This is the third straight year that director David Lowery has delivered a new film and they're all quite different creatures. 2016 saw him enter the world of family movie filmmaking with the excellent
Pete's Dragon, in 2017 he did an avant-garde exploration of life & death with
A Ghost Story and now in 2018 he's delivered
The Old Man & The Gun, which covers some common thematic ground with
A Ghost Story. Specifically, both are wistful tales of how our own lives can impact others even after we're gone, though his newest directorial effort covers this material in a more light-hearted dialogue-heavy manner compared to the stripped-down nature of
A Ghost Story.
