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May 18, 2018
At the Movies: The tormented souls of ‘First Reformed'
By LINDSEY BAHR
AP Film Writer
AP Film Writer
In "First Reformed" Ethan Hawke plays a solitary, middle-aged parish pastor having a crisis of faith.
Harrowing, but with a wry humor, and utterly transporting, Paul Schrader has morphed his complex religious upbringing with modern anxieties into a portrait of tormented souls in “First Reformed.”
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