Robert Redford's last role is a dazzling film with a simple message: Do what makes you happy

The Old Man & the Gun injects surprising heart into the standard cops-and-robbers flick

Robert Redford.
(Image credit: Eric Zachanowich/2018 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation)

"Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

When Mark Twain coined this phrase, he probably didn't have bank robbery and jailbreak in mind. But for the late Forrest Tucker, the inveterate career criminal portrayed by the great Robert Redford in David Lowery's new film, The Old Man & the Gun, the idiom nonetheless fits.

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Andy Crump

Bostonian culture journalist Andy Crump covers the movies, beer, music, and being a dad for way too many outlets, perhaps even yours: Paste Magazine, The Playlist, Mic, The Week, Hop Culture, and Inverse, plus others. You can follow him on Twitter and find his collected writing at his personal blog. He is composed of roughly 65 percent craft beer.