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- First Reformed is a film that uses its runtime to its fullest potential, completely transforming a character's morals and beliefs in a human and believable way. Paul Schrader is not pulling any punches to tell this story, building subtle tension that amounts to an incredible masterclass of a conclusion.
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May 18, 2018 · Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed,” in which Ethan Hawke brilliantly plays an alcoholic Protestant minister undergoing a profound spiritual and psychological crisis, is a stunning, enrapturing film, a crowning work by one of the American cinema’s most essential artists.
May 18, 2018 · The pastor of a small church in upstate New York spirals out of control after a soul-shaking encounter with an unstable environmental activist and his pregnant wife.
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- Paul Schrader
- R
- Ethan Hawke
May 17, 2018 · More than that: an epiphany. A first-rate cinema intellectual — as a 24-year-old graduate student he wrote “Transcendental Style in Film,” a study of Bresson, Yasujiro Ozu and Carl Dreyer ...
- Paul Schrader
- A.O. Scott
- 113 min
May 25, 2018 · Vox Rating: Critics have rightly declared First Reformed to be one of the year’s best American films. Featuring a stunning performance from Ethan Hawke, it lingers uneasily in the subconscious.
Aug 30, 2017 · Film Review: ‘First Reformed’. Paul Schrader pours all his obsessions, from Robert Bresson to pulp violence, into a grindhouse art film you can't stop watching. By Owen Gleiberman. Courtesy of...
May 20, 2018 · First Reformed is some of his best work. Its self-divided protagonist is Father Ernst Toller, an ex-military chaplain played in a performance of great subtlety and control by Ethan Hawke.
Aug 30, 2017 · ‘First Reformed’: Film Review | Venice 2017. Ethan Hawke plays a troubled pastor and Amanda Seyfried a parishioner who comes to him for help in Paul Schrader's new drama, 'First Reformed.'