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By Matt Hudson (148) for What I Watched Tonight (148) on 25 Oct 2018

Part scathing, part ruminative, part tragic but profoundly affecting, First Reformed is an astonishing piece of cinema…

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By Nate Adams (71) for The Only Critic (71) on 09 Oct 2018

Then again, few people can wear a clerical uniform to great distinction the way Hawke does here, conveying his eventual downfall into ethical…

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By Daniel Nava (97) for Chicago Cinema Circuit (97) on 05 Oct 2018

I have no hesitation in calling First Reformed one of Schrader's best films, in what frequently registers as a summation of the writer/director's…

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By Javier Ocaña (196) for El Pais (Spain) (511) on 27 Sep 2018

First Reformed is a treatise on remorse, exposed through fixed planes with constant reframing in which frontality predominates…

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By Yago García (78) for Cinemanía (Spain) (558) on 23 Sep 2018

First Reformed is not only [Paul Schrader's] best film in a long time…

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By Sarah Ward (538) for Concrete Playground (635) on 23 Sep 2018

With the intensity that's made him such a compelling screen presence for decades now, Hawke wears his character's growing uncertainty and unhappiness…

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By Elisenda N. Frisach (3) for El antepenúltimo mohicano (311) on 16 Sep 2018

Paul Schrader offers a very personal and, at the same time, universalist, film... that even allows brief moments of magical realism…

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By Brian Quinn (6) for Film Ireland Magazine (354) on 06 Sep 2018

But for all First Reformed's soundless fury, it's the perforated moments of intimate wonder which gnaw against our subconscious, a divine sweetness…

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By Lauren Humphries-Brooks (64) for Citizen Dame (14) on 01 Sep 2018

First Reformed ultimately plays as a personal religious polemic, one steeped in an existential despair over the world and God, that somehow…

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By Jeff Beck (630) for The Blu Spot (155) on 28 Aug 2018

First Reformed ends up feeling like a film that needed another draft or two to help iron out the wrinkles in its main character's arc…

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By Rob Gonsalves (1,031) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 28 Aug 2018

First Reformed is Paul Schrader's twenty-first film as a director, and probably his best…

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By Jared Mobarak (867) for BuffaloVibe (83) on 27 Aug 2018

It's a brilliantly conceived trajectory performed with powerful conviction by Hawke. But a little subtlety [from Schrader] would have gone a long way…

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By Adam Lubitow (13) for Rochester City Newspaper (13) on 27 Aug 2018

A bruising experience; one that left even a non-religious person like me feeling shaken…

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By Alexa Dalby (160) for Dog and Wolf (160) on 26 Aug 2018

First Reformed is a compelling slow burn…

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By Mark Kermode (1,002) for Kermode & Mayo's Film Review (77) on 26 Aug 2018

They are weird moments of almost hypnotic transcendence, but at the center of it is that tortured God's lonely man character perfectly embodied…

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By Robert Daniels (336) for 812filmreviews (121) on 25 Aug 2018

A work that most 30 year old's would welcome, and one that a 71 year old might have thought would never come around again…

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By Joe Reid (103) for Decider (264) on 23 Aug 2018

It's a thrilling ride, and Ethan Hawke's performance - the best of his career and worthy of an Oscar nomination - never once lets you out of its grip…

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By Nicholas Bell (55) for IONCINEMA.com (55) on 23 Aug 2018

If Schrader has had to deal with an onslaught of compromised projects over the past two decades, First Reformed is not only the purest distillation…

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By Stephanie Watts (27) for One Room With A View (90) on 23 Aug 2018

Mixed in with an outstanding performance from Ethan Hawke, First Reformed is a truly stunning film that can only get better on repeat viewings…

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By Alci Rengifo (87) for Riot Material (43) on 23 Aug 2018

Beautifully composed, it is a film that reaches well beyond the surface of its story…

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