- By Caryn James
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- March 28, 2013 9:20 AM
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Derek Cianfrance's The
Place Beyond the Pines is a giant ambitious triptych -- Ryan Gosling
dominates the first part, Bradley Cooper the second, and two younger actors when
the story leaps ahead in time -- and this trenchant view of fathers, sons and
the determinism of class is two-thirds of a terrific film. If the last part
seems a letdown, it's only because the first two work so powerfully to create
believable, fraught, opposite lives occupying the same time and place.