A showcase for Duvall, Murray and Spacek, Get Low will satisfy punters who don’t mind unhurried storytelling as long as it comes with eye-catching performances and a rewarding pay-off.
The performances are all terrific and Schneider’s laid-back direction and slow burn storytelling suits this gentle tale. Ultimately however, the film is too thin, unsurprising and hokey.
Though the period detail is pleasing, and there are a handful of nice scenes, it doesn’t quite equate to enough dramatic interest.
Aaron Schneider's southern folk tale comes slathered in corn syrup, oozing its way towards a climax that's not so much big reveal as dying whimper.
Schneider’s drama sometimes moves with all the speed of molasses going uphill, but with stars of this calibre doing their thing, who cares?
Get Low's one saving grace is Murray's melancholic presence, which acts as a counterpoint to the rest of the film's desperate-to-be-loved banality.
Get Low proves to be a platitude wrapped in a banality inside a mystery.
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