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The Believer (2002)
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Reviews Counted:85
Fresh:69
Rotten:16
Average Rating:7.3/10
Consensus: Gosling commands the screen with a raw, electrifying performance.
Theatrical Release:May 17, 2002 Limited
Box Office: $157,487
Synopsis: Raised Jewish, Danny (Ryan Gosling) now runs with an anti-Semitic skinhead gang in Queens. Attending a meeting held by prominent self-proclaimed fascist Curtis Zampf (Billy Zane), Danny is noticed... [More]
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Summer Phoenix, Billy Zane, Theresa Russell
Director: Henry Bean
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Reviews for The Believer
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The underlying premise of The Believer is simple and understandable to any one of us who have grown indifferent to many of the teachings we accepted with such naiveté, such open hopeful hearts throughout our early education. Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
Loosely based on Daniel Burros (a Nazi who killed himself when the NY Times revealed his Jewishness), the film offers a stimulating meditation on the inescapable impact of religion and burden of history on personal identities. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Em uma performance absolutamente brilhante, o jovem Ryan Gosling cria um personagem que, mesmo moralmente desprezível, fascina por seu conflito interior.
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The underdevloped Believer has at its core a performance of searing and genuine intensity, yet it also regrettably handles the psychological turmoil of its antagonistic protagonist with kid gloves. Full Review |
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Gosling projects a feral intelligence that is riveting... Full Review |
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C+ |
It made for an emotionally hair-pulling ride, without benefit of much intellectual give and take. Full Review |
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4/5 |
An uncomfortable experience, but one as brave and challenging as you could possibly expect these days from American cinema. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
The Believer is packed to the gills with various speeches and lectures and theological bantering. Much of it ends with someone getting a baseball bat to the head. Full Review |
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this polarizing film deserves a wider audience Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Artful, effective and socially redeeming stuff. Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
You just get the sense that what you're seeing is a very personal struggle in what will probably be one of the most powerful films of the year. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Like Edward Norton in American History X, Ryan Gosling (Murder By Numbers) delivers a magnetic performance. Full Review |
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The performances all do justice to this material. Full Review |
CommentLatest News for The Believer
June 28, 2007:
Ryan Gosling Signs On to Peter Jackson's "Lovely Bones"
The 27-year-old actor will be playing the husband to 36-year-old Rachel Weisz. They'll be playing the parents of a (dead) 14-year-old girl in the Peter Jackson pic. More...
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