The Greatest Ryan Gosling Movie You’ve Never Seen Has a Shot at Redemption at New Streaming Home

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Ryan Gosling in The Place Beyond the Pines (2012)

Published Jan 31, 2026, 4:01 PM EST

Rahul Malhotra is a Weekend News Writer for Collider. From Francois Ozon to David Fincher, he'll watch anything once.

He has been writing for Collider for over two years, and has covered everything from Marvel to the Oscars, and Marvel at the Oscars. He also writes obsessively about the box office, charting the many hits and misses that are released weekly, and how their commercial performance shapes public perception. In his time at Collider, he has also helped drive diversity by writing stories about the multiple Indian film industries, with a goal to introduce audiences to a whole new world of cinema.

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A little over a decade ago, after breaking out with the hit film The Notebook, Ryan Gosling decided to dedicate himself to smaller-scale projects. He developed a strong creative partnership with director Nicolas Winding Refn, with whom he made Drive and Only God Forgives, and with Derek Cianfrance, with whom he worked together on Blue Valentine and The Place Beyond the Pines. It was during the production of The Place Beyond the Pines that Gosling met his wife, Eva Mendes. The movie also featured Bradley Cooper and completed its theatrical run in 2012 without generating the kind of critical acclaim it deserved. It now has a shot at redemption when it debuts on the Peacock streaming service this February.

An epic story about fathers and sons, The Place Beyond the Pines featured Gosling as a criminal and Cooper as an ambitious police officer. The film was produced on a reported budget of $15 million, and grossed nearly $50 million at the worldwide box office. It also featured Ben Mendelsohn, Rose Byrne, Mahershala Ali, and Ray Liotta — all hugely admired in their own right. The epic crime drama is now sitting at a "certified fresh" 79% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the critics' consensus reads, "Ambitious to a fault, The Place Beyond the Pines finds writer/director Derek Cianfrance reaching for — and often grasping — thorny themes of family, fatherhood, and fate."

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Cianfrance went on to direct the drama film The Light Between Oceans, which, incidentally, brought together another couple — Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander. He then made the HBO series I Know This Much Is True, starring Mark Ruffalo. His latest film was the true-crime comedy Roofman, starring Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst. Gosling has since embraced the idea of doing more mainstream movies, and starred in the Netflix action film The Gray Man, the action-comedy The Fall Guy, and the satirical comedy Barbie, for which he earned an Oscar nomination. This year, he'll star in Phil Lord and Chris Miller's sci-fi adventure film Project Hail Mary. He's also set to headline Star Wars: Starfighter, directed by Shawn Levy and slated for a 2027 release.