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The Believer Review

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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 4.0
    75

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Generally favorable reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 70

    out of 100

    The New York Times

    This willfully provocative film portrait offers lots of raging, vulgarity and shock but little insight into the character's psychopathology.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

    Admirably ambitious and utterly unsparing, but as credible as the arc of Danny's odyssey is in itself, the all-important need to evoke a profound sense of the enigmatic and paradoxical in relation to Danny's fate has eluded Bean.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Variety Todd McCarthy

    Those who see it at fests, and in carefully tailored specialized release, will be struck by the adroitness with which it addresses touchy issues, as well as by the outstanding performance of Ryan Gosling in the difficult leading role.

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  • 75

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    The film's anti-Semitism is articulate but wrong, and the conflict between what the hero says and what he believes (or does not want to believe) is at the very center of the story.

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  • 88

    out of 100

    Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

    One of the year's most thought-provoking, hard-hitting films, gutsily opening up a subject rarely done with this kind of all-out chutzpah.

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  • 90

    out of 100

    Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

    What it's about is also what it requires for proper appreciation -- the ability of the human mind to hold, and even cherish, diametrically opposite thoughts.

  • 91

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Bean's commitment to serious theological examination is exciting, Gosling's performance is riveting, and this fiery and imperfect feature shines as a demonstration of independent filmmaking at its most uncompromising.

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