The 5 Worst Ryan Gosling Movies, According To Rotten Tomatoes

Throughout Ryan Gosling’s extensive and impressive film resumé, one movie is, according to critics, his very worst — and the film that earns that “honor” is the 2005 indie flick “Stay.” The baffling thing about “Stay,” to be frank, is the star power both behind and in front of the camera; it’s directed by Marc Forster (“Monster’s Ball,” “Stranger Than Fiction,” and “World War Z,” among others) and written by former “Game of Thrones” showrunner David Benioff. Alongside Gosling, the cast includes Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, the late Bob Hoskins, Janeane Garofolo, and more. So what went wrong here? Apparently, quite a lot.
The movie centers on McGregor’s character Dr. Sam Foster, a psychiatrist who begins the film by telling his girlfriend Lila Culpepper (Watts) he has a new patient named Henry Letham (Gosling). As Sam learns, Henry is a tough case — he’s suspicious of Sam due to the fact that his usual doctor Beth Levy (Garofalo) went on leave without much notice, and he experiences hallucinations and hears voices. As Sam looks into Henry’s background, he discovers increasingly disturbing things about Henry’s life and past and starts to lose his own grip on reality. That’s where the movie’s twist ending comes into play, and it’s … not great, to say the least.
Gosling gives “Stay” his all — as he always does — but it couldn’t save the film, which earned a dismal 26% on Rotten Tomatoes with a critical consensus that reads, “A muddled brain-teaser, ‘Stay’ has a solid cast and innovative visuals but little beneath the surface.” The movie is, as of this writing, available on both YouTubeTV and Tubi, if you’re really determined to work your way through all of Gosling’s movies.
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