S.W.’s Scores
Continuity
+4
Entertainment
+5
Rewatchability
+3
CastRyan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks
StreamingMax, AppleTV+
S.W.’s Verdict
Gosling stares at things for 90 minutes and then crushes a man's skull in an elevator. Refn treats silence like dialogue and violence like punctuation. The soundtrack does emotional work the script refuses to. Either you sync with the rhythm or you wonder why nothing's happening.