Review of Only God Forgives (2013) by Luke W — 06 Dec 2017

Incredible and powerful moments, as well as mesmerizing direction from Refn, make Only God Forgives an experience instead of simple, cinematic white noise.

This review of Only God Forgives (2013) was written by Luke W on 06 Dec 2017.

Only God Forgives has generally received mixed reviews.

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By Sandro R (75) on 06 Dec 2017

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Winding Refn is a few things, he is a Director who specialises in high-concept idea films and he is a Director of Arthouse aimed films…

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By Jonfreakin J (28) on 10 Nov 2017

This movie was stupid. Nothing happened in 30 mins. Ryan gosling just started at people and people talked Thai. That was about it. Pass on this one…

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