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Plot
A mysterious and mythical motorcycle racer, Luke, (Ryan Gosling) drives out of a traveling carnival globe of death and whizzes through the backstreets of Schenectady, New York, desperately trying to connect with a former lover, Romina, (Eva Mendes) who recently and secretly gave birth to the stunt rider’s son. In an attempt to provide for his new family, Luke quits the carnival life and commits a series of bank robberies aided by his superior riding ability.
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Movie Reviews:
- 100The Playlist - by Kevin Jagernauth
A brilliant, towering picture, The Place Beyond The Pines is a cinematic accomplishment of extraordinary grace and insight. ...read more - 91Tampa Bay Times - by Steve Persall
It's a story languorously told in three chapters, the first two in the late 1980s and the third 15 years later. Each could be a movie unto themselves. Together they prove Cianfrance to be an effectively unobtrusive storyteller, crafting without artifice what book critics would call a page turner. ...read more - 91indieWIRE - by Eric Kohn
That the movie succeeds both as a high-stakes crime thriller as well as a far quieter and empathetic study of angry, solitary men proves that Cianfrance has a penchant for bold storytelling and an eye for performances to carry it through. ...read more - 89Austin Chronicle - by Leah Churner
The film is so velvety textured and dreamy, I would’ve stuck around for more. That is Cianfrance’s special talent. ...read more - 88Philadelphia Inquirer - by Steven Rea
This is a story about legacy, the sins of the father, the restlessness in our souls. It's powerful, it's bold, it hits you hard. ...read more - 88Chicago Tribune - by Michael Phillips
It is a better, more fully felt and moving picture than "Blue Valentine." ...read more - 88USA Today - by Claudia Puig
A riveting crime thriller, it's also a multi-generational familial saga that approaches Greek tragedy. ...read more - 88New York Post - by Kyle Smith
Don't let the quiet, indie stylings of The Place Beyond the Pines fool you. This is a big movie with a lot on its mind. Slowly, it unfolds into a kind of epic. ...read more - 83Portland Oregonian - by Marc Mohan
Cianfrance is the real deal, and anyone who can persuade talented Hollywood stars to enact nonironic, intelligent, ambitious drama should be encouraged, especially when the result is something like this. ...read more - 80Empire - by Olly Richards
In trying to tell an enormous amount of story it can spread itself too thin and leave some strands feeling unfinished, but when it’s at its best, this is beautiful and bold filmmaking. ...read more - 80Total Film - by Jamie Graham
Gosling and Cooper use their star currency to power a slow-burn, heartsick drama. "Blue Valentine" director Cianfrance is a serious talent. ...read more - 75St. Louis Post-Dispatch - by Calvin Wilson
The acting is first-rate. Gosling masterfully fills in Luke’s motivational blanks, and Cooper nicely handles Avery’s evolution from idealist to manipulator. ...read more - 75Rolling Stone - by Peter Travers
It's a beast of a movie, an emotional roller coaster that threatens to go off the rails, and does. But Cianfrance, working from a scrappy script he wrote with Ben Coccio and Darius Marder, takes you on a hell of a ride. ...read more - 75ReelViews - by James Berardinelli
The characters are interesting and capture our sympathy and, although there are things to criticize about the final forty-five minutes, it brings the saga to a conclusion. There's a lot to like about The Place Beyond the Pines even if it isn't the feel-good movie of the spring. ...read more - 75The A.V. Club - by Nathan Rabin
Few actors are as riveting doing absolutely nothing, and The Place Beyond The Pines perfectly typecasts Gosling as a noir staple: the decent but rudderless drifter driven to violent and desperate action. ...read more - 75Film.com - by Laremy Legel
There is true beauty in the despair that pervades The Place Beyond the Pines, a film plotted out in triptych, a treatise on the moral compromises we all make to protect and provide for our loved ones. ...read more - 70Arizona Republic - by Bill Goodykoontz
The risk of telling three distinct-but-related stories is that all may not be of equal quality. That’s the case here, as the movie starts strong but gets progressively weaker, particularly in the third act. ... - 70Time - by Mary Pols
The Place Beyond the Pines can’t be said to be anyone’s movie but Cianfrance’s. Structured as a triptych, the movie is novelistic, earnest and somewhat exhausting — an ambitious effort that tries to be many things. And it is definitely something: a sprawling, engaging study in fathers, sons and sins. ...read more - 70Los Angeles Times - by Betsy Sharkey
The movie is intimate in its telling, sweeping in its issues and stumbles only occasionally. ...read more - 70Slate - by Dana Stevens
The movie’s soulful self-seriousness, like that of its liquid-eyed hero, can occasionally slip into self-parody. But this movie confirms my "Blue Valentine"-based suspicion that the 38-year-old Cianfrance is one to watch. He’s capable of coaxing tremendous moments from actors, he knows how to move a camera, and as this over-laden but never boring movie shows, he’s willing to operate from a place of risk. ...read more - 70Wall Street Journal - by Joe Morgenstern
One-third wonderful, The Place Beyond the Pines weakens as it unfolds for lack of what makes the early part so good. ...read more - 70The New York Times - by A.O. Scott
The three-part story, spread over nearly two and a half hours, represents a triumph of sympathetic imagination and a failure of narrative economy. But if, in the end, the film can’t quite sustain its epic vision, it does, along the way, achieve the density and momentum of a good novel. ... - 70The Hollywood Reporter - by David Rooney
Cianfrance generally shows again that he knows how to build immersive characterizations with his actors. And while this sorrowful triptych is uneven and perhaps overly ambitious, the director displays a cool mastery of atmospherics and tone. ...read more - 63The Globe and Mail (Toronto) - by Rick Groen
Once again, Cianfrance handles the individual scenes with menacing aplomb but, once again, the whole is much less than the sum of its parts. ...read more - 63Boston Globe - by Ty Burr
It’s very much a film about men, their yearnings and discontents, and about the way sins tumble down from one generation to the next. It’s a bank-robber movie, too, as well as a drama about the pressures teenagers face from parents and peers. You can feel Cianfrance biting off more and more until his mouth is too full to chew. ...read more - 60Salon.com - by Andrew O'Hehir
I never stopped being interested in The Place Beyond the Pines, and never stopped rooting for Cianfrance to make the hubristic ambition of his immense tripartite scheme pay off, even as it evidently falls apart. ...read more - 60Village Voice - by Scott Foundas
The Place Beyond the Pines is a much bigger canvas, and scene by scene it can be riveting...But the disparate pieces never quite jell; the movie is all trees and no forest. ...read more - 60Time Out New York - by Joshua Rothkopf
Yet after the actorcentric fireworks of Cianfrance’s "Blue Valentine" (2010), it’s impressive to see him going after a wider sociopolitical scope, one that would have been better served by a less repetitive structure. ...read more - 60The Guardian - by Henry Barnes
The Place Beyond the Pines is ambitious and epic, perhaps to a fault. ...read more - 50Miami Herald - by Rene Rodriguez
While the scope of the movie is bigger, its impact is smaller. "Blue Valentine" was a precise, heartrending portrait of a marriage coming apart at the seams. The theme of his new movie is a lot harder to discern. ...read more - 50NPR - by Mark Jenkins
Too much of this seething drama is devoted not to characterization but to posturing. ...read more - 50Entertainment Weekly - by Chris Nashawaty
It's a slow-burner that burns so slowly its wick completely fizzles out. ...read more - 50Movie Nation - by Roger Moore
Unwieldy, overlong and overly reliant on melodramatic coincidences, A Place in the Pines is still better than it has any right to be, thanks to its cast. ...read more - 50The New Yorker - by David Denby
Cool, violent, a cigarette dangling from his mouth, Gosling reprises his inexorable-loner routine from “Drive.” Cianfrance and the screenwriters Ben Coccio and Darius Marder wrote thirty-seven drafts of the script, but gave him almost nothing to say. He rides, he smokes, he knocks over banks, he loves his baby, and that’s it. ...read more - 50New York Magazine (Vulture) - by David Edelstein
The segments are essentially monodramas, so sketchily written that the big moments feel less like recognizable human behavior than recognizable screenwriter overreaching. ...read more - 50Variety - by Peter Debruge
Two half-stories about fathers and sons on opposite sides of the law do not a full movie make in The Place Beyond the Pines, the overlong and under-conceived reunion between “Blue Valentine” director Derek Cianfrance and lookalike star Ryan Gosling. ... - 50Slant Magazine - by
The film never reaches a climax because it's always in one, distilling the lives of its characters to their tensest moments. ...read more
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No wonder some actors got nominated for this. It was a well made movie and I really enjoyed it
Not really something I would watch over on my own but definitely recommend for at least once.
Saw this erlier at the theater, really liked it. Good drama and great acting all round.
I actually just heard about this movie for the first time today and then I went to see it. haha I’m not really a fan of Bradley and Ryan but I still thought it was a pretty great movie. I usually like movies that are long but I have no idea why this needed to be as long as it was. But in general I thought it turned out pretty well. Even though it’s not a comedy, it still had a few lines here and there that some of us in the theater laughed at, which always helps make it more enjoyable. :]
The Gosling and Cooper fans are going to love this for the simple fact that they love anything these two are in. And although they both deliver individually well in this film, the writing and continuity made this movie less than what it could have been. IMHO 6/10
Not a real fan of Gosling or Cooper, but both of them need to win at least something for their performances. This story is great, albeit the structure is very different from how movies are usually structured, so it’ll probably take a while to get to used to it fully. Performances, cinematography, story, scenery, all are 8/10-10/10. Best movie I’ve seen all year. 9.5/10