
3 September 2020
Galveston (2018)
The writer of True Detective, Nic Pizzolatto, and director Mélanie Laurent, who you’ll see playing Alice in Mia and the White Lion (landing on Showmax on 24 September 2020), are behind this dark, cerebral crime drama.
Roy is a hit man who kills his would-be assassins before they can kill him, and then goes on the run to escape his mob boss. Ben Foster’s Roy is more nuanced than your average action-movie hero, as the Sydney Morning Herald says: “It’s uncompromising but at the end, it does leave some room for hope and Foster, in his intense, contained way, makes Roy’s redemption highly plausible unexpectedly poignant.”
Along the way, Roy rescues Rocky (Elle Fanning), who has been kept captive, and together they try to outrun the demons from their past, as well as Roy’s boss.
ReelViews writes, “Bleak and gripping, Galveston offers a compelling experience for those who don’t demand pure escapism and are willing to sample the darker side of cinema”, and critics have universally praised Foster and Fanning’s “powerhouse performances”.
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