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The man who wrote “Taxi Driver” has, in his 70s, given us “First Reformed,” “The Card Counter” and “Master Gardener,” movies about solitary men wrestling with the task of living in a world that humanity has wrecked, and the dread of discovering oneself personally unforgivable for one’s place in it.

When Hawke saw “The Card Counter,” he said, he was proud of Schrader for “going back to war.”

In “The Card Counter,” Isaac is William Tell, a proficient gambler who was once an Abu Ghraib torturer.

While “Master Gardener” ends in a different way, a number of Schrader’s films, including “The Card Counter” and “Light Sleeper,” conclude with the hero in prison reaching out to a woman he loves.

Joel Edgerton’s performance anchors this third entry in a loosely structured Schrader trilogy that began with ‘First Reformed’ and ‘The Card Counter.’