Paul Schrader is one of American film’s most volatile insider-outsiders, a genuine one-off who’s never been afraid to bare his soul. Raised a Calvinist, he didn’t see a movie until he was 17, and his uneven, unpredictable career might be regarded as a manic process of catching up. He has surely delivered a late-period thunderbolt in First Reformed.
11 July 2018, The Tablet
Paul Schrader's First Reformed is a late-period thunderbolt of a film
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