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The weight he carries has made him steely and almost obsessively meticulous, a fact that serves him well as a poker player, but which cripples him as a person. Oscar Isaac's professional gambler, who goes by the name William Tell, can be added to the list of the walking wounded. His career floats on a raft of them, from Travis Bickle in the revered Taxi Driver (1976, penned by Schrader, directed by Martin Scorsese) to Ernst Toller, the pastor consumed by doubt in First Reformed (2017), written and directed by Schrader.

Writer-director Paul Schrader loves his broken male characters. Still from the film The Card Counter starring Oscar Isaac and Tiffany Haddish. Why go through the trouble of making the villain a vengeance-seeking native American deity, a being feared and respected by indigenous people, then have it behave in a wild, irrational manner that bears no relation to its culture? The Card Counter (M18)

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He creates interesting stories from heartsick characters engaged in slow-motion suicide, by means of the bottle (Crazy Heart), warfare (Hostiles) or bare-knuckle prizefighting (Out Of The Furnace).Д«ut in this unremarkable horror movie centred on demonic possession, Cooper's fondness for grounding events in Americana trips him up. His body of work includes the country singer character study Crazy Heart (2009), the western Hostiles (2017) and crime drama Out Of The Furnace (2013) - all three of which this reviewer enjoyed. Director and co-writer Scott Cooper ought to be in his element here.