Review: In the Masterful First Reformed, Ethan Hawke Gives Us a God-Fearing Travis Bickle
vanityfair.com
First Reformed, Paul Schrader’s bleak, spectacular new drama, could accurately be summed up as an account of one man’s bitter crisis of faith.
Ryan Wilkins
2152 days ago
Schrader’s film is a wise, shocking, intellectually prodigious masterpiece. It’s a classic Schrader slow burn that seems to reach, in its final moments, for the impossible. For rapture, if that’s even what you’d call it. And then the film ends—snuffed out mid-breath. Good luck catching yours.