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By Jake Coyle (526) for The Associated Press (882) on 09 Sep 2021

Toggling between Texas Hold ’Em and Iraq War nightmares makes for a head-spinning collision…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for The New York Times (9,847) on 09 Sep 2021

The solitary man returns in The Card Counter, a haunting, moving story of spirit and flesh, sin and redemption, love and death about another…

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By Lex Briscuso (44) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 09 Sep 2021

It’s clear both The Card Counter and First Reformed are cut from that same cloth, though the latter sticks the landing better than the former…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 09 Sep 2021

With The Card Counter, Schrader offers another self-flagellating portrait of a man who’s experienced—and enacted—great sin, struggling…

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By Kristy Puchko (422) for IGN (1,013) on 09 Sep 2021

Ultimately, this storied provocateur deals out shocking imagery and disturbing scenes, but he refuses to lay down a thrilling climax much less…

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By Mark Feeney (434) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 09 Sep 2021

The constant sense of low-grade menace that helps make the first quarter of The Card Counter intriguing and effective gets put on hold, in…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 08 Sep 2021

With The Card Counter, Schrader has reverted to form, but he’s remade it anew at the same time. He’s done it again, with crafty, haunting power…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 08 Sep 2021

As the title character — a professional gambler with a lot behind him, and not much impulse to dredge it up — Oscar Isaac makes for a magnetic…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 08 Sep 2021

As a chance for Isaac to re-familiarize viewers with his serious side after spending three films in a galaxy far, far away, it’s effective…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 08 Sep 2021

The grace notes—including a final shot that could, potentially, be Schrader’s most sublime—are lost among the inconsistencies, incomplete…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 07 Sep 2021

As with First Reformed, Schrader crashes right through the boundaries separating the literal from the surreal…

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By Jim Slotek (879) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 07 Sep 2021

A tale of trauma told, fittingly, with a poker face, Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter is a sure-handed rumination on redemption and finding…

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By Martin Carr (79) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 03 Sep 2021

The Card Counter marks another unique cinematic contribution from a masterful filmmaker…

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By Cassie Da Costa (26) for Vanity Fair (761) on 02 Sep 2021

You’ll leave the film unable to stop thinking about its dimensions…

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By Glenn Kenny (1,728) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 02 Sep 2021

With The Card Counter, Schrader has a sub-theme he can toss off like a light cloak, and when he does, the movie swerves into a semi-surreal…

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By Rodrigo Perez (382) for The Playlist (3,871) on 02 Sep 2021

It’s truly a wild, blazing ride if you get on the movie’s bruising, mesmeric wavelength, a tragic but deeply moral film about a righteous,…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Time (1,811) on 02 Sep 2021

The Card Counter, with Isaac’s superb performance at its heart, might be the movie you didn’t know you were wishing for, coming at a time…

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By Alison Willmore (681) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 02 Sep 2021

What makes The Card Counter so delicious, aside from the Mad Libs quality of the way it connects card playing and government-sanctioned torture,…

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By Nick Newman (61) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 02 Sep 2021

The Card Counter’s powers linger well past plot machination—its methods of approaching incident miles deeper than how they’ll play, its…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for IndieWire (3,631) on 02 Sep 2021

That The Card Counter shakes your faith in the writer-director’s ability to beat the odds is part of its scabrous charm…

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