- Studio: Focus Features
- Release Date: Mar 29, 2013
- Starring: Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes, Ryan Gosling
- Summary: A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.
- Director: Derek Cianfrance
- Genre(s): Drama, Crime
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 29 out of 42
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Mixed: 13 out of 42
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Negative: 0 out of 42
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100The music, the cinematography, the acting choices, the daring plot leaps — not a single element is timid or safe...The Place Beyond the Pines earns every second of its 140-minute running time.
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Apr 10, 201389The film is so velvety textured and dreamy, I would’ve stuck around for more. That is Cianfrance’s special talent.
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83Cianfrance is the real deal, and anyone who can persuade talented Hollywood stars to enact nonironic, intelligent, ambitious drama should be encouraged, especially when the result is something like this.
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70Cianfrance generally shows again that he knows how to build immersive characterizations with his actors. And while this sorrowful triptych is uneven and perhaps overly ambitious, the director displays a cool mastery of atmospherics and tone.
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70The Place Beyond the Pines can’t be said to be anyone’s movie but Cianfrance’s. Structured as a triptych, the movie is novelistic, earnest and somewhat exhausting — an ambitious effort that tries to be many things. And it is definitely something: a sprawling, engaging study in fathers, sons and sins.
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60The Place Beyond the Pines is a much bigger canvas, and scene by scene it can be riveting...But the disparate pieces never quite jell; the movie is all trees and no forest.
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Mar 15, 201350The film never reaches a climax because it's always in one, distilling the lives of its characters to their tensest moments.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 58 out of 70
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Mixed: 5 out of 70
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Negative: 7 out of 70
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Apr 12, 201310
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Jul 23, 20139This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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May 15, 20137
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