Clickonline writes: "One name is conspicuously absent from the above list and that’s Bradley Cooper. Always better in an ensemble, when his role gets foregrounded here the film threatens to shudder to a halt. Partly it’s the fact that he has one of the deeper roles in the film but he also suffers terribly in comparison to the charisma machine that is Gosling."
Film 212 of my 500 Film Challenge. An ambitious, if not entirely successful crime-drama starring Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper and Eva Mendes.
Jeremy of The Daily Rotation wrote, "2013 has without a doubt been one of the most diverse years for films. Normally, a year in film operates on a lopsided scale, with most of the Oscar bait coming out towards the end of the year, with a few summer tent-poles occupying most of the summer and then the leftovers get dumped out around January through April. But not this year."
Jeremy of The Daily Rotation wrote, "This year we’ve been gifted with some great tracks by some of the industry’s best, plus some new-comers or remotely unknowns have managed to sneak in and deliver where it counts. I know the year isn’t over with just yet, but I’ve thought long and hard about this list of my top five favorite movie soundtracks of 2013. There are a few more films coming out this year that could potentially make this list, but I’ve always been one to listen to a complete soundtrack for a month or two before allowing it to grace such a list, which means that this post wouldn’t be able to run until February or March if I continued to go by those standards."
