Tag: first reformed
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The Card Counter
Paul Schrader is back, with a brilliantly haunting character study about a war criminal turned poker player who can’t find redemption in The Card Counter. We don’t think it’s true, but any of us could become a war criminal. We like to think we’d be better people in that moment, but given the usual set…
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First Reformed
Writer and Director Paul Schrader’s latest film, First Reformed, courts controvery, as per usual, but this time, it does it in a quietly intelligent fashion. Films about religion are often as troublesome as the subject matter they dare try to dissect. When has any honest discussion of spirituality ended with each and every angle satisfied?…