2005’s ‘Stay’ is too aggressively off, fostering sensitivity to its head game rather than engagement in the story. Gosling holds it together
Twitter Review: Stay
29 Nov 2010
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Posted by Culture Snob on Monday, November 29, 2010.
Filed in Movies, Tweets and tagged Marc Forster (2), Ryan Gosling (1), Stay (1), Thrillers (27), Twitter Reviews (64).
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