Tag Archives: Ryan Gosling

Review: Blue Valentine: You Always Hurt the One You Love

This review originally appeared on Capital New York. Blue Valentine was notorious long before it actually opened, thanks to a ratings controversy: The film was threatened with an NC-17 rating due to a couple of frank sexual scenes. Harvey Weinstein, … Continue reading

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Under-Rated Movies #18: Murder by Numbers (2002); Dir. Barbet Schroeder

So under-rated as to be almost completely invisible, and never mentioned in this past Oscar season, when Sandra Bullock was so much discussed – Murder by Numbers has some truly stupid elements, a boring title, and a terrible ending (badly … Continue reading

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Re-Cut Trailer: A Baffling Choice

About 2 weeks ago, I noticed ads on television for a new film called Stay. It is obviously a thriller of some kind – the ads showed an increasingly desperate Ryan Gosling (he also probably should be on my list … Continue reading

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