- https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/first-reformed-review/560594/
- Shrader at Calvin in Feb
- Allissa Wilkinson in Vox reviews
But both films (Silence) revolve around the same question: What if you predicated your life on God’s existence, and then God turned out to be silent, crowded out by bodily discomfort, broken relationships, plundered dreams, and external forces more interested in their own power than the unsettling implications of Jesus’s teachings?