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 ...

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 ...

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 latest from writer-director Paul Schrader (‘Taxi Driver’) stars Ethan Hawke as a melancholy reverend in search of answers. Entertainment Critic In rural Upstate New York, Reverend Toller (Ethan ...

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 ...

As a priest who may or may not be losing his mind, Hawke provides a compelling anchor for Schrader's surprisingly effective religious-themed film. For 40 years, Paul Schrader has made movies about ...

Paul Schrader Thought His Career Was Over. Then He Made His Best Film in Years.After iffy collaborations with porn stars and Nicolas Cage, the writer-director is back with the buzzy First Reformed.

LOS CABOS, Mexico — Paul Schrader may have made his last film. Of course, so may any filmmaker in the world. But the source is Paul Schrader himself, sitting in a spacious hotel room at Los Cabos in ...

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 ...