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Nicholas Barber
Sunday 22 January 2012 01:00 GMT
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Ryan Gosling is as cool as a fridgeful of cucumbers, playing a getaway driver who never lets himself get involved with anyone else ... until, naturally, he catches sight of the golden-hearted single mother (Carey Mulligan) down the hall.

It's not what you'd call an innovative story, but the Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn steers it with supreme style, shifting from dreamlike calm to grisly violence in the blink of an eye.

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