Ryan Gosling’s Typical Vibe
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Ryan Gosling has 27 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 4 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Notebook.
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Project Hail Mary
2026 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Prime Video · Included

Fracture
2007 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

The Big Short
2015 · Movie · Actor
Top 5%Paramount+ · Included

Crazy, Stupid, Love.
2011 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Max · Included

Lars and the Real Girl
2007 · Movie · Actor
Top 11%Prime Video · Included

The Gray Man
2022 · Movie · Actor
Top 13%Netflix · Included

Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.
Dir. Damien Chazelle · With Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend

Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
Dir. Denis Villeneuve · With Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas

An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths.
Dir. Nick Cassavetes · With Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, Gena Rowlands

Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientific knowledge and unorthodox ideas to save everything on Earth from extinction.
Dir. Phil Lord, Christopher Miller · With Ryan Gosling, Sandra Hüller, James Ortiz

A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put him away. However, there are surprises for both around every corner, and, as a suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse is played out, each must manipulate and outwit the other.
Dir. Gregory Hoblit · With Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn
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 to a pretty neighbor named Irene and her young son, Benicio. When Irene's husband gets out of jail, he enlists Driver's help in a million-dollar heist. The job goes horribly wrong, and Driver must risk his life to protect Irene and Benicio from the vengeful masterminds behind the robbery.
Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn · With Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston

The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.
Dir. Adam McKay · With Steve Carell, Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling

Cal Weaver is living the American dream. He has a good job, a beautiful house, great children and a beautiful wife, named Emily. Cal's seemingly perfect life unravels, however, when he learns that Emily has been unfaithful and wants a divorce. Over 40 and suddenly single, Cal is adrift in the fickle world of dating. Enter, Jacob Palmer, a self-styled player who takes Cal under his wing and teaches him how to be a hit with the ladies.
Dir. Glenn Ficarra, John Requa · With Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore

A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.
Dir. Shane Black · With Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Angourie Rice

Extremely shy Lars finds it impossible to make friends or socialize. His brother and sister-in-law worry about him, so when he announces that he has a girlfriend he met on the Internet, they are overjoyed. But Lars' new lady is a life-size plastic woman. On the advice of a doctor, his family and the rest of the community go along with his delusion.
Dir. Craig Gillespie · With Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider

Fresh off an almost career-ending accident, stuntman Colt Seavers has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life while still doing his day job.
Dir. David Leitch · With Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson

When a shadowy CIA agent uncovers damning agency secrets, he's hunted across the globe by a sociopathic rogue operative who's put a bounty on his head.
Dir. Joe Russo, Anthony Russo · With Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas
Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans.
Dir. Greta Gerwig · With Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera

A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.
Dir. Damien Chazelle · With Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke

A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.
Dir. Derek Cianfrance · With Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes

Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in their marriage.
Dir. Derek Cianfrance · With Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, John Doman

A hardcore US racist skinhead who, because of his intelligence, leads a gang dedicated to fighting the enemy: the supposed American-Jewish conspiracy for domination. However, he's hiding a secret: he's Jewish-born, a brilliant scholar whose questioning of the tenets of his faith has left him angry and confused, turning against those who he thinks have a tragic history of their own making.
Dir. Henry Bean · With Ryan Gosling, Summer Phoenix, Theresa Russell

Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his parents. As reality starts to contradict fact, Sam spirals into an unstable mental state. Then he finds a clue as to how and when Henry may try to kill himself, and races to try to stop him.
Dir. Marc Forster · With Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Ryan Gosling

Dirty tricks stand to soil an ambitious young press spokesman's idealism in a cutthroat presidential campaign where 'victory' is relative.
Dir. George Clooney · With Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan Dunne leads a secret life of addiction that the majority of his students will never know. But things change when a troubled student Drey makes a startling discovery of his secret life, causing a tenuous bond between the two that could either end disastrously or provide a catalyst of hope.
Dir. Ryan Fleck · With Ryan Gosling, Shareeka Epps, Anthony Mackie

A withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, who also happened to be the brother of his girlfriend, Becky. As the community struggles to deal with the killing, Pearl Madison, a teacher at the prison, decides to write about Leland's case. Meanwhile, others affected by the murder, including Becky and her sister, Julie, must contend with their own problems.
Dir. Matthew Ryan Hoge · With Don Cheadle, Ryan Gosling, Chris Klein

Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and — if he has his way — every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It’s enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop… except, perhaps, for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O’Mara and Jerry Wooters who come together to try to tear Cohen’s world apart.
Dir. Ruben Fleischer · With Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn

Tenacious homicide detective Cassie Mayweather and her still-green partner are working a murder case, attempting to profile two malevolently brilliant young men: cold, calculating killers whose dark secrets might explain their crimes.
Dir. Barbet Schroeder · With Sandra Bullock, Ben Chaplin, Ryan Gosling

Newly-discovered facts, court records and speculation are used to elaborate the true love story and murder mystery of the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history.
Dir. Andrew Jarecki · With Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst, Frank Langella

In this modern love story set against the Austin, Texas music scene, two entangled couples — struggling songwriters Faye and BV, and music mogul Cook and the waitress whom he ensnares — chase success through a rock ‘n’ roll landscape of seduction and betrayal.
Dir. Terrence Malick · With Michael Fassbender, Ryan Gosling, Rooney Mara
Billy, a single mother of two, is led into a macabre underworld while her teenage son, Bones, discovers a secret road leading to an underwater town. Both Billy and Bones must dive deep into the mystery if their family is to survive.
Dir. Ryan Gosling · With Christina Hendricks, Iain De Caestecker, Saoirse Ronan

Julian, who runs a Thai boxing club as a front organization for his family's drug smuggling operation, is forced by his mother Crystal to find and kill the individual responsible for his brother's recent death.
Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn · With Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vithaya Pansringarm
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