From the acclaimed writer-director Paul Schrader comes a gripping and meditative drama that explores faith, despair, and the weight of the modern world. Ethan Hawke delivers a powerful performance as Reverend Ernst Toller, a former military chaplain now presiding over a small, historic church in upstate New York. Haunted by personal tragedy and a growing crisis of faith, Toller's quiet, routine existence is shattered when he is approached by a pregnant parishioner, Mary (played by Amanda Seyfried), who is concerned about her radical environmentalist husband's deepening depression. As Toller becomes entangled in the couple's struggles, he is forced to confront his own spiritual emptiness and the looming threats of climate change and corporate greed. The film builds an atmosphere of intense psychological and moral tension, blending the quiet solemnity of a church with the explosive turmoil of a soul on the brink. First Reformed is a haunting, slow-burn thriller that asks profound questions about redemption, sacrifice, and what it truly means to take action in a broken world.