Only God Forgives

3.50
    Only God Forgives
    2013

    Synopsis

    Julian, who runs a Thai boxing club as a front organization for his family's drug smuggling operation, is forced by his mother Crystal to find and kill the individual responsible for his brother's recent death.

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    Cast

    • Ryan GoslingJulian
    • Kristin Scott ThomasCrystal
    • Vithaya PansringarmChang
    • Rhatha PhongamMai
    • Gordon BrownGordon
    • Tom BurkeBilly
    • Byron GibsonByron
    • Sahajak BoonthanakitKim
    • Charlie RuedpokanonDaeng
    • Wannisa PeungpaKanita

    Recommendations

    • 100

      The Guardian

      Only God Forgives will, understandably, have people running for the exits, and running for the hills. It is very violent, but Winding Refn's bizarre infernal creation, an entire created world of fear, really is gripping. Every scene, every frame, is executed with pure formal brilliance.
    • 75

      The Playlist

      Refn has consistently delivered films that have subverted our expectations, and has proven himself a master at stylistic self-reinvention, but this feels like the first time he’s gone back to any particular well.
    • 60

      The Telegraph

      Only God Forgives is the spectacle of a brilliant young director spinning out in style. It’s a beautiful disaster.
    • 60

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Only God Forgives is a hypnotic fugue on themes of violence and retribution, drenched in corrosive reds.
    • 50

      IndieWire

      The movie is like one thin satiric lark inexplicably slowed down to the point of lethargy.
    • 50

      Film.com

      There’s no way to overstate the gorgeous look of this film, but the mannered dialogue and deliberateness of pace becomes less of an homage to Asian revenge films than a parody.
    • 40

      The New Yorker

      However mystifying, or downright boring, you find the result, rest assured that the Refn faithful will swoon. Peace be with them.
    • 30

      Variety

      The wallpaper emotes more than Ryan Gosling does in Only God Forgives, an exercise in supreme style and minimal substance.

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