![]() ![]() Nearly 50 years and several wars later, “The Card Counter” stars Oscar Isaac as an Iraq vet anguished by the atrocities he committed at Abu Ghraib, self-sentenced to a purgatorial, joyless existence haunting the tables of mid-tier casinos like a ghost. His first produced screenplay, 1974’s “The Yakuza,” starred Robert Mitchum as an ex-GI returning to Japan and cutting off a finger to try and make things right with the husband of a woman he romanced during WWII. “Is there a limit to how much it takes to reach expiation?” asks the protagonist of Paul Schrader’s “The Card Counter.” It might be a better question for Schrader himself, who has spent the past five decades chronicling sinners struggling to find their own paths to atonement in the silence of an absent God. Oscar Isaac as William Tell in "The Card Counter." (Courtesy Focus Features) This article is more than 1 year old. ![]()
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