Redemption is the long game in Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter, a thriller that tells the story of an ex-military interrogator turned gambler haunted by the ghosts of his past decisions and featuring riveting performances from stars Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan, and Willem Dafoe. Executive produced by Martin Scorsese (Schrader’s collaborator on Taxi Driver), The Card Counter features the veteran filmmaker’s signature style, plunging to the depths of his protagonist’s existential despair and rising to when he finds a surrogate family in the form of his agent La Linda (Haddish) and the teenager Cirk (Sheridan), searching for meaning after his soldier father’s suicide.