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Lost River

2014

Ryan Gosling

Christina Hendricks, Saoirse Ronan, Iain De Caestecker, Matt Smith ...

5.3

3,394

Drama "Lost River" is a dark fairy tale about love, family and the fight for survival in the face of danger. In the virtually abandoned city of Lost River, Billy, a single mother of two, is led into a macabre underworld in her quest to save her childhood home and hold her family together. Her teenage son Bones discovers a mystery about the origins of Lost River that triggers his curiosity and sets into motion an unexpected journey that will ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"Had Terrence Malick and David Lynch somehow conceived an artistic love-child together, only to see it get kidnapped, strangled and repeatedly kicked in the face by Nicolas Winding Refn, the results might look and sound something like “Lost River"	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It is often ridiculous and fatuous but often ingenious. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"David Lynch, Mario Bava, Nicolas Winding Refn, Terence Malick, Gaspar Noé and a splash of David Cronenberg for good measure. But these filmmakers’ ideas and imagery aren’t developed, they’re simply reproduced (...) Rating: ★ (out of five)"	NEG
United States	Ben Kenigsberg The New York Times	"Slyly political, it observes the mortgage crisis through a warped looking glass. The cinematographer (...) finds a perverse beauty in the decline."	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"A visual and aural sensory bath that shows some real flair but feels madly derivative at every moment."	NEU
United States	Oliver Lyttelton IndieWire	"Given the talent assembled, the emptiness at its center only makes it feel like more of a waste. But it does look great, it does sound great (...) and can be fitfully interesting."	NEU

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