Put Ryan Gosling in front of a camera, and there’s not much he can’t do. Transform into a self-hating Jewish neo-Nazi? No problem. Haughtily break down the 2007 housing collapse using Jenga pieces? You got it. Have a believably loving relationship with a lifelike sex doll? Hold his beer; he’s going to work. For the last 20+ years, Gosling has employed his divinely sculpted good looks you can’t buy, the prepossessing charm you can’t teach, and his impeccable acting talent you can’t duplicate to make himself an amorphous vessel for characters to take shape in. And the 20 best Ryan Gosling movies prove that and more. What comes with being able to do almost anything on screen is an uncanny ability to make audiences believe anything they see. Would a man send a letter each day to a lost lover? Probably not, but he made us believe every guy should do so in The Notebook. There’s no way to find an ounce of empathy for an iconoclastic Jewish neo-Nazi, right? See what Gosling did in The Believer, and then get back to me. A drug-addicted teacher with a heart of gold (Half Nelson); a stunt car driver turned assassin (Drive); a criminal with a bondage kink, and mommy issues (Only God Forgives). Those are all people Gosling has been and (successfully) convinced us could exist in the same world we do. This list of the 20 best Ryan Gosling movies is what made him a legend and made you a… Click below to read the full story from Men’s Health
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The 20 Best Ryan Gosling Movies Ranked From Favorites to Obsessions
