Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada Is the Confession of a Man Who’s Faced Death

If Paul Schrader’s most recent films have made a meme out of the image of a solitary man sitting in an empty room and writing in a journal, then his latest flips that idea on its head. Some have surely found it strange that the septuagenarian Schrader’s austere cinema — in particular the so-called “Man in a Room” trilogy of First Reformed (2017), The Card Counter (2021), and Master Gardener (2022) — has found such purchase among younger viewers. But think of his haunted heroes as aspirational figures...