Green covers the screen as the opening credits for Paul Schrader’s “The Card Counter” surface. The color and texture come from the felt distinctive to casino tables. But this isn’t a study on greed ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Oscar Isaac might be the “strangest poker player” you’ve ever met in the first trailer for “The Card Counter.” And knowing it’s a Paul Schrader film, this might be the strangest gambling movie you’ve ...

“I don’t really feel like it’s going anywhere,” a character in Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter laments at one point, and for a good long time one is inclined to feel this way about the film itself.

This review of “The Card Counter” was first published on Sept. 2, 2021 after the film’s premiere at the Venice Film Festival. Green covers the screen as the opening credits for Paul Schrader’s “The ...