Lowery’s earlier films include “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints” and “A Ghost Story” with Affleck, and “Pete’s Dragon” with Redford in a supporting role. “The Old Man and the Gun” retells Tucker’s story by way of a compressed timeline and plenty of inventions, most of which feel about right. (However, Tucker really did bust out of prison all those times, and in 1979 he really did escape, temporarily, from San Quentin, in a homemade rowboat.) This is a fact-based yarn so relaxed in the telling that it’s practically lying down. Everyone on screen has a pleasant time with their cohorts. Tika Sumpter plays Affleck’s wife, and while it’s too bad Lowery didn’t make more of her role beyond “beguiling and supportive,” the story never strays too far from its star.