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Blue Valentine

2010

Derek Cianfrance

Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Mike Vogel, John Doman ...

6.9

25,351

Romance. Drama Dean (Ryan Gosling) and Cindy (Michelle Williams) have been together for six years, during which they have enjoyed passionate love, had a child and decided to marry. But suddenly their love relationship is on the brink of falling apart: Cindy has lost interest in the relationship and, in an attempt to rekindle the flame, Dean suggests a visit to a theme hotel where he selects the “future room” as the place to spend the night. From that ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Gosling and Williams give two of the most explosive and emotionally naked performances you will see anywhere (...) Cianfrance directs in a storm of feeling, as if the movie was ripped from his insides (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Derek Cianfrance, the film's writer and director, observes with great exactitude the birth and decay of a relationship. This film is alive in its details (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Ann Hornaday The Washington Post	"'Blue Valentine' is an oddly exhilarating experience, if only to witness two of the screen’s finest actors working at the top of their game, to the depth of their souls"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A sombre, painful portrait of a toxic marriage, often touching and sometimes moving, though occasionally contrived and self-conscious in its effects (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Gosling is convincing (...) Williams is, as ever, heartbreakingly precise in every scene"	POS
United States	Duane Byrge The Hollywood Reporter	"Ultimately, the heavy-handed and annoyingly obvious aesthetic wears thin (...) Fortunately, the performances are fleshed out and telling"	NEU
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"It's certainly a rare thing when an American film escapes the moral-lesson pattern ... which leads us to the extraordinary and beautiful 'Blue Valentine'."	POS
United States	Nathan Rabin AV Club	"It has the sting and sadness of real life. The effect is powerful, yet strangely not overwhelming"	POS
United States	Kevin Jagernauth IndieWire	"Cianfrance has presented us with a film valentine that while prickly, raw and devastatingly real, is one to be treasured"	POS

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