While premiering Master Gardener at the Venice Film Festival last year, the 76-year-old Paul Schrader said, “I used to be a young writer who believed I did not want to leave this world until I said, Fuck you.” Consider some of his best-known characters: Taxi Driver’s Travis Bickle, a proto-incel who becomes increasingly violent, or American Gigolo’s Julian, an upscale escort framed for murdering a client. Schrader continued, “Now I’m an old director who doesn’t want to leave this world until I say, I love you.” His latest film stars Joel Edgerton as Roth, a neo-Nazi turned gardener, who works for Mrs. Haverhill (Sigourney Weaver). Haverhill’s niece, a mixed-race teenager, becomes Roth’s apprentice. Schrader, who was raised a devout Calvinist, turns Roth’s compulsive work ethic into an indirect route to his salvation. The movie is set to an original score by Dev Hynes, a.k.a. Blood Orange. —Jensen Davis