| Cast |
Christina Hendricks, Iain de Caestecker, Saoirse Ronan, Matt Smith, Ben Mendelsohn, Eva Mendes |
| Director |
Ryan Gosling |
| Screenplay | Ryan Gosling |
| Music | Johnny Jewel |
| Cinematography | Benoît Debie |
| Editing | Nico Leunen, Valdis Ókjarsdottir |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, Datasat |
| Soundtrack | Available |
| SA distributor | Ster-Kinekor |
| Made in | 2014 |
| Produced by | Bold Films, Marc Platt Productions, Phantasma |
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| Genre | Horror |
| Language | Strong, fairly frequent |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | None |
| Violence | Strong, frequent |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None |
| Comments | |
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| Suggested age limit 17 + |
Positive messages |
Positive role models |
Violence |
Sex |
Language |
Consumerism |
Drinking, drugs, smoking |
| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Theresa Smith  Gosling will drive you around the river bend... | 5 |  |
| Die Burger Laetitia Pople Donker sprokie verloor sy weg. | 5 | |
| Cape Times Todd McCarthy Off-kilter dreamscape. | 5 | |
| Metacritic.com 21 critics | 8 |  |
| Rottentomatoes critics 62 critics | 9 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Lost River suggests that debuting writer-director Ryan Gosling may have a bright future as a filmmaker, but it doesn't hold together well enough to recommend on its own merit. | 6 | |
| Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics   | 10 | |
| CommonSenseMedia Staff evaluation Stylized drama about poverty has some disturbing violence. | 5 | |
What the People say | ||
| Metacritic.com users 33 users | 15 |  |
| Rottentomatoes users 2498 users | 10 | |
| Internet 6363 Netizens Messy, Void of soul. | 12 |  |
Average .. 41% | 8 | |