MASTER GARDENER

A meticulous horticulturist is devoted to tending the grounds of a beautiful estate and pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager. When she demands that he take on her wayward and troubled great niece, it unlocks dark secrets from a buried violent past.

Paul Schrader’s latest marvelous opus on American guilt and redemption cultivates its multicolored path to grace in a garden of award-winning splendor. Joel Edgerton excels as an anti-hero with green fingers but a troubled past, while Sigourney Weaver stuns as a spiteful grande dame.