First Reformed

First Reformed manages to be ascetic, poetic, and prophetic. It’s at once centering, thrilling, and disturbing.

Schrader dissects the roots, hypocrisies and virtues of Christianity through a series of increasingly troubling symbols.... Not an easy watch, but required viewing for ambitious cinephiles.

First Reformed is the type of film that leaves you with more profound questions than answers. You’ll probably need to see it two, maybe three times to really soak it up, but even after a single viewing, it left me completely awestruck.

An act of spiritual inquiry, a coolly assured example of cinematic scholarship in subtly deployed motion and one of the strongest pictures of 2018.

First Reformed...may be the full realization of Schrader’s vision.

First Reformed is a bleak, punishing movie and the furthest thing imaginable from an easy crowdpleaser. But Hawke juices it with an austere sense of grace.

Admittedly, I'm in the minority here, with many other critics swooning over First Reformed and the big questions it raises. Regardless, the biggest question I had after watching it was simple: What the hell did I just witness?

Ethan Hawke shines in the best performance of the year, masterly directed and executed as a slow burn drama. Must watch for all cinephiles! It is dark, haunting and depressing just like Rev. Ernst Toller's mind. Gives a gloomy portrait of spirituality in these dark times

Great buildup but very sub par ending. I think there are many better Ethan Hawke films to choose from.

Se nos muestra la vida de un reverendo; la trama tiene un ritmo lento, pero esto se compensa con buenas actuaciones y escenas bastante memorables.

Unfortunately this movie just got to my area this weekend. This movie could have been and should have been great! The themes both religious, personal, and ecological are intense and relevant. However as much as I appreciate ambiguity the ending was uncalled for. Instead of a climax we got a fart. In my opinion machina ex-deus.

Major Caution!! The movie is filmed in 1:37 aspect ratio. So the film takes up about the middle half of a theater screen. Extremely annoying. There is symmetry in some shots but the visuals are terrible.....a very ugly movie. No score to the movie. Totally character driven **** critics who are ALL in the cult of character rate the movie highly. There is a lot, a LOT, to dislike about this movie... My pet peeve....movies are a visual art form. Make them attractive to look at. FAIL.