Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone play a jazz pianist and an actress trying to make it big in Los Angeles while navigating a relationship.
Ryan Gosling
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The Nice Guys is a harmlessly good time built on co-star chemistry
Shane Black’s The Nice Guys takes great pains to show it is set in the 1970s.
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Reel good
Rod Lott’s picks With even fewer great movies in 2011 than 2010, I was unsure whether I’d be able to find enough to fill the standard 10 slots. (Oddly, Tom Cruise to the rescue!) I’m also unsure what it says about me that I know general audiences would not be able to handle four of […]
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Drive
From the pink, cursive typeface and pulsing, instrumental music of the opening credits, audience members will feel as if something is out of place, as if the movie is just a bit “off.” That’s because director Nicolas Winding Refn (“Bronson”) has immersed this tale in the style of Michael Mann’s “Thief,” rather than today’s “Transporter” […]
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Blue Valentine
Williams didn’t have a chance, really, but in another year, amid a different set of nominees, things might be different. The same shift in luck applies to the couple that comprises this film’s core: one year, blissful; another, miserable. Cindy (Williams) is a nurse, while her husband, Dean (Ryan Gosling, “Lars and the Real Girl”), […]