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By Brian Juergens (209) for Freeze Dried Movies (80) on 09 Aug 2006

As an achingly wise young student caught between the intentions of those who mean to help and those who mean to exploit her, newcomer Shareeka…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for AV Club (2,778) on 09 Aug 2006

Gosling excels at playing contradictory characters like this one, having kick-started his career as a Jewish neo-Nazi in The Believer, but…

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By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 08 Aug 2006

Half Nelson offers an opportunity to marvel, once again, at the dazzling talent of Ryan Gosling for playing young men as believable as they…

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By Rob Nelson (320) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Aug 2006

The audacity of making an inner-city drama in which the white-male authority figure is the crackhead finds its equal in Gosling's already legendary…

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By Pam Grady (384) for Reel.com (1,232) on 26 May 2006

The star of the piece is definitely Gosling: so sweet, so smart, so troubled, and so much the jerk…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 13 May 2006

A TV-special kind of movie made watchable by Ryan Gosling's magnetic performance…

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By Dennis Lim (218) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Mar 2006

Sardonic yet moving, Half Nelson deftly outlines the perils of youthful idealism without lapsing into knee-jerk cynicism…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Mar 2006

More nuanced than your average Sundance character study, Ryan Fleck's carefully observed Half Nelson still doesn't overcome its origins as…

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By James Greenberg (88) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 31 Jan 2006

If there was ever any doubt, with Half Nelson, Ryan Gosling establishes himself as a major talent and one of the finest young actors around…

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