NOW SHOWING – FIRST REFORMED (Friday, July 13 – Thursday, July 19)

FIRST REFORMED:

Rated R
113 minutes

Friday, July 13 – 7 pm, 

Saturday, July 14 – 4 & 8 pm, 

Sunday, July 15 – 4 pm, 

Wednesday, July 18 – 1:30 & 7 pm, 

and Thursday, July 19 – 7 pm. 

Reverend Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke) is a solitary, middle-aged parish pastor at a small Dutch Reform church in upstate New York on the cusp of celebrating its 250th anniversary. Once a stop on the Underground Railroad, the church is now a tourist attraction catering to a dwindling congregation, eclipsed by its nearby parent church, Abundant Life, with its state-of-the-art facilities and 5,000-strong flock. When a pregnant parishioner (Amanda Seyfried) asks Reverend Toller to counsel her husband, a radical environmentalist, the clergyman finds himself plunged into his own tormented past, and equally despairing future, until he finds redemption in an act of grandiose violence. [A24]

Insider’s tip: “It’s a powerful, disturbing crisis of faith drama that takes on the raiments of a thriller, and a tour de force for the understated acting of Ethan Hawke” (Roger Moore, Movie Nation). Peter Travers, Rolling Stone, adds: “Not only is this faith-in-crisis drama one of the legendary writer-director’s most incendiary films ever, it’s one of the year’s very best – a cinematic whirlwind that leaves you both exhilarated and spent.”

FIRST REFORMED is a Metacritic.com “Must See” selection and has 3 wins and 4 additional nominations for excellence.