All Ryan Gosling Movies Ranked

Critics Consensus: With its hyper-stylized blend of violence, music, and striking imagery, Drive represents a fully realized vision of arthouse action.

Synopsis: Driver is a skilled Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. Though he projects an icy exterior, lately he's been warming up... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks

Directed By: Nicolas Winding Refn

Critics Consensus: La La Land breathes new life into a bygone genre with thrillingly assured direction, powerful performances, and an irresistible excess of heart.

Synopsis: Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) and Mia (Emma Stone) are drawn together by their common desire to do what they love. But as success mounts they are... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend, Rosemarie DeWitt

Directed By: Damien Chazelle

Critics Consensus: The Nice Guys hearkens back to the buddy comedies of a bygone era while adding something extra courtesy of a knowing script and the irresistible chemistry of its leads.

Synopsis: Holland March (Ryan Gosling) is a down-on-his-luck private eye in 1977 Los Angeles. Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe) is a hired enforcer who hurts people for... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Angourie Rice, Matt Bomer

Directed By: Shane Black

Critics Consensus: Half Nelson features powerful performances from Ryan Gosling and Shareeka Epps. It's a wise, unsentimental portrait of lonely people at the crossroads.

Synopsis: Dan Dunne (Ryan Gosling) is a history teacher at a Brooklyn school. Though well-liked by his students and colleagues, he secretly spends his evenings hopping... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Ryan Gosling, Shareeka Epps, Anthony Mackie, Deborah Rush

Directed By: Ryan Fleck

Critics Consensus: The Big Short approaches a serious, complicated subject with an impressive attention to detail -- and manages to deliver a well-acted, scathingly funny indictment of its real-life villains in the bargain.

Synopsis: In 2008, Wall Street guru Michael Burry realizes that a number of subprime home loans are in danger of defaulting. Burry bets against the housing... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale, Brad Pitt

Directed By: Adam McKay

Critics Consensus: Barbie is a visually dazzling comedy whose meta humor is smartly complemented by subversive storytelling.

Synopsis: To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon

Directed By: Greta Gerwig

Critics Consensus: Visually stunning and narratively satisfying, Blade Runner 2049 deepens and expands its predecessor's story while standing as an impressive filmmaking achievement in its own right.

Synopsis: Officer K (Ryan Gosling), a new blade runner for the Los Angeles Police Department, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks

Directed By: Denis Villeneuve

Critics Consensus: First Man uses a personal focus to fuel a look back at a pivotal moment in human history - and takes audiences on a soaring dramatic journey along the way.

Synopsis: Hoping to reach the moon by the end of the decade, NASA plans a series of extremely dangerous, unprecedented missions in the early 1960s. Engineer... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler

Directed By: Damien Chazelle

Critics Consensus: This emotionally gripping examination of a marriage on the rocks isn't always easy to watch, but Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling give performances of unusual depth and power.

Synopsis: Dean (Ryan Gosling) and Cindy (Michelle Williams) live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. To the casual observer, everything appears normal, if a bit... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Faith Wladyka, John Doman

Directed By: Derek Cianfrance

Critics Consensus: While not exactly exposing revelatory truths, The Ides of March is a supremely well-acted drama that moves at a measured, confident clip.

Synopsis: As Ohio's Democratic primary nears, charming Gov. Mike Morris (George Clooney) seems a shoo-in for the nomination over his opponent, Sen. Pullman (Michael Mantell). Morris'... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti

Directed By: George Clooney

Critics Consensus: Gosling commands the screen with a raw, electrifying performance.

Synopsis: A little knowledge is a dangerous thing -- an adage proven with shocking ramifications in Henry Bean's "The Believer." The film's stringent, intellectual approach to... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Ryan Gosling, Summer Phoenix, Glenn Fitzgerald, Theresa Russell

Directed By: Henry Bean

Critics Consensus: With action, comedy, romance, and a pair of marvelously matched stars, The Fall Guy might be the rare mainstream movie with something to entertain everyone.

Synopsis: He's a stuntman, and like everyone in the stunt community, he gets blown up, shot, crashed, thrown through windows and dropped from the highest of... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Stephanie Hsu

Directed By: David Leitch

Critics Consensus: Lars and the Real Girl could've so easily been a one-joke movie. But the talented cast, a great script, and direction never condescends to its character or the audience.

Synopsis: Extremely shy Lars (Ryan Gosling) finds it impossible to make friends or socialize. His brother (Paul Schneider) and sister-in-law (Emily Mortimer) worry about him, so... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Ryan Gosling, Paul Schneider, Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson

Directed By: Craig Gillespie

Critics Consensus: It never lives up to the first part of its title, but Crazy, Stupid, Love's unabashed sweetness -- and its terrifically talented cast -- more than make up for its flaws.

Synopsis: Cal Weaver (Steve Carell) is living the American dream. He has a good job, a beautiful house, great children and a beautiful wife, named Emily... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone

Directed By: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa

Critics Consensus: Ambitious to a fault, The Place Beyond the Pines finds writer/director Derek Cianfrance reaching for -- and often grasping -- thorny themes of family, fatherhood, and fate.

Synopsis: In upstate New York, two men (Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper), and later, their sons (Dane DeHaan, Emory Cohen) must deal with the unforeseen consequences of... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes, Rose Byrne

Directed By: Derek Cianfrance

Critics Consensus: Though Fracture's plot is somewhat implausible, the onscreen face-off between Gosling and Hopkins overshadows any faults.

Synopsis: Willy Beachum (Ryan Gosling), a hotshot prosecutor, is about to leave his post for a lucrative job at a private law firm when his boss... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn, Rosamund Pike

Directed By: Gregory Hoblit

Critics Consensus: A bleak but original indie, The Slaughter Rule benefits from outstanding performances by Ryan Gosling and David Morse.

Synopsis: Roy (Ryan Gosling) gets cut from his high school football team just days after his estranged father dies. For him, football is more than a... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Ryan Gosling, David Morse, David Cale, Eddie Spears

Directed By: Alex Smith, Andrew J. Smith

Critics Consensus: An inspirational crowd-pleaser with a healthy dose of social commentary, Remember the Titans may be predictable, but it's also well-crafted and features terrific performances.

Synopsis: In Virginia, high school football is a way of life, an institution revered, each game celebrated more lavishly than Christmas, each playoff distinguished more grandly... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Donald Faison, Wood Harris

Directed By: Boaz Yakin

Critics Consensus: It's hard not to admire its unabashed sentimentality, but The Notebook is too clumsily manipulative to rise above its melodramatic clichés.

Synopsis: In the 1940s South Carolina, mill worker Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling) and rich girl Allie (Rachel McAdams) are desperately in love. But her parents don't... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner, Gena Rowlands

Directed By: Nick Cassavetes

Critics Consensus: As visually sumptuous as it is narratively spartan, Terrence Malick's Song to Song echoes elements of the writer-director's recent work -- for better and for worse.

Synopsis: Set against the Austin, Texas, music scene, two entangled couples -- struggling songwriters Faye (Rooney Mara) and BV (Ryan Gosling), and music mogul Cook (Michael... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Ryan Gosling, Rooney Mara, Michael Fassbender, Natalie Portman

Directed By: Terrence Malick

Critics Consensus: Director Refn remains as visually stylish as ever, but Only God Forgives fails to add enough narrative smarts or relatable characters to ground its beautifully filmed depravity.

Synopsis: In Thailand, a drug trafficker's (Ryan Gosling) icy mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) sends him on a mission to avenge his older brother, who was killed... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vithaya Pansringarm, Rhatha Phongam

Directed By: Nicolas Winding Refn

Critics Consensus: It's well-acted, and the true story that inspired it offers plenty of drama -- which is why it's so frustrating that All Good Things is so clichéd and frustratingly ambiguous.

Synopsis: Heir to a real-estate dynasty, David Marks (Ryan Gosling) lives in the shadow of his father, Sanford (Frank Langella). He takes a chance at true... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst, Frank Langella, Lily Rabe

Directed By: Andrew Jarecki

Critics Consensus: The United States of Leland has its moments, but they're undermined by a muddled plot, unsympathetic characters, and frustratingly uneven performances.

Synopsis: A withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald (Ryan Gosling) is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, who also happened to be the brother... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Don Cheadle, Ryan Gosling, Chris Klein, Jena Malone

Directed By: Matthew Ryan Hoge

Critics Consensus: Though it's stylish and features a talented cast, Gangster Squad suffers from lackluster writing, underdeveloped characters, and an excessive amount of violence.

Synopsis: Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mobster Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) has 1949 Los Angeles in an iron fist, as he accumulates a fortune from drugs, prostitution and gambling.... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Nick Nolte, Robert Patrick

Directed By: Ruben Fleischer

Critics Consensus: A predictable police procedural that works better as a character study rather than a thriller.

Synopsis: The body of a young woman is found in a ditch in the woods of the small California coastal town of San Benito. A tenacious... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Sandra Bullock, Ryan Gosling, Michael Pitt, Agnes Bruckner

Directed By: Barbet Schroeder

Critics Consensus: A muddled brain-teaser, Stay has a solid cast and innovative visuals but little beneath the surface.

Synopsis: Sam Foster (Ewan McGregor), a psychiatrist, has a new patient, Henry Letham (Ryan Gosling), who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Ryan Gosling, Elizabeth Reaser

Directed By: Marc Forster