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By Eisenstein (6) on 10 Oct 2021

Solid, traditional movie-making. Acting was good, pace was slow/deliberate…

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By Markhreviews (102) on 02 Oct 2021

Writer/Director Paul Schrader was raised by parents who were strict Calvinists (a form of Protestant Christianity that heavily emphasizes the…

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By K. Austin Collins (343) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 27 Sep 2021

The movie has real moral terror at its center. It gets ugly: It gives that word fresh resonance…

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By Bruceiscontent (3) on 22 Sep 2021

The Card Counter is essentially another First Reformed, but without any of the qualities that made the latter brilliant…

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By Intrippyentropy (27) on 20 Sep 2021

Oscar Isaac plays a former Army interrogator who is playing with the idea of getting revenge on a cruel man from his past…

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By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 17 Sep 2021

William is a strong character on his own, but he is also a metaphor for America’s struggle to overcome its grimmest failures and to break…

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By Tvjerry (1,783) on 16 Sep 2021

Paul Schrader is known for writing intimate character studies about people on the periphery haunted by their past…

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By Metacriticonur (388) on 16 Sep 2021

Admirable [ ad-mer-uh-buhl ] adjective worthy of admiration; inspiring approval, reverence, or affection…

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By Jluis_001 (2,242) on 16 Sep 2021

To judge this film in the first instance as a simple poker film, is basically to degrade it…

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By Richard Brody (868) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 14 Sep 2021

Above all, the film decries the impunity that the war’s masterminds and the country’s leaders enjoyed while William and other frontline…

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By Psiontheory (2) on 14 Sep 2021

This is beyond frustrating, as a poker player the movie is flawed (no flop on a major tournament hand…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 13 Sep 2021

Schrader’s made a long meditation on something that’s right up his alley, and it still feels incomplete while it’s in progress, and even…

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 13 Sep 2021

What’s discomforting about The Card Counter is that Schrader builds this strong moral backdrop for his characters and then allows them to…

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By Davemelbourne58 (109) on 12 Sep 2021

Like Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver, the war has scarred Oscar Isaac's card counting poker/blackjack player William Tell…

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By Moviemitch96 (552) on 12 Sep 2021

The latest from writer/director Paul Schrader (of course best known for penning the screenplays for 'Taxi Driver' and 'Raging Bull), sees Oscar…

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By Sarah-Tai Black (68) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 12 Sep 2021

There is an urgency to these stylistic choices which ask us how we might best realize, through image and sound, both the memory and feeling…

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By Patrickjoe1 (5) on 11 Sep 2021

Dull, boring and so full of holes one could drive a Mac truck through the…

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By Arevaloarevalo (3) on 10 Sep 2021

Outstanding movie that explains the origins of PTSD, the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, the origins of the debacle in Afghanistan, etc…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for ABC News (186) on 10 Sep 2021

A new Paul Schrader movie is always an event and this spellbinding meditation on sin and salvation—seen through the eyes of a gambler (a…

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By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 10 Sep 2021

It’s not for everybody, and it’s far from perfect, but you’ll be hard-pressed to find a more thrillingly necessary use of the filmmaking…

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