“The Lowdown” puts a gritty spin on noir with Ethan Hawke’s dirty detective

“The Lowdown” introduces its scraggly detective Lee Raybon (Ethan Hawke) by way of a visit to a private club where Tulsa, Oklahoma’s rich and powerful plan their conquests. Against this enclave’s polished stone walls and bannisters, Lee looks every ragged inch of the tawdry menace the politicians and businessmen he squares off against expect him to be.

But Lee’s also a schemer whose griminess is his superpower. His adversaries think he’ll crumple like yesterday’s broadsheet when they turn him away, and are perturbed to realize he’s more like the human equivalent of tissue hanging onto the heel of a shoe. Getting rid of him will require a good deal of scraping.

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