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"Only God Forgives" Reviews Are In, Kristin Scott Thomas Probably Just Won The Oscar

While most of America is eagerly awaiting summer blockbusters like Pacific Rim, The Lone Ranger and Grown Ups 2: Breaking Dawn (Go USA!), we here at NewNowNext have been counting down the days until the premiere of Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives. And not because he won Best Director for the former film at Cannes two years back, or because he puts together one helluva soundtrack, or, perhaps more shockingly, because it stars the stupid hot and stupid talented Ryan Gosling.

Oh no friends, we are excited to see Kristin Scott Thomas.

Just look at the clip above, which we ran earlier this week, and be astonished at the talent of Miss Scott Thomas. We're not totally sure what KST's character's name is in the film, but we're gonna assume Baddest Bitch in the Game.

So, with the film premiering this evening in Cannes and reviews slowly rolling in, we were eager to see if the lovely, talented, and cinematically bilingual Miss Thomas (She was robbed of an Oscar nom for I Have Loved You So Long we tell ya!) would deliver on the promise of the movie's previously released clips and trailers.

Turns out, she's even better than we hoped.

Check out some of the reviews below.

"Our overall disappointment aside, there are a lot of good elements. Kristen Scott Thomas, as advertised in the sneak preview, is wonderful as the snarling, acid anti-mother, and every one of her scenes crackles with the sheer electricity of her venality and corruption. But everything about her, from her image-upending look to her already-famous withering, foulmouthed language, to the way she can twitch on Julian’s line by offering him motherhood like a cookie, is so enlivening that we really miss her when she’s gone, and there’s not actually a huge amount of her (the dinner scene shown as a preview is probably her biggest moment)." - Indiewire

"The wallpaper emotes more than Ryan Gosling does in Only God Forgives, an exercise in supreme style and minimal substance from Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn. In retrospect, the controlled catatonia of Gosling’s previous perfs is nothing compared to the balled fist he plays here, a cipher easily upstaged by Kristin Scott Thomas’ lip-smacking turn as a vindictive she-wolf who travels to Bangkok seeking atonement for the death of her favorite son. As hyper-aggressive revenge fantasies go, it’s curious to see one so devoid of feeling, a veniality even Drive fans likely won’t be inclined to forgive." - Variety

"Gosling is not doing anything we haven’t seen from him before, but his sullen introspection is again perfectly attuned to the director’s sensibility, with moments of clairvoyant contemplation of his future suggesting a spiritual dimension to Julian. Pansringarm brings enough distinctive quirks to a stoical role to make him an original, morally ambiguous antagonist. And the bewitching Scott Thomas makes mesmerizing work of every minute of her screen time as a vicious screen bitch for the ages." - Hollywood Reporter

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