Timothée Chalamet has grow to be a really massive deal during the last decade or so. With two Academy Award nominations and an ever-expanding checklist of wonderful films underneath his belt, the actor has flaunted his expertise in an unlimited array of roles that vary from enjoying Bob Dylan in “A Full Unknown” (2024) to starring as Paul Atreides in Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” films and following Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp in portraying eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka in “Wonka” (2023). That is loads, particularly from a younger actor who appears destined to show in nice roles for a lot of a long time to come back.
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Any one in every of Chalamet’s finest films is an effective way for a film fan to spend a few hours glued to their seat. Nonetheless, few prolific actors can preserve an ideal win report all through their profession, and even one as wildly profitable as Chalamet has a number of lower than beloved movies in his CV. Here is a have a look at 5 of his worst films, in accordance with Rotten Tomatoes.
5. A Wet Day in New York (2019)
As a latter-day Woody Allen film, “A Wet Day in New York” (2019) can not help however be in comparison with a number of the filmmaker’s most interesting beats. Even with out the once-celebrated Allen’s popularity — tarnished by allegations of sexual abuse of his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow – coming in play, it will probably safely be mentioned that the movie would not minimize it.
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“A Wet Day in New York” obtained shelved by Amazon in 2018 after the accusations resurfaced with the #MeToo motion, and solely obtained a restricted U.S. theatrical launch in 2020 after already making the rounds in different elements of the world. However once more, even discounting its troubled historical past, that is comprehensible. “A Wet Day in New York” comes throughout like warmed-up leftovers of Allen’s finest New York Metropolis-themed work. This, nonetheless, cannot be blamed on Timothée Chalamet, who leads the love triangle story as a considerably optimistically-cast Allen protagonist stand-in, full with the requisite awkwardness and a nifty “Annie Corridor”-style tweed jacket.
Allen’s films are typically well-cast, and with names like Chalamet, Elle Fanning, Selena Gomez, Diego Luna, and Jude Regulation, “A Wet Day in New York” isn’t any exception. Nonetheless, regardless of the expertise concerned, the film’s type far overshadows its substance, which leaves it with a Tomatometer score of simply 47%.
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4. One & Two (2015)
“One & Two” (2015) was Timothée Chalamet’s first film after his look as younger Tom Cooper in Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar” (2014). Whereas he has a far larger function on this fantasy thriller (which, by the way, was the primary and, to this point, solely characteristic movie directed and written by “The Inexperienced Knight” and “Moon Knight” cinematographer Andrew Droz Palermo), the film did not precisely make the same influence.
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“One & Two” revolves round Chalamet and Kiernan Shipka. The 2 play Zac and Eva, two siblings with the mysterious capability to teleport who dwell in a fenced farm compound with their merciless father (Grant Bowler) and ailing mom (Elizabeth Reaser). Ethereal and ominous, “One & Two” has loads of mysteries and some surprises up its sleeve. Sadly, many critics felt that the film’s script merely cannot match its ambiance, and that the story runs out of steam.
The indie movie’s Tomatometer rating of 47% implies that it has the identical essential consensus as “A Wet Day in New York.” Nonetheless, “One & Two” has a significantly decrease viewers Popcornmeter score (35%, whereas “A Wet Day in New York” has 56%), so total, the movie is additional down the disappointing finish of the Chalamet film spectrum.
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3. Scorching Summer season Nights (2017)
2017 is simple to pinpoint as Timothée Chalamet’s massive breakthrough 12 months due to his two nuanced takes on the “younger insurgent” archetype: his Oscar-nominated flip as Elio in “Name Me by Your Title” and Kyle Scheible in “Woman Chicken.” Due to the huge appreciation these films earned the younger star, it may be simple to overlook that two different Chalamet films got here out that 12 months. Certainly one of them is “Hostiles,” the Scott Cooper-directed Christian Bale Western wherein Chalamet seems as a younger personal serving underneath Bale’s Captain Blocker and is, admittedly, considerably misplaced within the well-liked movie’s solid (which incorporates of us like Rosamund Pike, Wes Studi, Stephen Lang, and Jesse Plemons). The opposite is “Scorching Summer season Nights,” which Rotten Tomatoes ranks as Chalamet’s third-worst film.
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Chalamet filmed writer-director Elijah Bynum’s “Scorching Summer season Nights” earlier than his two better-known 2017 movies, however it premiered after them, which implies that its 46% Tomatometer score ended up barely blemishing his in any other case stellar 12 months. The film is a reasonably easy “Nineteen Nineties children get in approach too over their heads” caper the place Chalamet’s younger Daniel is caught spending his summer season in Cape Cod, befriends Hunter (Alex Roe), and turns into entangled in native drug commerce. It is not a dangerous film, per se — simply very, very by the numbers.
If a Chalamet fan is working out of films to look at, although, the critiques should not essentially be a deterrent. The younger actor is doing a superb job right here, and understanding how excessive his star has risen since “Scorching Summer season Nights” premiered, it might be a superb whereas earlier than the audiences have an opportunity to take pleasure in him in a film as fortunately easy as this.
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2. The Adderall Diaries (2015)
In writer-director Pamela Romanowsky’s “The Adderall Diaries” (2015), Timothée Chalamet performs the youthful model of James Franco’s troubled protagonist Stephen Elliott. Based mostly on a real crime-style memoir written by the true life Elliott, the 2015 drama is a narrative a few author whose latest e book undertaking — a biography of a profitable programmer named Hans Reiser (Christian Slater) — turns into a real crime undertaking when Reiser is suspected of getting murdered his spouse (who abruptly disappeared). As Reiser’s homicide trial approaches, Stephen has to take care of his copious private points, together with the fallout of his father (Ed Harris) returning in his life to problem the model of their household historical past Stephen describes in his personal memoir.
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It is the type of hazy, twisty, multi-layered thriller story that has all of the makings of a wonderful A24 mindbender. Sadly, “The Adderall Diaries” ended up falling in need of its lofty aspirations, and has a Tomatometer score of solely 26%. A number of critics have identified that the film lacks cohesion and fails to captivate the viewer, resulting in an underwhelming expertise.
1. Love the Coopers (2015)
So, yeah, 2015 was not a superb 12 months for Timothée Chalamet. His third and simply lowest-rated entry on this checklist is “Love the Coopers,” which additionally occurs to be the third and ultimate Chalamet film that premiered in what’s simply the worst 12 months in his post-“Interstellar” profession.
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In Chalamet’s protection, “Love the Coopers” may be very a lot not a marquee Timothée Chalamet expertise. He solely seems within the comparatively small function as Charlie, a younger member of the eponymous Cooper household. Penned by Steven Rogers and directed by Jessie Nelson, “Love the Coopers” is a Christmas movie about a big and contentious household that gathers collectively for the vacations in a predictably chaotic vogue.
The film options an all-star solid that features actors like John Goodman, Diane Keaton, Marisa Tomei, Anthony Mackie, and Olivia Wilde, however the entire is sort of a bit lower than the sum of its elements. “Love the Coopers” was extensively panned by critics and has a dismal 18% Tomatometer rating. This makes it Chalamet’s least-appreciated movie by far, at the very least so far as Rotten Tomatoes is worried. Nonetheless, followers of the actor may wish to try his extraordinarily relatable efficiency as a sullen, nervous teen making an attempt to impress a woman.
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