Gosling ... is brilliant -- and truly frightening -- in this career-making role.
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10/21/02
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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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10/05/02
...a movie about the nature of faith and the mystery of existence — and the thin, transitory line between love and hate.
10/01/02
Gosling provides an amazing performance that dwarfs everything else in the film.
09/05/02
In this day of tidy trick endings, it's a pleasure to watch a film in which the thorny issues only get thornier.
08/20/02
An important movie, a reminder of the power of film to move us and to make us examine our values.
08/16/02
Top CriticAn astonishingly well-wrought, blazingly intelligent, punch-in-the-stomach of a movie.
08/16/02
[Gosling's] combination of explosive physical energy and convincing intelligence helps create a complex, unpredictable character.
08/16/02
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08/12/02
The film is no fun, but Bean handles it with an unflinching courage that is matched by Gosling's seething performance.
07/22/02
One of the year's most thought-provoking, hard-hitting films, gutsily opening up a subject rarely done with this kind of all-out chutzpah.
07/20/02
Top CriticIt's too harsh to work as a piece of storytelling, but as an intellectual exercise -- an unpleasant debate that's been given the drive of a narrative and that's been acted out -- The Believer is nothing less than a provocative piece of work.
07/19/02
As played by Ryan Gosling, Danny is a frighteningly fascinating contradiction.
07/15/02
An eccentric, difficult film, posing questions it can't answer, expecting viewers to be satisfied -- nay, fulfilled -- by a conflict with no resolution.
07/13/02
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07/13/02
A somewhat crudely constructed but gripping, questing look at a person so racked with self-loathing, he becomes an enemy to his own race.
07/12/02
Despite its sometimes rough production values and oversimplification of a complex issue, it bristles with intelligence.
07/11/02
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07/09/02
Like a pack of dynamite sticks, built for controversy. The film is explosive, but a few of those sticks are wet.
06/28/02
A deep and extraordinary film that isn't afraid to look evil in the face -- or, for that matter, to acknowledge that evil can be more complicated and even attractive than we'd want to admit.
06/28/02
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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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