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Cool hand: Ryan Gosling as the heroic, big-hearted bank-robber in The Place Beyond the Pines

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Ryan Gosling is a laconic outlaw riding through an epic, dirty America ... but he's no Brando

Also showing: The Gatekeepers, Simon Killer, Flying Blind and First Position

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Film review: Gosling's outlaw blues run deep and dark in The Place Beyond the Pines

Derek Cianfrance follows his intimate relationship drama Blue Valentine with a large-canvas triptych about crime and punishment, fathers and sons, a crisis in US manhood and the state of the nation.

Bringing up baby: Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes in 'The Place Beyond the Pines'

Film review: Flying Blind (15)

Stage siren Helen McCrory is convincing as an ice-cool professional woman who melts at a younger man's touch. She plays an aeronautics engineer working on top-secret drones for the British military; words like "suction" and "drag" get bandied around in the first 10 minutes.

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Dror Moreh's sombre documentary is a journalistic coup. For the first time ever six former heads of Israel's homeland security outfit, the Shin Bet, talk openly on camera about the occupation of Palestinian territory and their long attritional war with terrorists.

Film review: Oblivion (12A)

When your last two movies (Rock of Ages, Jack Reacher) have underwhelmed at the box-office, it might be thought risky to have your next one called Oblivion.

Film review: First Position (U)

It's all tutu exciting as six young ballet dancers devote themselves to a gruelling year's preparation for the prestigious Youth America Grand Prix in New York.

Film review: Simon Killer (18)

After the creepy insinuations of his debut, Afterschool, writer-director Antonio Campos addresses the American Abroad, and the results aren't pretty.

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