{"id":14551,"date":"2021-10-23T19:00:49","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T23:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14551"},"modified":"2021-10-21T17:18:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T21:18:35","slug":"the-card-counter-2021-paul-schrader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14551","title":{"rendered":"The Card Counter (2021, Paul Schrader)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14446\">No Sudden Move<\/a><\/em> has lost its status as the year&#8217;s most grotesque use of a wide-angle lens, courtesy of some Abu Ghraib flashbacks that turn Oscar Isaac and Willem Dafoe into carnival-mirror dwarfs.  Isaac served time for torturing the enemy while his superiors stayed free and rich, and a fellow torturer&#8217;s son Tye Sheridan tries to rope Isaac into a revenge plot, but Isaac wants to stay cool and quietly win card games using Tiffany Haddish&#8217;s money.  Nice to see a movie where cooler heads prevail, the kid is set straight and Isaac gets the girl&#8230; oh no, that&#8217;s not what happens, two people die and Isaac goes back to jail.  I can&#8217;t decide how I feel about it &#8211; the tone felt off, or maybe I just felt weird being at the Grand all by myself, anxiously trying not to expect <em>First Reformed 2<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Sudden Move has lost its status as the year&#8217;s most grotesque use of a wide-angle lens, courtesy of some Abu Ghraib flashbacks that turn Oscar Isaac and Willem Dafoe into carnival-mirror dwarfs. Isaac served time for torturing the enemy while his superiors stayed free and rich, and a fellow torturer&#8217;s son Tye Sheridan tries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,2202,2078,1747,144,2937,469,183],"class_list":["post-14551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-gambling","tag-oscar-isaac","tag-paul-schrader","tag-revenge","tag-tiffany-haddish","tag-torture","tag-willem-dafoe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14573,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14551\/revisions\/14573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}