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There’s no way to talk about David Lowery’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (A-) without mentioning the movie’s own patron saint, Terrence Malick. But while for much of its length, the story of an escape Texas outlaw (Casey Affleck) and the woman (Rooney Mara) and child he left behind plays like an accomplished Badlands riff, the film’s powerful climax takes it into territory all its own. Beautifully shot by Bradford Young and scored by Daniel Hart, whose banjo and fiddle drone evokes Nick Cave and Warren Ellis’ scores without simply copying them, it’s an entrancing mood piece, laconically intense and resonant in ways it may take more time, or at least a less crowded schedule, to process.