Only God Forgives
Action/Drama | USA | Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
In 2011, Nicolas Winding Refn won the Best Director prize at Cannes for Drive 79. While his receiving of that award was somewhat divisive, it paled in comparison to the wide range of reactions to his latest film, a Thailand-set revenge drama starring Ryan Gosling and Kristen Scott Thomas that was
one of the most anticipated and most disappointing films of this year's festival. Mike D’Angelo of The A.V. Club, a fan of Drive, sees in Only God Forgives “a movie that amplifies the most off-putting aspects of [Refn's] earlier work: the gratuitous sadism, the canned portentousness, the sub-Lynchian pools of red light, the nihilistic emptiness,” and goes as far as concluding that it's “
the worst movie I’ve seen this year, by a good margin; it does have the courage of its moronic convictions, though, and that does count for something. Better striking garbage like this than tasteful mediocrities.” Other detractors include Time Out London (“A dread-filled electronic score, neon, zombie-like performances and violent scenes of amputation – all fail to distract from the emptiness and sheer silliness.”) and Variety (“As hyper-aggressive revenge fantasies go, it’s curious to see one so devoid of feeling.”). On the opposite side of the critical spectrum is Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian, who gives the film a five-star rating and deems it “ultraviolent, creepy and scary, an enriched-uranium cake of pulp, with a neon sheen,” while adding, “Every scene, every frame, is executed with pure formal brilliance.” Somewhere in the middle are David Rooney of THR who, like most others, finds “way more style than subtext,” and Eric Kohn at Indiewire, who believes it’s “too bogged down by rudimentary style gags to leave room for anything else.” Final word goes to Robbie Collin of The Telegraph, who calls it “a beautiful disaster.” Judge for yourself when Refn's film arrives in American theaters on July 19th.
http://www.metacritic.com/feature/2013-cannes-film-festival-reviews-and-recap
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Action/Drama | USA | Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
In 2011, Nicolas Winding Refn won the Best Director prize at Cannes for Drive 79. While his receiving of that award was somewhat divisive, it paled in comparison to the wide range of reactions to his latest film, a Thailand-set revenge drama starring Ryan Gosling and Kristen Scott Thomas that was one of the most anticipated and most disappointing films of this year's festival. Mike D’Angelo of The A.V. Club, a fan of Drive, sees in Only God Forgives “a movie that amplifies the most off-putting aspects of [Refn's] earlier work: the gratuitous sadism, the canned portentousness, the sub-Lynchian pools of red light, the nihilistic emptiness,” and goes as far as concluding that it's “the worst movie I’ve seen this year, by a good margin; it does have the courage of its moronic convictions, though, and that does count for something. Better striking garbage like this than tasteful mediocrities.” Other detractors include Time Out London (“A dread-filled electronic score, neon, zombie-like performances and violent scenes of amputation – all fail to distract from the emptiness and sheer silliness.”) and Variety (“As hyper-aggressive revenge fantasies go, it’s curious to see one so devoid of feeling.”). On the opposite side of the critical spectrum is Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian, who gives the film a five-star rating and deems it “ultraviolent, creepy and scary, an enriched-uranium cake of pulp, with a neon sheen,” while adding, “Every scene, every frame, is executed with pure formal brilliance.” Somewhere in the middle are David Rooney of THR who, like most others, finds “way more style than subtext,” and Eric Kohn at Indiewire, who believes it’s “too bogged down by rudimentary style gags to leave room for anything else.” Final word goes to Robbie Collin of The Telegraph, who calls it “a beautiful disaster.” Judge for yourself when Refn's film arrives in American theaters on July 19th.
http://www.metacritic.com/feature/2013-cannes-film-festival-reviews-and-recap