Lost River
Warner Bros. | Release Date: April 10, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
42
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 21 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
13
Negative:
5
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38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Brad WheelerApr 23, 2015
In time, we may look back at Lost River as a fascinating mess or a misunderstood miss. As for his promise, I’d be fine if Gosling promises to never make a film like this again. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineEd GonzalezApr 7, 2015
The story, more a tangle of violent, symbolic gestures, regards economic exploitation with fetishistic, impossibly overdetermined abandon. Read full review
20
TheWrapInkoo KangApr 9, 2015
Lost River is little more than Detroit-based ruin porn, an aesthetic exploitation of poverty and hardship punctuated by splashes of neon and blood. Read full review
20
The TelegraphRobbie CollinMay 26, 2014
The result is cinema you don’t watch so much as absent-mindedly scroll through, wondering when an idea or an image worth clicking on will finally show up. Read full review
20
VarietyJustin ChangMay 26, 2014
A risible slab of Detroit gothic that marks an altogether inauspicious writing-directing debut for Ryan Gosling. Read full review
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