All Good Things

Ryan Gosling is having quite a year. "Blue Valentine" is a critical hit, gathering him a a Golden Globe nomination and a shot at an Oscar nod. Now he backs it up with another film in which he does some pretty good character work, "All Good Things". Gosling plays David Marks, loosely based on a real psychopath who has up to now gotten away with a lot of the illegal activity he perpetrated. Gosling ages several decades as he stands trial for a murder that's hard to prove but may be related to the disappearance of his wife (Kirsten Dunst) and another friend.
These real life murders are an enigma as is much of the movie. The film steadfastly refuses to offer the audience much in terms of detail or motivation. That makes for about an hour and forty-five minutes of some confusing, non-committal storytelling. Things clear up in the end so if you have the patience you might find the experience worthwhile. But by the time they got to an explanation they had lost me. Too much brooding and shadowy innuendo for me. Still, Gosling and Dunst are pretty good in a fair-to-middlin' movie.