At first glance, The Believer looks like another of those hard-hitting, near-exploitative films about neo-Nazi thuggery. It's got the worryingly charismatic lead you think you know from American History X and Romper Stomper, opening with Ryan Gosling putting his size nines in. But it unfolds quite differently: Danny Balint is actually immersed in what he claims to hate (Judaism), making Henry Bean's film less a "thriller" about neo-Nazism than a subtle drama about faith's complexities - - and a gripping, intelligent one at that.
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