My opinion: People Magazine never idly “wonders” if two people have broken up. Some People Mag editor has heard a rumor or some gossip somewhere, but the breakup story isn’t quite ready to publish without a nod from a publicist, so they just publish a story like this – “Are Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes on the Rocks?” What’s even weirder/funnier/sadder is that beyond the breakup speculation, the article is just an excuse to quote from some of the horrible reviews Ryan’s directorial debut has gotten:

While Ryan Gosling promotes his directorial debut, Lost River, at the Cannes Film Festival this week, one person has been conspicuously absent: his girlfriend of three years, Eva Mendes – who happens to costar in the film. Gosling, 33, hit the red carpet instead with Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks, who also appears in the trippy movie, which is set in an urban wasteland.

Critical response to the film was largely negative, with Time’s Richard Corliss calling it the most enthusiastically derided entry so far at this year’s festival. Another critic, The Telegraph’s Tim Robey, blasted it as a “crapocalypse.”

Still, added Corliss, “give some credit to Gosling … for his mad mash-up of horror and social statement, crackpot fantasy and Sundance-style meandering.” And Anne Thompson of Indiewire praised it as an “impressive impressionistic well-wrought debut.”

Meanwhile, Mendes, 40, has been keeping a low-profile, and the pair haven’t been photographed together since last November. But in February Mendes appeared to playfully shoot down breakup rumors, telling Ellen DeGeneres that her Valentine’s Day plans involved “watching The Notebook or something.”

The couple, who struck up a romance on the set of their 2012 drama The Place Beyond the Pines, have been tight-lipped about their relationship, but in February 2012 Mendes told Marie Claire that Gosling is “a dream costar,” adding, “He’s amazing.” And in May Gosling was photographed at the premiere of White Shadows wearing a necklace reading “Hugo” – the name of Mendes’s beloved dog.

[From People]

At this point… yeah, I really do want Ryan and Eva to break up. Is that mean? So be it. It would be one thing if they were a fun couple and they got pap’d all the time and they said stupid stuff about each other in the press. At least that would be interesting to cover. But they’re rarely seen together lately, Eva is always super bitchy about the relationship whenever she’s asked about it interviews, and the veil has been lifted on Ryan – he’s gone from The Perfect Boyfriend ™ to The Try-Hard Hipster. They just need to break up so they can rebrand themselves. It will save his career. I think hers is irreparable. Which is probably why (my opinion) she’s been hanging on so hard.

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