The drama starring Ethan Hawke and Amanda Seyfried is smart, debatable, entertaining, and refuses to pander. It also could get some prizes. Film critic Dave Kehr is now a curator in the film ...

Early in Paul Schrader’s provocative religious drama “First Reformed,” the Rev. Toller (Ethan Hawke) counsels a troubled parishioner that the human condition arises from our attempts to “hold hope and ...

I’m not at the Venice Film Festival, but a little piece of it has come to me—Paul Schrader’s latest film, “First Reformed,” starring Ethan Hawke and Amanda Seyfried, which premières in competition at ...

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