The Place Beyond the Pines

4.00
    The Place Beyond the Pines
    2013

    Synopsis

    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.

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    Cast

    • Ryan GoslingLuke Glanton
    • Eva MendesRomina Gutierrez
    • Bradley CooperAvery Cross
    • Rose ByrneJennifer Cross
    • Ray LiottaPeter Deluca
    • Dane DeHaanJason Kancam
    • Emory CohenAJ Cross
    • Mahershala AliKofi Kancam
    • Bruce GreenwoodBill Killcullen
    • Ben MendelsohnRobin Van Der Hook

    Recommendations

    • 100

      The Playlist

      A brilliant, towering picture, The Place Beyond The Pines is a cinematic accomplishment of extraordinary grace and insight.
    • 91

      IndieWire

      That the movie succeeds both as a high-stakes crime thriller as well as a far quieter and empathetic study of angry, solitary men proves that Cianfrance has a penchant for bold storytelling and an eye for performances to carry it through.
    • 75

      Film.com

      There is true beauty in the despair that pervades The Place Beyond the Pines, a film plotted out in triptych, a treatise on the moral compromises we all make to protect and provide for our loved ones.
    • 70

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Cianfrance 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.
    • 60

      The Guardian

      The Place Beyond the Pines is ambitious and epic, perhaps to a fault.
    • 50

      Slant Magazine

      The film never reaches a climax because it's always in one, distilling the lives of its characters to their tensest moments.
    • 50

      Variety

      Two half-stories about fathers and sons on opposite sides of the law do not a full movie make in The Place Beyond the Pines, the overlong and under-conceived reunion between “Blue Valentine” director Derek Cianfrance and lookalike star Ryan Gosling.
    • 50

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      The segments are essentially monodramas, so sketchily written that the big moments feel less like recognizable human behavior than recognizable screenwriter overreaching.

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