When you consider that old-fashioned tearjerkers are an endangered species in Hollywood, a movie like The Notebook can be embraced without apology. Yes, it's syrupy sweet and clogged with clichés, and one can only marvel at the irony of Nick Cassavetes directing a weeper that his late father John--whose own films were devoid of saccharine sentiment--would have sneered at. Still, this ...
Manufacturer: Entertainment in VideoStarring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena RowlandsDirected By: Nick Cassavetes
Sir Anthony Hopkins trots out another psycho you'll hate to love in Fracture, a by-the-numbers legal thriller that's redeemed by electric performances from its two leads. Hopkins is on fine accent-bending, twinkle-eyed form as aeronautics engineer Ted Crawford, who has devised the perfect way to bump off his cheating wife. Ryan Gosling positively crackles as Willy Beachum, the cocky public ...
Manufacturer: Entertainment in VideoStarring: Anthony Hopkins, David Strathairn, Ryan Gosling, Billy Burke, Rosamund PikeDirected By: Gregory Hoblit
Sometimes people are attracted to each other because of their differences. When there's a nebulous attraction between a teacher and a young teenage child--as in the superb Half Nelson--the relationship has all the makings of confused disaster. Though there are a few uncomfortable moments when it's not obvious whether Dan (Ryan Gosling) and Drey (Shareeka Epps) might cross the line, the ...
Manufacturer: Axiom Films International LtdStarring: Shareeka Epps, Tina Holmes, Anthony Mackie, Ryan Gosling, Nicole ViciusDirected By: Ryan Fleck
Manufacturer: MGMStarring: Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider, R.D. Reid, Kelli GarnerDirected By: Craig Gillespie
With The Believer, his first film as director, screenwriter Henry Bean wastes no time in going for the jugular. In the opening scene a timid Yeshiva student is chased off a New York subway train, racially abused and savagely beaten up by a ranting skinhead, and from then on in the level of hatred and violence rarely abates. But the passion that fuels the film is as much psychological as ...
Manufacturer: Pathe DistributionStarring: Ryan Gosling, Summer Phoenix, Peter Meadows, Garret Dillahunt, Kris EiversDirected By: Henry Bean
Murder by Numbers is a satisfying, if hardly earth-shattering, addition to Sandy Bullock's CV and the thriller genre in general. While director Barbet Schroeder ratcheted up the tension in his Single White Female, here the action coasts along at a more sedate pace with a tale of teenage murderers that's loosely based on a real incident. (The same incident was the basis for two other ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Sandra Bullock, Ben Chaplin, Ryan Gosling, Michael Pitt, Agnes BrucknerDirected By: Barbet Schroeder
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home EntertainmentStarring: Ewan McGregor, Noah Bean, Michael Devine, Michael Gaston, Michael GrayDirected By: Marc Forster
Manufacturer: Momentum PicturesStarring: Don Cheadle, Ryan Gosling, Chris Klein, Jena Malone, Lena OlinDirected By: Matthew Ryan Hoge
Manufacturer: New Line Home VideoStarring: Gena Rowlands, James Garner, Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Joan AllenDirected By: Nick Cassavetes
Manufacturer: New Line Home VideoStarring: Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn, Rosamund Pike, Embeth DavidtzDirected By: Gregory Hoblit
