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Tomcat [ 7.0 ]
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Ryan Goslings brillantly raw performance carries the picture. He's got talent.
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Dancing_P [ 7.0 ]
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Ryan Gosling once again carries what should really have been some kind of high-concept indie wet dream (Crack addicted inner-city teacher befriends student! Lonely, probably autistic young man falls in love with sex doll! Jewish kid becomes a Neo-Nazi!).
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RyanSpradlin [ 7.5 ]
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Ryan Gosling does justice to some pretty heavy material. He is angry about being a jew, so much so that it drives him to become a nazi. The idea is interesting. There are moments in the movie where this definitely works and some where it doesn't. Gosling's performance is captivating though and that alone would make the movie worth watching. It does force the viewer to step back and consider some of the hate speak that is preached about tollerance and intollerance. A solid independent effort worth honorable mention.
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Corto [ 8.5 ]
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"The Believer isn't a film about a nazi-jew, it's a film about being a jew." -Henry Bean
Better than American History X. Hits hard.
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jeff_v [ 7.0 ]
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Henry Bean's drama about a self-hating neo-nazi Jew is more intellectually-stimulating than American History X (with more complex and better drawn characters), but less powerful. Ryan Gosling is excellent, but Billy Zane is miscast (that whole fascist side-plot didn't really work for me) and sports a terrible wig.
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| Weighted Rating | : 6.6 |
| No. Ratings | : 9 | |
| No. Reviews | : 6 | |
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