Directors are always digging around in their psyches for material - David Lynch, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Lars von Trier ... Refn's anxiety seems out to top theirs. But there's no joy or folly or transcendence. It's a one-dimensional video game of death.
Only God Forgives
Time to meet the Devil.
2013 · 1h 29m · R
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Nicolas Winding Refn
Overview
Julian, who runs a Thai boxing club as a front organization for his family's drug smuggling operation, is forced by his mother Crystal to find and kill the individual responsible for his brother's recent death.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Ryan Gosling and his "Drive" director, Nicolas Winding Refn, sail into the heart of darkness and emerge with a trinket of crackpot porno kitsch.
Style over substance doesn't really tell the half of it: you can bathe a corpse in groovy light and dress it in an expensive suit, but in the end that rotting smell just won't go away.
This is one of the most shocking and one of the best movies of the year.
Refn's nerve is admirable, even if his film often borders on unwatchable.
More films
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)
Action · Crime · Thriller · R
Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Director
- Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez
- Cast
- Jessica Alba, Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke
Insomnia (2002)
Crime · Drama · Thriller · R
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
- Director
- Christopher Nolan
- Cast
- Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank
Arlington Road (1999)
Crime · Drama · Mystery · Thriller · R
Bedraggled college professor Michael Faraday has been vexed — and increasingly paranoid — since his wife's accidental death in a botched FBI operation. When a seemingly all-American couple set up house next door, Michael begin to suspect there’s more to them than meets the eye.
- Runtime
- 1h 57m
- Director
- Mark Pellington
- Cast
- Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack
Entrapment (1999)
Drama · Mystery · Romance · PG-13
Two thieves, who travel in elegant circles, try to outsmart each other and, in the process, end up falling in love.
- Runtime
- 1h 52m
- Director
- Jon Amiel, Rolf Saxon
- Cast
- Catherine Zeta-Jones, Sean Connery, Will Patton










Comments
Talk about the film with other members