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Only God Forgives is a 2013 drama thriller crime film, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, starring Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas and Vithaya Pansringarm.
- 98 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon, TMDB reviews
- posts span Jul 1, 2018 to Oct 28, 2026
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60 of 109 · most liked first#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched It's been a week chock full of Ryan G. Project Hail Mary - Adorable Space Gosling Only God Forgives - Looking Stern And Not Speaking Gosling The Fall Guy - Giving You A Thumb All The Way Up Gosling Driller Killer - Sir Not Appearing In This Film Gosling
neutral · AI labelView post →Once I was walking past the Angelika and saw that Refn's then-new movie Only God Forgives was playing in minutes. I popped in and watched. No one left during the end credits, which I found odd even for an arthouse crowd. The lights go up and Refn is there. I'd stumbled into a Q&A. Only in New York!
neutral · AI labelView post →WIP of some Only God Forgives fanart. It's not just my favorite Ryan Gosling movie it's in my top 3 movies of all with Interstellar and Spirited Away.
positive · AI labelView post →I'm on record saying nice things about ONLY GOD FORGIVES and THE NEON DEMON, but the new Nic Refn movie completely lost me. (Keith seemed to like the pickle ball movie okay, though.) thereveal.film/in-review-th...
positive · AI labelView post →Danish film director Nicolas Winding Refn (Only God Forgives (probably not in this case)) and Japanese game creator Hideo Kojima (Boktai) teamed up for a 6min long Ai short film for Prada. [1/2] wwd.com/fashion-news...
neutral · AI labelView post →It's great. The guy who directed "Drive" and "Only God Forgives" did a restoration of it about 10 years ago. archive.org/details/if-f...
neutral · AI labelView post →“How did you make a movie more insane than Only God Forgives?” “Well Only God Forgives is about the relationship between mothers and sons…and how all sons want to have sex with their mothers…which is true. This is about the father-daughter dynamic which is more complex for me”
neutral · AI labelView post →I have a bad radar for what is "Well known" so we'll see how this goes... *Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency* was weird, wonderful, and deeply touching. Great performance from Elijah Wood. *Maniac* is by the director of True Detective, and its a fucking surreal (literal) drug trip of a show that earns a high spot on the "Holy shit, Jonah Hill is a great actor?!" list. *SAS: Rogue Heroes* is a bonkers fun historical drama that feels like a Guy Ritchie movie, and yet is somehow often…
neutral · AI labelView post →Using MOVIE as an acronym, recommend 5 films. My picks - M - Marrowbone O - Only God Forgives V - Velvet Buzzsaw I - if.... E - Empty Man, The
neutral · AI labelView post →Sometimes I make movie edits. This song is called Black, Black Heart (by David Usher) about Julian from Only God Forgives. Hope you like it. #ryangosling
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's film is... Only God Forgives (2013). It's Refn and Gosling, so I won't be able to post much. A) high on visual storytelling low on dislogue so need to watch B) frickin gorgeous so can't take my eyes off for even a shot I mean this opening shot...
neutral · AI labelView post →Nicolas Winding Refn: (1) DRIVE: damn near perfection. (2) THE NEON DEMON: will go to war about this movie being good. (3) ONLY GOD FORGIVES: makes me feel like shit, but it’s beautiful. (4) VALHALLA RISING: IDGAF about Vikings.
neutral · AI labelView post →I love cinema. It is my passion & my vocation. Rare that I get this excited to see a film. The three times I can remember this level of anticipation are before Goodfellas, Heat and Only God Forgives. Two are masterpieces and one had me wanting to kick the directors ass. Giddyup.
neutral · AI labelView post →Oil color study of Ryan Gosling in the film “Only God Forgives.” I love Nicolas Winding Refn’s lighting and set design, and this was a great exercise in cool and warm light! 🌈 #oilpainting #allaprima #ryangosling #movieart
neutral · AI labelView post →ONLY GOD FORGIVES - Prayers and Triangles Song: Prayers and Triangles (Com Truise Remix) Artist: Deftones Movie: Only God Forgives #ryangoslinggosling #onlygodforgives
neutral · AI labelView post →Is Only God Forgives a "good" "movie?" Let's let the eggheads and pencil pushers in Washington figure that out. Get three beers and or an edible and let that collection of images pass through you.
positive · AI labelView post →I'd seen The Notebook back in the day, but Drive was the first time I really became aware of Ryan Gosling, and I was like, okay, I wanna watch whatever this guy goes. (Then he did Only God Forgives and Lost River, and yeah, I stuck through that.) There aren't a lot of real movie stars anymore, but
neutral · AI labelView post →see, people didn’t get “Only God Forgives” (2013) because they didn’t realise that it’s a Muppets movie. seriously. cast everyone other than Ryan Gosling as a Muppet and you will understand.
neutral · AI labelView post →>But imo, the really high quality of Nolan's visual directing does so much work distracting people from how lacking the movie is in actual substance. Kind of describes most of Nolan's movies really. As a technical director, he's almost unparalleled, but his movies have often struggled to find a meaningful emotional core. They're all polish, but often lacking in substance. Tenet was especially bad for this. An absolute masterpiece of directorial craftsmanship, but almost entirely devoid of…
neutral · AI labelView post →Only God Forgives Finally saw this in full. Better than Drive. Probably Ryan Gosling's best performance. A movie about how Gosling's white boy swag is no match for Vithaya Pansringarm's sheer effortless aura.
positive · AI labelView post →Drive and Only God Forgives are the same movie except one is fun and good and the other is un-fun and bad
negative · AI labelView post →Watched Only God Forgives just now, my second Refn film after Drive, and I think I like it way better than Drive
positive · AI labelView post →Admittedly, I haven't loved every Refn film but I will say without hesitation that all of them are worth watching. (Yes, I'm including ONLY GOD FORGIVES.)
positive · AI labelView post →Tonight we watched "Only God Forgives" directed by Nicolas Winding Refn (Pusher Trilogy, Valhalla Rising, Neon Demon). Lots of long silences, contemplative gore, distorted eroticism, and archetypal evil characters presented in lush color schemes. A noir film about authoritarianism and punishment.
neutral · AI labelView post →Fav film: 93 - Jurassic Park 03 - Willard 13 - Only God Forgives 23 - Infinity Pool but that's only one of 3 movies and I didn't love it
neutral · AI labelView post →Now rewatching Only God Forgives (2013)! 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →ONLY GOD FORGIVES what the hell was even that. i hate these fake deep movies where everyone is expressionless and barely talks and it’s just them murdering each other i get bored so quickly. what message are they even trying to send? crime bad? men strong? women sexy? stop making these movies goddd
negative · AI labelView post →Hell, I’m a big defender of Only God Forgives My god that film is beautiful
positive · AI labelView post →His film Only God Forgives has to be the most style over substance film of his, hands down
negative · AI labelView post →Man seeing ONLY GOD FORGIVES on 35mm in a theater was just the best. This is a beautiful movie, a real meal for the eyes and ears. Vithaya Pansringarm as the “Angel of Death” Gosling as the tortured impotent younger brother, and Thomas as the incestuous mother - just all wonderful.
positive · AI labelView post →I think a really good example of good CGI is Only God Forgives, where despite being a super low budget film, it was able to use CGI in very effective ways - mostly to erase dolly tracks and equipment wires, etc.
positive · AI labelView post →Whats fun for me is Only God Forgives wants so badly to be a chin stroking art film for the intellectuals and kind of people who say optics and panopticon to discuss over cortado but no one cares
negative · AI labelView post →134) The Neon Demon (2016, dir. Nicolas Winding Refn) #Filmsky 📽️ This is the only film of Refn's I've not seen yet. I enjoyed most of them a lot, with 'Drive' and 'Only God Forgives' being the only real exceptions.
negative · AI labelView post →Only God Forgives (2013) A movie that seemed impenetrable on first watch but was so fascinating I've watched it many times. A hypnotic Freudian deconstruction of masculinity, revenge, and hubris.
positive · AI labelView post →I spend a lot more time than I should imagining a parallel universe where the film Only God Forgives was as great as it’s trailer was.
negative · AI labelView post →I've heard of the concept in the streaming space of "number of minutes watched", like there's a different way of judging success. This has me wondering if there's a demand from up top to make these shows longer in order to increase that metric. I say this because while slow pacing can be an artistic choice and I'm perfectly fine for it for the right story. I lapped up Oppenheimer, and movies like Only God Forgives. When it works, it works. Ahsoka felt like it was stretched way out of pace, a…
neutral · AI labelView post →It's good, man. Weird art movie that he made around the time he was in Drive and Only God Forgives. Big Harmoney Korine/NWR vibes.
neutral · AI labelView post →In case anyone is curious here‘s some more brilliant Movie scores you should listen to (not ranked): Good Time - Oneohtrix Point Never Tenet - Ludwig Göransson Only God Forgives - Cliff Martinez
neutral · AI labelView post →#bestfilminlondontoday Sep 28 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com. Winding Refn's remarkable ONLY GOD FORGIVES @princecharlescinema.com. Booed at Cannes but @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social gets close to heart of film here www.theguardian.com/film/2013/au...
neutral · AI labelView post →Ryan is truly done with making films like Drive and Only God Forgives.
neutral · AI labelView post →Favorite film for each year of the 2010s: 2010: Beyond the Black Rainbow 2011: Bridesmaids 2012: Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie 2013: Only God Forgives 2014: It Follows 2015: Closet Monster 2016: The Void 2017: Strapped for Danger 2018: Assassination Nation 2019: About Endlessness 📽️
positive · AI labelView post →I think I enjoyed it the first time but I was kinda new to that sort of thing at the time . The next Gosling film from that director “Only God Forgives” was kind of cringey and it started to feel like a bunch of macho cliche and bright colors
negative · AI labelView post →I haven't seen his new movie yet, but it might have a positive response on Refn to read better writers. The world might avoid another Only God Forgives.
negative · AI labelView post →Text to Matt: I met director Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives) this weekend after a screening of his new movie Her Private Hell, and I told him about you, because you were the biggest NWR fan that I knew. You even gave The Neon Demon 5 stars on Letterboxd!
neutral · AI labelView post →Last night I watched Ryan Gosling in “Only God Forgives” and the movie was amazing in its ability to take an incredibly charming and likeable actor and make him both awful AND dull.
negative · AI labelView post →It was the first movie of his I didn’t like. Didn’t like his projects after that on tv. I still have hope to like another movie he does. Maybe the new one. I love Drive, Only God Forgives, and Bronson.
positive · AI labelView post →If I adore Drive but think Only God Forgives is a serious contender for the worst movie ever made, where might I fall on this one?
negative · AI labelView post →Shoutout to the person who I overheard say “I can’t believe Ryan Gosling would be in a movie like this” after a critic screening of Only God Forgives. I will never forget you.
neutral · AI labelView post →All the negative reviews of Her Private Hell is reminiscent of Only God Forgives. A film I love.
positive · AI labelView post →similar reviews dropped for Only God Forgives, his best movie
positive · AI labelView post →It’s been ten years since Danish wild-man Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives, Pusher) released his last cinematic feature film, The Neon Demon. Welcome back, NWR!
neutral · AI labelView post →Everyone hates on Only God Forgives so much, but it may be my favorite It’s truly an “every frame a painting” movie
positive · AI labelView post →I know from experience it's bonkers and not good aside from the Cliff Martinez score and being the best movie ever as far as wallpaper goes, but considering catching Only God Forgives on the big screen tonight...
neutral · AI labelView post →I remember I really liked Drive, but then I watched "Only God Forgives" and realized Nicholas Winding Refn only made one good movie by mistake
negative · AI labelView post →For beautiful but terrible films look no further than NWR. Apart from Drive which is one of the best and most beautiful films of the 21st century the rest of his output is awful. Has there ever been a trailer as beautiful & enticing as that for Only God Forgives but for such a disappointing film?
negative · AI labelView post →If you hated Nicolas Winding Refn's film, you should also check out Only God Forgives for another head scratcher.
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs (hard mode, no SW, ST, or LOTR) Only God Forgives
neutral · AI labelView post →I love the movie and Refn found a great balance between traditionally entertaining and artsy fartsy. His next film, Only God Forgives, was full on artsy fartsy , but I loved it. After that, he disappeared up his own ass and I haven’t enjoyed anything since, but I know I’ll like something again.
positive · AI labelView post →My ★★★★½ review of Only God Forgives (2013) boxd.it/7dvsmz
positive · AI labelView post →IMHO this one didn’t have vibes as good, or story as repellent, as Only God Forgives (the most beautiful movie I genuinely hate) but it also wasn’t nearly as good as, say, Stoker (2013), or Lady Macbeth (2016), where the vibes take the wheel a lot but they’re still really thrillers!
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