Kristen Stewart.â

âIt is impossible to believe that Stewartâs character, at least as portrayed by the actress, has gone through any kind of military training.â â Filmschoolrejects

By: lulu

lulu — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:18:28 +0000

Kristen Stewart is a darn good actress and takes roles that these celebrated celebrity actresses are to chicken to take. Jennifer Lawrence is an example of this where Kristen was brave enough to take the role in Equals which JenLaw admitted was a greatb role but said she didn't think she could do it. Now that's the difference between a celebrity actress and a real actress.

Kristen will take that chance. Jennifer got nominated for an Oscar playing the same kind of woman onscreen she did last year… feisty with issues. I can't believe people are falling for it.

I'm proud of the path Stewart is taking. She's worked with DeNiro, Bruce Dern, Sean Penn, Jodie Foster, Gandolfini etc… The range of A-list award-winning and legendary actors she's worked with is amazing and more than JenLaws.

She's an actor's actor. She's not in it to smile and crack jokes on camera. What her parents have to do with anything is beyond me because her mom didn't want her in the business. Even Foster believed she didn't want to act and Kristen is the one who said this is what she wanted to do.

Critics place pressure on her that they give no other actress all because they hated Twilight. May I remind you all that Twilight is an indie film. It a ready made blockbuster like Potter and the Hunger Games. Plus the main audience were females who made it into a blockbuster.

Critics need to get over Twilight because Stewart is a Hellboy an actress and all anyone has to do is read and watch what her co-stars have to say about her. She has their respect and that's what matters.

By: Uninspired

Uninspired — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:18:28 +0000

"Kristen Stewart's performance is dead in the water, the basic and uninspired juxtaposition between the two leads fails to work as some dramatic commentary and feels amateur, and the eventually uncomfortable focus on the emotional trials of Cole (over Ali) comes across as tone-deaf."

Critic Kate Erbland after seeing Camp X-Ray.

By: Bradley

Bradley — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:18:28 +0000

EW didn't think much of her performance:

âThe reason she doesnât fit in with them isnât that sheâs just about the only woman. Itâs that they really seem like soldiers, and she seems likeâ¦Kristen Stewart trapped in Guantanamo Bay.â â Owen Gleiberman with Entertainment Weekly.

By: Carpetbagger

Carpetbagger — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:18:28 +0000

By Carpetbagger for the NY Times:
Enjoy this nice piece âCamp X-Ray,â starring the petite Kristen Stewart as a GuantÃ¡namo Bay prison guard, won raves for its script and for Peyman Moaadi as a manipulative inmate. But some film executives soured when it came to the scowly Ms. Stewart.

(âDoes this base have any acting classes?â the chief of one major film company loudly whispered to a colleague during one of her scenes.)

By: m

Fri, 13 May 2016 08:18:28 +0000

kristen is a great actress she had a bad rep for twilight she was horrible in it but it wasn't her fault!

By: @Z.

@Z. — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:18:28 +0000

Who do you think her parents are?? Meryl Streep and Steven Spielberg? She is way more successful than either of them; her dad is a stage manager and her mom is a script supervisor with one bomb of a tiny film as a director. Why on earth would critics decide to go easy on her now after trashing her work for years in Twilight? I know it may be hard for you to swallow, but she has generally been well received in her indie movies, even if they were seen by few. This is no exception and critics from the likes of THR, Variety, LA Times, etc. are giving her lots of praise here. Deal with it and don't see it if you are that closed-minded.