The Card Counter

Part four and the end of Schrader-thon. Yeah, I know, I can sense your disappointment. But unlike our last episode, where the film was like crawling through broken glass, Schrader's THE CARD COUNTER (2021) is his follow up after the electrifying FIRST REFORMED. We follow gambling drifter Oscar Isaac as he tries to outrun his past as a soldier incarcerated for torturing prisoners of war. It's pretty dark, uncompromising and in perfect Paul Schrader fashion, has a man writing in a diary in it.