The Old Man and the Gun | September 28, 2018 (limited) | David Lowery | Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek, Danny Glover

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Not sure about awards yet but this could make a nice $20M+ if Fox Searchlight plays their cards right.

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https://www.indiewire.com/2018/08/the-old-man-and-the-gun-review-robert-redford-telluride-1201999420/

 

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While Redford’s nearly wordless performance in “All is Lost” provided an opportunity to contemplate the expressive contours of the actor’s face, writer-director David Lowery takes that hook into overdrive, transforming the potential for a cheeky nostalgia trip into a bonafide crowdpleaser on its own terms. Utilizing a grainy 16mm aesthetic and a period-appropriate soundtrack, Lowery time-travels to a long-dormant aesthetic so well that the movie may as well be a relic of the era it salutes. The filmmaker has been channeling late-’70s cinema ever since his expressionistic crime saga “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints,” but “The Old Man & the Gun” eschews pastiche for a sweet, affable character study that resurrects Redford’s original star power with a wet kiss. The entire picture amounts to a low-key cinematic resurrection.

 

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Based on these reviews this might end up as the best final live-action film role for an elder statesman of acting since Paul Newman in Road to Perdition

Edited September 1, 2018 by 4815162342

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Looking forward to what could be RR’s final performance. Also, I’m seeing Sissy Spacek everywhere it seems.