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rickay says...

5 years ago

I liked this movie, it seems like it wasn’t a big budget movie but instead relied on good performances. A gritty script mixed with tragedy and sadness made this a movie worth watching with enough action for the guys

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Saint Pauly says...

6 years ago

_Galveston_ looks good but it's deserted and uneven. It's a nice place to visit but you wouldn't want to live there--or really even visit, truth be told.

French actress turned director Mélanie Laurent makes a film that has a certain amount of ruddy style but her screenplay lacks structure with misplaced plot points, a lopsided narrative arc, and obscure character motivation. It's difficult to get into a film with a script that pushes the viewer away. More's the pity.

On a side note, I'm pleased to see Elle Fanning mature as an actress. She still has a ways to go, but her performance here is remarkably better than that of, say, 2011's _Twixt_. As for Ben Foster, the only way he could act badly would be obnoxiously drunk in a bar, but never on screen.

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fiomamyblue says...

4 years ago

The Galveston movie was born from the creator of True Detective, it has this beautiful song on his soundtrack, it has a plot on which you can invent wonders, that daughter of angels Elle Fanning plays.
It could have everything, but it has nothing. A screenplay written with your feet.
Basically, there are just been shit.

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jekyl6669 says...

5 years ago

Grim, fatalistic crime drama. One with knockout performances from its leads. It's a very flawed, very human story, where characters seek redemption, but their harsh realities work overtime to keep them down. Laurent makes an impressive directing turn here with this noir tale.

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Spiritualized Kaos says...

5 years ago

Hard film where the rot of deep white America is well reflected as well as how shabby and ruthless is organized crime in the average American cities.

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Lee Brown Barrow says...

5 years ago

Foster and Fanning are great, and the movie as a whole is okay. However, it's a fairly miserable experience, and with a lead character that's tough to like, there is patience needed to make it to the end.

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