It doesn't fail, but it doesn't succeed either.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 10, 2021

Intense crime drama has graphic violence and sex.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 27, 2020

GALVESTON is far more contemplative than one might expect from the plot synopsis, and confident work from Laurent and the lead actors galvanises the light script to multiplicative effect.

| Feb 13, 2020

[Galveston] starts off like a dramatic thriller but winds up, like its characters, on an unexpected and affecting journey.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 22, 2019

Galveston is little more than a pulp weepy with delusions of Cormac McCarthy, bolstered by a solid performance and a truly stirring epilogue, but not much else.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 17, 2019

Seedy and all too familiar film noir thriller.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 14, 2019

This is a movie that stays lodged in one's mind, although the images are not pleasant.

| Apr 7, 2019

Foster gives a typically strong performance as the troubled protagonist, while Fanning is excellent as the vulnerable Rocky.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 5, 2019

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.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 1, 2019

There's a sadness that permeates throughout this gritty tale about a hitman heading for Galveston in search of redemption.

| Mar 19, 2019

The film has a few shortcomings but when it works it works with perfection. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Mar 18, 2019

Even Ben Foster and Elle Fanning's great performances can't save this film's flat end. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 4, 2019

An amateur script that can't be saved by the talent both behind and in front of the camera.

| Jan 19, 2019

A trip without twists, moderately fascinating, that pays the umpteenth tribute to the cult of American Iconography. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 7, 2019

[A]n uneven but arrestingly beautiful drama.

| Dec 26, 2018

Galveston is a neo-noir model of narrative efficiency anchored by excellent work by two of our finest actors, and a film that will hopefully serve as Laurent's introduction to the world of English-language cinema as something other than an actress.

| Dec 12, 2018

The filmmaker brings subtlety and sensitivity to tell a torn and atypical story of redemption. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 7, 2018

[Director] Mélanie Laurent does not stay far from the American Southern noir. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 4, 2018

Replete with thoughtful character work by Ben Foster and co-star Elle Fanning and immersive direction by Melanie Laurent, Galveston is a lingering cinematic experience.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 31, 2018

A tragic, fatalistic drama led by two strong performances and anchored by Laurent's strong direction.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 29, 2018