Em uma performance absolutamente brilhante, o jovem Ryan Gosling cria um personagem que, mesmo moralmente desprezível, fascina por seu conflito interior.

Credit must certainly be given to Ryan Gosling for an intense performance here, but The Believer sometimes feels padded in order to fill in the space around his character.

The underdevloped Believer has at its core a performance of searing and genuine intensity, yet it also regrettably handles the psychological turmoil of its antagonistic protagonist with kid gloves.

Gosling projects a feral intelligence that is riveting...

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It made for an emotionally hair-pulling ride, without benefit of much intellectual give and take.

An uncomfortable experience, but one as brave and challenging as you could possibly expect these days from American cinema.

The Believer is packed to the gills with various speeches and lectures and theological bantering. Much of it ends with someone getting a baseball bat to the head.

this polarizing film deserves a wider audience