SummaryThe story of Danny Balint, who transformed himself from Jewish religious student to a rising star in the Neo-Fascist political movement.
Directed By:Henry Bean
Written By:Henry Bean, Mark Jacobson
The Believer
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Generally Favorable
75
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Generally Favorable
7.0
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
75
86% Positive
24 Reviews
24 Reviews
11% Mixed
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4% Negative
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100
Stunningly smart, genuinely disturbing film.
90
Persuasive, intelligent, and provocative.
User score
Generally Favorable
7.0
74% Positive
46 Ratings
46 Ratings
19% Mixed
12 Ratings
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6% Negative
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Aug 27, 2011
8
A disturbingly provocative study of racism and **** is a fascinating and powerful attempt at deconstructing the beliefs of these characters.Ryan Gosling is completely captivating and explosive in the lead ****'s one of the most unflinching and thought-provoking examinations of race issues in recent cinema.
Jul 11, 2016
7
Ryan Gosling gave a terrific performance in this original and interesting movie. Some of the events might not always seem believable but the movie was far from boring and was quite **** Believer may not be a classic but, it's still a good movie.
80
Bean has built a bonfire of contradictions and the ensuing conflagration illuminates a bit of the world.
75
An amazing and incendiary movie that dives straight into the rough waters of contradiction.
75
It is a challenging film, if not always a narratively cohesive one.
63
Gosling's performance is a stunner, although the story-telling is otherwise pedestrian. It is the movie's blessing and curse that it does not shy away from Danny's murderous, inexplicable contradictions — or explain them.
20
A bad movie -- really a terrible movie -- with a daring idea behind it. And it's had the sort of crummy luck that, no matter what you think of it, can get you steamed.
Aug 28, 2014
7
In an early career role for Ryan Gosling, he marks himself as most-promising leading man on the map. He is able to terrifyingly embody a **** and haunt you to no end.
Aug 3, 2013
7
i loved the movie,because it keeps you going from the start till the **** way of trying to be something opposite than you really are, to go against god, finding love and at the end paying wit his life for the choices that he made.Tells you how important are the everyday choices that we make and we are not aware of it. This movie is eyeopening and concentrate the awareness of the choices that we do, and their results.
Oct 10, 2024
6
On ne peut s’empêcher de faire le parallèle avec le fameux ‘American History X’, les deux films ont en effet à peu près la même fin bien politiquement correcte pour rassurer les gauchos, les bien pensants et les donneurs de leçons. Cela étant, contrairement à AHX totalement incohérent, cela tient tout de même assez bien la route dans Danny Balint : le protagoniste est juif et a reçu une éducation juive qu’il a rejetée brutalement… un cas de conscience et une colère qui en font non seulement un athée mais aussi un anti-sémite prêt à passer à l’acte et pas qu’un peu !… Un peu gros peut-être mais en tant que jeune sans repère et déséquilibré comme il l’est… pourquoi pas après tout ? Bref, ça se discute. Le film pose les bonnes questions : qu’est-ce qui conduit à l’anti-sémitisme ? quelles raisons ? quels raisonnements ? On suit avec intérêt le combat intérieur qui fait rage chez cet intrigant Danny Balint, ses interrogations et ses doutes. Reste tout de même cette infraction à la logique la plus élémentaire : le refus ou le dégoût d’une éducation religieuse mène à l’athéisme, pas au désir d’éradication de ses pratiquants. Le film exagère un peu trop donc, voire carrément en fait mais reste intéressant malgré tout.
