The film’s cold tone is more cerebral than emotional, and its slow, talky pace feels brutally suffocating.
Tag: Paul Schrader
“The Card Counter”
This intense drama has all the expected hallmarks of a Schrader film, but feels disappointing, pointless, and routine.
“First Reformed”
The parallels of the destructive natures of polluters are likened to organized religion, as the poison is nearly one and the same. One may be destroying our planet, but the other could be destroying our souls.
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