Storyline
A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.
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Cast
Sala Baker, Russell Crowe, Kim Basinger, Keith David, Lois Smith, Robert Downey Jr., Ryan Gosling, Matt Bomer, Michael Beasley, Ty Simpkins, Daisy Tahan, Beau Knapp, Yaya DaCosta, Greg Lindsay, Tammi Arender, Ryan Powers, Yvonne Zima, Rachele Brooke Smith, Gary Weeks, Steve Wilder, Hannibal Buress, Angourie Rice, Hank Quillen, Terence Rosemore, Cayla Brady, Jack Kilmer, Margaret Qualley, Carson Meyer, Michelle Rivera, Meredith Berg, Murielle Telio, Gil Gerard, Lance Valentine Butler, Lexi Johnson, Matthew Warzel, Chloe Hurst, Karrueche Tran, Dominic Bagarozzi, Joanne Spracklen, Rebecca Dalton Rusk, Joshua Hoover, Maddie Compton, Garrett Carpenter, Gary Wolf, Charles Green, Milo Wesley, Adriana Karras, Lauren Marini, Ward Roberts, Lauren Bair, Zarah Kulczycki, Hana Yuka Sano
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Reviews
100
Ryan Gosling in a physical action-comedy? Whoever thought of the idea should be crowned genius of the year. With dynamite timing and uproarious gestures, Gosling mines his diverse abilities and becomes a blast in The Nice Guys.
91
The Nice Guys, which the screenwriter also directed, is the best of Black’s films. It is eccentrically, sometimes broadly funny, with top-notch performances from Crowe and Gosling and a pitch-perfect sense of timing to help smooth over some of the script’s fault lines and blind spots.
90
The Nice Guys is an ultra-violent burlesque, the sort of cheerfully hostile buddy bash that’s been a staple since the ’80s, only this one is singularly clever about its own triviality, and it offers the scruffy pleasure of seeing two great actors dial down their gravitas with style.
80
[Black] creates some outrageously contrived and protracted shootouts and one or two good old fashioned action explosions. But he also keeps the dialogue cracking along.
80
Think of The Nice Guys as candy noir: all the key ingredients from mysteries such as Chinatown and The Long Goodbye poured into a tall glass, then topped up with sugar syrup, a spritz of club soda, a sprig of mint and an ironic paper parasol.
