Review of Only God Forgives (2013) by William D — 02 Mar 2018

Great movie. You must have an aquired taste for weird films to really enjoy this work. Refn and Gosling come together again for an awesome movie.

This review of Only God Forgives (2013) was written by William D on 02 Mar 2018.

Only God Forgives has generally received mixed reviews.

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By Micah S (134) on 19 Aug 2018

It tries to work as a full-length feature film but 'Only God Forgives' fails to do so as it has only a television episode's worth of material…

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By Mark Jay K (158) on 13 Apr 2018

Only God Forgives is a lurid, brutally violent, surreal experience from beginning to end…

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By Lucas K (124) on 19 Aug 2018

It tries to work as a full-length feature film but 'Only God Forgives' fails to do so as it has only a television episode's worth of material…

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By Hugoferreira (17) on 28 Aug 2018

When I saw Refn team up again with Gosling I thought to myself This will be good. It's not, it's bad, it's really bad. What happened…

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By Cole S (148) on 12 Dec 2018

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 Sarah Marrs (566) for Cinesnark (167) on 19 Oct 2017

Everything about Only God Forgives is either totally unpleasant or so weird and abstract it's obnoxious…

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By Grant D (13) on 21 Sep 2018

Such grittiness that nothing but blood comes out of it…

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By Tyranian (764) on 13 Feb 2020

Another fairly mesmerising film from Nicolas Winding Refn, this guy has got some serious skills…

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By Tyler R (1,095) 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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By Jennifer Heaton (346) for Alternative Lens (346) on 01 Nov 2018

This is style over substance at its worst…

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