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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 22 Mar 2013

Two half-stories about fathers and sons on opposite sides of the law do not a full movie make in The Place Beyond the Pines, the overlong and…

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By Mark Ellis (362) for Schmoes Know (710) on 21 Mar 2013

A worthy endeavor that is still good, however I bet that falls short of it's lofty goals…

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By Edward Douglas (1,395) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 15 Mar 2013

Not nearly as strong as Cianfrance's previous movie, but it comes across as an interesting dramatic storytelling experiment that ultimately pays off…

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By Jordan Hoffman (1,025) for ScreenCrush (954) on 15 Mar 2013

The Place Beyond the Pines' comes readymade with a heft. . .as if students have been banging out essays on [it] for years…

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By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Mar 2013

The film never reaches a climax because it's always in one, distilling the lives of its characters to their tensest moments…

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By Staci Layne Wilson (667) for Yahoo! Movies (43) on 13 Mar 2013

An epic soap opera obscured by high style and buoyed by Ryan Gosling's 8-pack abs, The Place Beyond the Pines is really nothing more than delicious…

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By Erick Weber (123) for Final Cut on Film (14) on 05 Mar 2013

While Cianfrance's overambitious narrative and Crash-y conclusion come perilously close to bringing the film to its knees, the electrifying…

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By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 03 Mar 2013

A brilliant, towering picture, The Place Beyond The Pines is a cinematic accomplishment of extraordinary grace and insight…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for Indiewire (3,631) on 03 Mar 2013

That the movie succeeds both as a high-stakes crime thriller as well as a far quieter and empathetic study of angry, solitary men proves that…

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By Laremy Legel (198) for Film.com (1,892) on 03 Mar 2013

There is true beauty in the despair that pervades The Place Beyond the Pines, a film plotted out in triptych, a treatise on the moral compromises…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 03 Mar 2013

Cianfrance generally shows again that he knows how to build immersive characterizations with his actors…

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By Henry Barnes (139) for The Guardian (2,969) on 03 Mar 2013

The Place Beyond the Pines is ambitious and epic, perhaps to a fault…

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By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 14 Feb 2013

An unbalanced dual narrative plays out in Derek Cianfrance's (Blue Valentine) unsteady attempt to extract universal truths about unintended…

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By Andrew Robinson (3) for Film School Rejects (1,198) on 22 Jan 2013

Most every element of the film is impeccable…

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By Fred Topel (1,193) for CraveOnline (813) on 14 Sep 2012

Honestly, they could just call it Bluer Valentine: Drive Faster... See, in one movie he's a stuntman who drives getaway…

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By Tim Robey (1,578) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 13 Sep 2012

My admiration for Cianfrance is all the greater for the melodramatic risks he's willing to take, whether or not every last one of them pays off…

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By David Baldwin (17) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 11 Sep 2012

Lengthy and dense film packed with a handful of great performances, The Place Beyond the Pines has great ambition but not nearly enough…

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By Chris Stuckmann (217) for Moviedex (362) on 10 Sep 2012

A film so thematically and dramatically rich, soulful and suspenseful, it carves itself into your consciousness and refuses to leave…

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By Ian Gilchrist (30) for HeyUGuys (1,461) on 09 Sep 2012

A superb drama that is focuses unflinchingly on the often anguished relationship between men and their boys, between men and other men, and…

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