In 2017 director David Lowery impressed audiences and critics with the film Ghost Story, the movie is an exploration of the supernatural and how people deal with grieve of losing a loved one. Lowery style is really hard to categorize because he likes to tell so many different stories with different styles.

His film The Old Man & The Gun is a fresh story about redemption and crime. Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford) is a wanted man, having broken out of San Quentin State Prison. On a particular robbery in 1981, he meets a woman who's truck is broken in the middle of the highway, which used as a decoy to hide from the police.

Later he invited her to have lunch with him. Jewel (Sissy Spacek) becomes fond of each other, leading to a relationship. Tucker continues a string of heist, with the help of two associates, Teddy Green (Danny Glover) and Waller (Tom Waits). His distinctive style of been nice to the bank tellers and play the respectful gentleman during robberies allow him to gain access to banks easily, take the money and run away without a problem, even without a gun. A police detective becomes interested in the case, John Hunt (Cassey Affleck) works for the Dallas police department and Tucker case becomes an obsession to him.

David Lowery deliver a great film where Robert Redford shines again for allegedly his last time on screen. Lowery create a film that can be easily confused a 70's masterfully he gest the style right, as all the elements in it.