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Kristen Stewart’s 20 best performances – ranked!

20. Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)

Kristen Stewart will make a brilliant Evil Queen one day, but in this CGI-heavy retelling of the oft-filmed fairytale she seems miscast as the passive Snow White. Charlize Theron gets all the witchy fun as her wicked stepmother, while Chris Hemsworth hovers handsomely.

19. American Ultra (2015)

Stewart gives a boring girlfriend role more depth than it deserves in this smarmy action comedy about a charmless small-town stoner (Jesse Eisenberg) who, to his surprise, finds he is a sleeper agent with mad killing skills. The Long Kiss Goodnight this is not.

18. Café Society (2016)

Golden Age Hollywood meets Bronx hoodlums as Stewart and Eisenberg hook up again in Woody Allen’s bittersweet romance. It feels

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