As much as he is a legend to the “new Hollywood” generation of the 1970s — especially as a screenwriter — Paul Schrader can be the definition of hit-or-miss when he’s also directing. When the trailer ...

It’s that time of year again—the time when all of the hard-hitting, super-prestigious movies premiere at film festivals in the hopes of getting on the ticket for awards season. The Card Counter—a new ...

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“The Card Counter,” which opened in theaters this weekend, tells the story of William Tell (Oscar Isaac), a former army interrogator turned gambler whose tour of East Coast casinos is interrupted by ...

SAN ANTONIO — In Paul Schrader’s latest plunge into the moral abyss, “The Card Counter,” a perpetually slick-haired Oscar Isaac plays the title character, ostensibly named William Tell, like someone ...

Striking sequences in the new revenge thriller “The Card Counter” borrow from virtual-reality technology. These flashback scenes set in Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison are brought to nightmarish life with ...

Safe to say, writer/director Paul Schrader has a thing for loners (Robert DeNiro in "Taxi Driver" and Ethan Hawke in "First Reformed"). Now here comes Oscar Isaac as "The Card Counter." His character ...

Tye Sheridan as Cirk and Oscar Isaac as William Tell and Tiffany Haddish as La Linda in The Card Counter. (Universal) After milling around between stolid blockbuster franchises, Oscar Isaac finally ...

Paul Schrader is on a late-career roll. Writing the scripts for “Taxi Driver” and “Raging Bull” gets you a free pass for life. As a director, though, Schrader has been more hit and miss. But with 2017 ...

Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise in ‘Rain Man’. When players sit down at a table in a casino, they know that “the house always wins.” In other words, even if you hit a lucky streak, in the long run, the ...