collider

First Reformed Review: A Searing Meditation on Faith and Despair

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...
MyNorthwest.com

Ethan Hawke’s ‘First Reformed’ demands to be taken seriously

The first critical hit of this year’s Seattle International Film Festival, Ethan Hawke’s “First Reformed” gets a regular theatrical release Friday, June 1. It’s about as far away from your typical ...
Uproxx

‘First Reformed’ Is Paul Schrader’s Most Interesting Work In Years

Paul Schrader has long been credited for helping to create some of the defining films of the 70s and 80s — through his screenwriting work on Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and Last Temptation of Christ, ...
collider

First Reformed Trailer: Ethan Hawke Is a Man of Faith without Hope

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...
The Reporter

‘First Reformed’ a spiritual drama for the ages

In “First Reformed” (2018, Lionsgate, R, $20), Ethan Hawke stars as a priest at a small, struggling church in upstate New York whose life is changed forever when a pregnant parishioner (Amanda ...
Vulture

First Reformed

Paul Schrader Thought His Career Was Over. Then He Made His Best Film in Years.After iffy collaborations with porn stars and Nicolas Cage, the writer-director is back with the buzzy First Reformed.
WBUR

'First Reformed' Is 'A Form Of Prayer' In An Era Of Commodified Religion

“First Reformed” is the film Paul Schrader has been working toward for more than 40 years. A diamond-hard distillation of the themes and preoccupations he’s been wrestling with throughout his career, ...
Metro Times

‘First Reformed’ confronts an existential crisis

Ethan Hawke plays a reverend who has an existential crisis of faith in Paul Schrader’s First Reformed. Writer-director Paul Schrader’s apocalyptic new vision (perhaps his strongest since scripting the ...
Los Angeles Times

The bracing ‘First Reformed,’ starring a superb Ethan Hawke, resurrects Paul Schrader’s career

In the opening shot of Paul Schrader’s new movie, the camera creeps slowly toward First Reformed Church, a small chapel in upstate New York that has welcomed parishioners since 1767. The place has ...
Los Angeles Times

In ‘First Reformed,’ Ethan Hawke gave the performance of the year — and of his brilliantly unorthodox career

In “First Reformed,” Ethan Hawke almost never raises his voice. His character, the Rev. Ernst Toller, is a former Army chaplain who leads a small Protestant church in upstate New York, where he ...
We Are Movie Geeks

FIRST REFORMED – Review

Writer/director Paul Schrader’s FIRST REFORMED is a spellbinding film, smart and suspenseful, one of the best so far this year. Ethan Hawke stars as Reverend Ernst Toller, the pastor of First Reformed ...