10 Great Movie Performances (No One Ever Talks About)

As much as many had an intense knee-jerk reaction to Robert Pattinson's casting as Batman, the actor has won himself a tremendous amount of goodwill in recent years with terrific performances in the likes of Good Time, High Life, The Lighthouse, and The Devil All the Time.

But even in the midst of his years as part of the Twilight franchise, Pattinson proved himself incredibly talented, yet many weren't ready to hear it.

In the case of David Cronenberg's 2012 dramatic thriller Cosmopolis, you can at least understand why so many people slept on it - the film is incredibly challenging with its dense dialogue, "random" asides, and generally inaccessible filmmaking style.

But no matter what you make of the film entire, Pattinson's performance as self-destructive billionaire Eric Packer is brilliantly calibrated to make lurid sense of author Don DeLillo's knowingly verbose, stream-of-consciousness dialogue.

It confirmed Pattinson was a "serious" actor years before most of the world actually caught onto this fact, many instead dismissing it out of hand as "the Twilight guy" playing dress-up.

Unsurprisingly Pattinson received little awards attention for his turn, but if you've become enamoured by his more recent work, you absolutely need to pay this 2012 cult gem a visit.