The Lowdown ★★★★

As played with scarecrow defiance and questionable self-care by Ethan Hawke, The Lowdown ’s Lee Raybon is a self-styled “truthstorian”. A freelance writer whose abiding passion is the murky history and ongoing scandals underpinning his hometown of Tulsa, this garrulous southerner sees conspiracies everywhere, talks a great game, and gets periodically punched in the face by disgruntled subjects. “He’s a loon,” notes his shopfront lawyer, Dan (Macon Blair). “The best kind – he keeps me entertained.” The viewer should feel likewise.

Ethan Hawke plays Lee Raybon, a self-styled “truthstorian”, in The Lowdown.

Writer and director Sterlin Harjo’s follow-up to the terrific Reservation Dogs , a bittersweet coming-of-age comedy set on Oklahoma’s Native American tribal land

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