Paul Schrader

Film Review: “Oh, Canada” — Remembrance of Uncertainty Past

December 10, 2024
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The aim is to evoke, critically, a period when adventure, for men, was about running away to Cuba or going on Kerouac-inspired road trips.

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Film Review: “Master Gardener” — White Knight to the Rescue

May 17, 2023
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Master Gardener is more Pinterest mood board than story.

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Film Review: Interrogating Guilt — Paul Schrader’s “The Card Counter”

September 9, 2021
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The Card Counter collapses under the weight of director Paul Schrader’s guilt complex.

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Film Review: “First Reformed” — A Vision of Despair, Restrained

April 26, 2018
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This time around, as both a writer and director, Paul Schrader has a found a story, and the artistic restraint, to convey his elevated vision.

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Film Review: “The Canyons” — Yucky But Likeable

August 31, 2013
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Lindsay Lohan is prostituting herself to a dreary vision of a Tinseltown shorn of even flickers of glory. And I like that.

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Film Review: Paul Schrader’s “The Canyons” — Roasting in Hell for Eternity is a Given.

August 4, 2013
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The bubbling-over sexuality of Paul Schrader’s The Canyons is surely tongue-in-cheek, amusing in its semen-splashed excessiveness.

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