"The Nice Guys" is a dark comedy that takes place in a time in which Kennedy is dead, poverty is on the rise, corruption is rampant, the Hollywood It's not until an actual villain (Matt Bomer) shows up more than an hour into the piece that you realize that the movie didn't have one before then (although. Ryan Gosling is great in this film, while I do feel like Russell. Chris Stuckmann reviews The Nice Guys, starring Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Angourie Rice, Matt Bomer, Margaret Qualley, Keith David, Kim Basinger.

The Nice Guys Photograph: Daniel McFadden/AP. Before our emotionally literate, twenty-first century world invented the idea of the "bromance", we had Black starts his movie with a bravura pre-credit sequence: a cheeky kid sneaks into his parents' bedroom in the middle of the night and steals a porn. From left, Ryan Gosling, Daisy Tahan, Angourie Rice and Russell Crowe in Shane Black's "The Nice Guys."Credit.

The Nice Guys

If Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang were a hot, unconventional radio single (think anything off of Carly Rae Jepsen's E-MO-TION) then The Nice Guys is like a really great B-side (think any of E-MO-TION's bonus tracks). A. vibe that's been bungled by many other filmmakers but is channeled to great effect here. Cannes Film Review: 'The Nice Guys'. For about the first six minutes of The Nice Guys, it looks as though Shane Black, Joel Silver and Warner Bros. have managed to recapture the rudely funny brashness of the Lethal Weapon series and Kiss Kiss, Bang. However, the Black movie that Nice Guys bears the strongest resemblance to is that of his. 'The Nice Guys' makes it clear once again that Shane Black is the king of action comedies, with some help from Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling. Of all the films Black has written or directed, The Nice Guys might very well be the best showcase of exactly what he brings to a film and its cast.

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The Nice Guys has a nice feel: just slick enough to keep from falling apart, just brutal enough to keep from seeming inconsequential. Nothing they do is particularly ingenious, but their relaxed rhythms are the key to the movie's charm. They know that on some level we enjoy the idea that they're slumming.

The Nice Guys is no different. In the days following the death of her niece, Mrs Glenn (Lois Smith) is convinced she's seen Misty alive. The Nice Guys movie review: Both Russell Crowe as the washed-up, rough-edged bouncer-on-hire Healy, and Ryan Gosling as the cynical, heavy-drinking private investigator March are good and cleverly cast. The US president who fought a half-hearted.