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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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, ...
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 ...
The best artists don’t go soft as they get older. They become more intensely themselves, like there’s nothing to lose and no gain in lying. Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed” is a film with that quality ...