The Place Beyond the Pines

From the trailers and what not I was expecting a pair of concurrent story lines.  Instead you the movie explores three chapters.  First with Ryan Gosling's stunt motocross rider turned bank robber.  Then Bradley Cooper's cop turned hero.  And finally jumping forward 15 years (with only Eva Mendes character of the adult actors actually looking like she's aged a decade and a half) to follow the respective sons of the first two...

Gorgeous looking movie.  And Gosling, Cooper and Mendes turn in top notch work.  As does Mahershala Ali, in a small but key role, as a man raising another man's son...