The limited series is a carnival of horrors weighed down by moralizing, hysteria, and cross-associations.
This luminous and informative Blu-ray release should ensure at least some degree of collective reconsideration in the years to come.
Derek Cianfrance’s film is a beautifully sustained study in adult themes of emotional crisis.
The director talked about Ryan Gosling, family, fateful collaborations, and how, in art and life, choices mean everything.
There’s but one sequence in the entire movie that offers even the slightest bit of filmmaking verve, and even this speaks to the project’s essential myopia.
The film sacrifices emotional specificity to often-purple marriages of sight and sound.
An enormously overheated yet oddly affecting movie gets an appropriately earnest DVD treatment.
Derek Cianfrance’s shoots through foreground material that’s so far out of focus it barely registers as objects.
True love sweeps into a person’s life like a volatile weather system, bringing with it an exhilarating sense of hope and possibility.
Xavier Beauvois’s Of Gods and Men is, no more and no less, a handsomely mounted French prestige picture.