Schrader also praised Pedro Almodovar's "Parallel Mothers," Kenneth Branagh's "Belfast," and Steven Spielberg's remake of "West Side Story." Critics, directors, even the former President of the United ...

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 ...

Cinematographer Alexander Dynan got to know director Paul Schrader working on “First Reformed” and an earlier film, “Dog Eat Dog.” Dynan developed a shorthand with Schrader and with colorist Tim ...

For Variety‘s Writers on Writers, Jon Robin Baits pens a tribute to “The Card Counter” (screenplay Paul Schrader). “Card Counter,” written and directed by the austerely insistently un-vibrant moralist ...

Oscar Isaac had been waiting a long time to work with filmmaker Paul Schrader, and in The Card Counter, he found a much-longed-for opportunity to portray an antihero directly in the mold of the writer ...