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.

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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.