...Lowery knows how to create a romantic fluidity while also finding tension in the individual, intimate moments.

...Foster shows up for work; the young character actor, who grows sharper with every unheralded supporting turn...

Lowery not only sets his film in a hardscrabble ’70s, but shoots with antique lenses and without fluorescent lights, wearing his inspirations proudly (if riskily) on his sleeve...

He tightens the angst through deft pacing, avoiding any jailbreaks, high-speed car chases and shootouts, and instead making us feel the anxiety of waiting.