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By Christian Gallichio (84) for The Playlist (3,871) on 16 Oct 2018

What we are left with is far from a perfect film, but Laurent is a confident director who elevates the pulpy plot of Pizzolato’s novel into…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for indieWire (3,631) on 16 Oct 2018

It takes far too long for Galveston to emerge from the novocaine of its various clichés and allow us to feel the tender flesh that bleeds…

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By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 15 Oct 2018

This latest film isn’t entirely successful — Pizzolatto’s book stubbornly resists first-time screenwriter Jim Hammett’s efforts to…

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By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 15 Oct 2018

The pitch-black and paper-thin Galveston not only fails to find a way to reinvent, or at least refresh, that old tired idea, it also piles…

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By Keith Watson (196) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Oct 2018

The film is a slow, directionless anti-thriller that never manages to build tension or establish any stakes…

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By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 14 Oct 2018

Despite its ostensive seriousness, Galveston is a tepid crime drama without talons sharp enough to sink into the audience…

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By Lisa Nesselson (145) for France24 (78) on 11 Oct 2018

I can't say it grabbed me, beyond being very competently made, but Mélanie Laurent is versatile and deeply impressive…

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By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 27 Sep 2018

Laurent walks between pulpy suspense and a more serious grimness as she presents the action…

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By Hunter Lanier (52) for Film Threat (5,156) on 23 Sep 2018

With characters that we watch but never know and some imitative storytelling, Galveston can’t help but feel like a compilation of cover songs,…

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By John Fink (368) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 24 Mar 2018

Foster and Fanning are predictably great together, cut from the same bayou cloth, both doing what they must to get by, but the script gives…

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By Jacob Knight (117) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 12 Mar 2018

Sadly, the movie is never able to rid itself of a somewhat somnambulant aura, as these wayward bottom feeders hope to find a better life, and…

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