Ride or Die is well-made and engrossing, despite its occasionally meandering pace.
Ride or Die(彼女)
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Japan · 2021
2h 22m
Director Ryuichi Hiroki
Starring Kiko Mizuhara, Honami Sato, Yoko Maki, Anne Suzuki
Genre Drama, Romance, Thriller
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Rei has been in love with Nanae since she was a high school student. Her love for Nanae is so strong that she even kills a man for her. When Rei learns that Nanae has been living under the shadow of her abusive husband, she murders him and the two begin a life on the road. Soon, their feelings for each other catch fire.
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It’s a shaggy and distended portrait of friendship that pinballs through time as freely as it does between genres, and a few too many of the 140-minute story’s frequent detours wind up in dead ends, but Ride or Die retains enough forward momentum to roll across even its least successful chapters because of how stubbornly Hiroki refuses to keep score between these characters.
Ride or Die strikes some strange tones, and features some questionable motives. But that just supports the world Rei and Nanae have crafted for themselves. It’s messy and imperfect, and in that way, it feels unnervingly real.
Although the journey feels rather drawn out in the film’s 142-minute running time, and is strewn with one ear-splitting brawl too many, the mystery of each protagonist’s true intentions, and the unpredictability of their course of action, keep tensions on a continuous simmer.
The New York Times by Natalia Winkelman
The movie gracefully captures the rhythms of intimacy, how it deepens quicker in stolen time. But even as they develop a kinship, the women themselves remain ciphers.
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