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<\/p>\nThe Believer, the “amazing” forgotten drama starring Ryan Gosling, has landed a new streaming home in the UK. Released in 2001, the film stars Gosling as a young Jewish man named Daniel Balint, following him as he becomes a neo-Nazi. <\/p>\n
Written and directed by Henry Bean, the film is based on a story by Bean and Mark Jacobson, which in turn is loosely based on the true story of Dan Burros, a member of the American Nazi Party, who was revealed to be Jewish by a New York Times reporter.<\/p>\n
The synopsis reads: “Twelve-year-old Danny Balint is a precocious intellectual, arguing with the rabbis at the yeshiva, and running away from gentile toughs on the street. <\/p>\n
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Related: Best streaming services<\/a><\/p>\n “By twenty-two, he is a skin-head, living alone, browsing militia movement websites…and developing ever more complex and fervent anti-Semitic theories.” <\/p>\n Joining Gosling on the cast are Waltzing with Brando actor Billy Zane, Black Widow actor Theresa Russell, and Esther Kahn’s Summer Phoenix. <\/p>\n The Believer was recently added to Prime Video in the UK, meaning subscribers can stream the film now. <\/p>\n Proving to be a hit among critics, the film has an 82% rating on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> from 95 reviews, with critics praising The Believer for how it handles its subject matter. <\/p>\n “People have a right to make godless films. Bean’s made one, and it’s as brilliant as it is humane,” penned The Independent<\/a>. <\/p>\n Fireworks Pictures<\/p>\n Related: Ryan Gosling confirms “discussions have been had” for Marvel role<\/a><\/p>\n The Oregonian said: “A deep and extraordinary film that isn’t afraid to look evil in the face — or, for that matter, to acknowledge that evil can be more complicated and even attractive than we’d want to admit.”<\/p>\n Reeling Reviews<\/a> wrote: “Henry Bean’s thoughtful screenplay provides no easy answers, but offers a compelling investigation of faith versus intellect.”<\/p>\n “A fireball of contradictory ideas that will pin you to your seat,” wrote Rolling Stone, while Variety said: “Those who see it will be struck by the adroitness with which it addresses touchy issues.”<\/p>\n The Believer is now streaming on Prime Video in the UK. The new edition of Living Legends, a 100-page all-colour celebration of Sir David Attenborough, is here! Buy Sir David Attenborough in newsagents or online<\/a>.<\/p>\n Reporter, Digital Spy<\/p>\n Harriet is a freelance news writer specialising in TV<\/a> and movies<\/a> at Digital Spy.\u00a0<\/p>\n A horror enthusiast, she joined Digital Spy after working on her own horror website, reviewing films and focusing largely on feminism in the genre.\u00a0<\/p>\n In her spare time, Harriet paints and produces mixed-media art. She graduated from the University of Kingston with a BA in fine art, where she specialised in painting. She also has an MA in journalism from Birkbeck University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Believer, the “amazing” forgotten drama starring Ryan Gosling, has landed a new streaming home in the UK.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[131124,1105,174082,1107,93,61,60,1135,270,174081],"class_list":{"0":"post-393089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-collection-latest-news","9":"tag-content-type-news","10":"tag-contentid-093626b3-7e7b-41c7-820f-36670bdbc7cb","11":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-locale-gb","16":"tag-movies","17":"tag-shorttitle-ryan-goslings-amazing-forgotten-drama-lands-uk-streaming"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"the](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/6e709c12-00a1-409c-ae0a-548e18573f02.jpg\" "\\"The")
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