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Only God Forgives
In Thailand, a drug trafficker's (Ryan Gosling) icy mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) sends him on a mission to avenge his older brother, who was killed for beating an underage prostitute to death.
12 November 1980, London, Ontario, Canada
19 May 1983, Bangkok, Thailand
30 June 1981, Kent, England, UK
30 April 1974, Nieuwegein, Utrecht, Netherlands
April 15, 2016
That the pacing is glacial hardly matters - at least for the first hour or so - because Larry Smith's cinematography is so breathtaking.
April 08, 2014
Even as their shadows fall across these walls, the characters are not supermen; they're humans reduced to chiaroscuro. Characterization is even more minimal.
June 19, 2016
'Only God Forgives' is a mess, an overly stylized and brutally violent mood piece with something to alienate everyone. It's also absolutely worth seeing.
April 17, 2015
Only God Forgives is an extremely misunderstood film.
July 22, 2013
Refn's nerve is admirable, even if his film often borders on unwatchable.
May 11, 2016
That it is superficial is a given. It's clear that Refn's plan is to drug us into transcendence, into the eerie plains of his Norse parable Valhalla Rising. He wants this film to levitate, but it doesn't.
August 01, 2013
Ryan Gosling and his "Drive" director, Nicolas Winding Refn, sail into the heart of darkness and emerge with a trinket of crackpot porno kitsch.
July 19, 2013
The most objectionable thing about Only God Forgives isn't that it's shocking or immoral, but that it's so finally, fatally dull.
July 14, 2016
This is more a horror film than a martial arts extravaganza.
July 23, 2013
This is one of the most shocking and one of the best movies of the year.
July 30, 2013
Style over substance doesn't really tell the half of it: you can bathe a corpse in groovy light and dress it in an expensive suit, but in the end that rotting smell just won't go away.
