Master Gardener

Master Gardener (2023) is a crime drama written and directed by Paul Schrader — watch it online on iFILM. Joel Edgerton plays Narvel Roth, a meticulous horticulturist tending the grounds of a grand Southern estate. Under his pristine work shirts, Nazi tattoos tell a very different story about who he used to be.

His wealthy employer, the imperious Mrs. Haverhill (Sigourney Weaver), gives him an ultimatum: take charge of her troubled niece Maya (Quintessa Swindell), who is deep in addiction and dangerous company. Keeping Maya safe will mean digging up the past Narvel buried — and possibly becoming the man he swore he'd left behind.

Schrader, who wrote Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, works the same obsessive blueprint: a damaged loner seeking redemption through someone else's crisis. What makes it land is Edgerton's stillness — a man holding himself together by sheer discipline while everything around him threatens to detonate. Stream Master Gardener (2023) on iFILM.