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What's Ryan Gosling's secret to his on-screen poise, his ability to disarm and provoke merely by his laconic presence?

The face is hardly wrinkled and the long blond locks appear unchanged, but Brad Pitt, who will turn 49 in December, is increasingly preoccupied with the passage of time and the thought that his rarefied place in movies is fleeting.

There's no missing the venomous cynicism in "Killing Them Softly," a grimly witty crime thriller that works in a mode familiar to fans of both Quentin Tarantino and "The Sopranos."
The face is hardly wrinkled and the long blond locks appear unchanged, but Brad Pitt, who will turn 49 in December, is increasingly preoccupied with the passage of time and the thought that his rarefied place in movies is fleeting.
Writer-director Andrew Dominik's "Killing Them Softly" is an incredibly stylish genre exercise set in the world of mobsters, junkies and lowlifes, but it's also trying incredibly hard to be About Something.
Brad Pitt is making the movie star thing look darn easy.
The Cannes Film Festival got its biggest shot of celebrity adrenaline yet on Tuesday, even if it was only half the dose some were expecting.

The Cannes Film Festival got its biggest shot of celebrity adrenaline yet on Tuesday, even if it was only half the dose some were expecting.
"Ryan, without terribly much trouble, could be the world's most ginormous box-office juggernaut type of thing," says Mendelsohn, whom Gosling recommended for the movie and who'll co-star in Gosling's soon-to-begin-filming directorial debut, "How to Catch a Monster." "From what I can gather, his interests are a lot more nuanced."