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By Josh Kupecki (255) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 17 May 2023

What (a kinder and gentler?) Schrader has crafted with Master Gardener is a fable of redemption. And there lies the deviation…

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By Murtada Elfadl (54) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 17 May 2023

While it doesn’t fare well in comparison, Master Gardener still has enough unique characteristics and performances to stand out as a fine…

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By Lindsey Bahr (430) for The Associated Press (882) on 17 May 2023

Like a haphazardly planted garden, it’s lot of ideas that don’t seem to create anything terribly coherent but it has its individual pleasures…

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By Stephen A. Russell (22) for Time Out (7,510) on 17 May 2023

As the film shifts away from the mansion and into a pretty pat subplot about far-right goons and drug addiction, it grows less like a prize-winning…

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By Liz Braun (961) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 16 May 2023

The writer-director behind The Card Counter and First Reformed makes a misstep here, courtesy unlikely characters and sometimes mystifying…

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By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 16 May 2023

I wanted to buy this story. I really did…

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By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 16 May 2023

Master Gardener fits as snuggly in writer-director Paul Schrader’s legacy of films about obsessive and isolated men as do pruning shears…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 15 May 2023

A charitable reading of Master Gardener would be to say that it feels unfinished and unformed—that there might be something here with another…

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By Tomris Laffly (460) for TheWrap (3,203) on 08 May 2023

In the end, Master Gardener is ripe with seeds of ideas on the verge of blossoming into something beguiling, maybe even generously healing…

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By Luke Hicks (31) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 11 Oct 2022

It’s not all brilliant or profound, and it’s certainly not all well-worded, but it’s always thoughtful…

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By Jesse Hassenger (800) for Consequence (296) on 02 Oct 2022

Edgerton isn’t as electric as Hawke or Isaac, and the passion-play dramaturgy strains…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Sep 2022

For Paul Schrader, even a film called Master Gardener ultimately pivots on a man having to take out the macho trash…

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By Robbie Collin (1,612) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 17 Sep 2022

Schrader can do this stuff in his sleep, and in Master Gardener you sometimes wonder if he might be…

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By John Bleasdale (289) for CineVue (2,163) on 17 Sep 2022

Ultimately, Narvel is the fascist as liberal fantasy. Someone with access to skilled violence, who can unleash it at whim…

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By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 17 Sep 2022

Master Gardener is all fingers and thumbs for much of its running time, kept sporadically in order only by the stern, trusty presence of Edgerton…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 17 Sep 2022

Perhaps Schrader will indeed defiantly return to his accustomed theme for his next film – and this brilliant, restless director might well…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 17 Sep 2022

Joel Edgerton’s haunted central performance as former white supremacist Narvel Roth fits the essential Schrader mold of a troubled soul hiding…

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By Jonathan Romney (434) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 17 Sep 2022

For all the film’s provocations, both serious and mischievous, it’s a remarkably elegant, subtle piece…

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By Leila Latif (37) for IndieWire (3,631) on 17 Sep 2022

While the central character’s arc will likely launch a dreaded “discourse,” there is a tenderness to Master Gardener that may prove its…

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By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 17 Sep 2022

Master Gardener is another of the old Calvanist’s prayers of absolution—honest and personal to a fault, and a satisfying close to one of…

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