PREVIEW: The Card Counter (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis), Tiffany Haddish (Here Today), Tye Sheridan (Ready Player One), Willem Dafoe (The Lighthouse), Alexander Babara (The Hunt), Bobby C. King (Starve)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Paul Schrader (First Reformed), director, writer; Lauren Mann (Swiss Army Man), Braxton Pope (The Canyons) and David M. Wulf (Inheritance), producers; Robert Levon Been (film debut) and Giancarlo Vulcano (Train Baby), composers; Alexander Dynan (After Love), cinematographer; Benjamin Rodriguez Jr. (Dog Eat Dog), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

William Tell (Isaac) is a gambler and former military interrogator who is approached by an angry young man named Cirk (Sheridan), who wants Tell’s help in executing his plan for revenge on retired Major John Gordo (Dafoe). Seeking a chance at redemption, and with help from gambling financier La Linda (Haddish), Tell takes Cirk with him on a gambling tour of Las Vegas in an attempt to dissuade the young man from violence – but soon, Tell is drawn more and more back into the world he thought he left behind…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Oscar Isaac towers over all with a commanding central performance in this gripping character study from writer-director Paul Schrader, known best for his scripts to Scorsese classics like Taxi Driver and Raging Bull.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 5TH NOVEMBER 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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