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

"Galveston" is tough, uncompromising, and hauntingly believable, just a little too slow and a lot too serious for today's typical action audiences.

| Oct 19, 2018

The film equivalent of a familiar, not too special song that's been brilliantly re-arranged and performed.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 19, 2018

A muted crime drama that runs out of plot too soon, but makes up for it with powerhouse performances and a finely shaded sense of place.

| Oct 18, 2018

With shadowy imagery that pushes the boundaries of visibility and a mumbly lead performance from Ben Foster that strains the limits of intelligibility, "Galveston" goes past film noir and lands at film murk.

| Oct 18, 2018

The coda abruptly re-configures a tired crime saga into an altogether different kind of story, one that doesn't see redemption as something Roy might achieve for himself, but rather as something that he can give to the people who need it from him.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 17, 2018

There are some late, minor twists in Galveston that suggest the movie has more on its mind than it lets on - but they ultimately don't amount to much.

| Oct 16, 2018

Everything about Galveston is expertly realized, provided you're willing to ignore the nagging emptiness where its emotional core was meant to be.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 16, 2018

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

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 15, 2018

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

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 15, 2018

Foster is very good, and Fanning is even better, but Galveston is one of those movies that ended, and I wondered why I had taken the journey.

| Mar 12, 2018

A seedy but sincere and strikingly attractive picture adapted from the novel by Nic Pizzolatto.

| Mar 12, 2018

The themes in Galveston are undoubtedly heavy, but the darkness is punctuated by moments of hilarious levity that take the edge off of Ray and Raquel's bleak circumstances.

| Mar 12, 2018