A Hidden Life

  • PG13 (SINGAPORE)
  • 2019


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1.5
Despite its epic length, A Hidden Life offers nothing remotely so thoughtful or intense. Av Club
3.8
A Hidden Life is another Terrence Malick nature poem, transforming a true tale of conscientious objection into a ravishing portrait of goodness in a t .. EW
3.0
No one quite captures natures beauty and slowness as well as Terrence Malick does, but his mastery only barely saves this three hour long story thats .. Common Sense Media
4.5
But the work hes made over the last few years hasnt been searching so much as lost. Indie Wire
4.5
Malick draws a critical distinction between faith and religion, calling out the failing of the latter a human institution thats as fallible and corrup .. Variety
4.0
Malick links the lonely labour of working the land with the thanklessness of sainthood, asking questions about devotion, tradition and individual acts .. The Guardian
3.0
Malick does succeed, to some degree, on his own terms; he attempts to give some (stylised) sense of this mans inner life: his emotional and spiritual .. The Guardian
3.8
Terrence Malicks film means to seek out souls caught in the tide of history, but which move against its current.
3.8
A Hidden Life is indisputably the finest work Malick has produced in eight years, as an examination of faith, conviction and sacrifice, but also as pr ..
4.5
Malick pointedly ponders what, if anything, the righteous can do to stop tyranny Those exhausted by Malicks instantly recognisable aesthetic wont jump .. Screen Daily
4.5
There is something to Franzs life thats worth revisiting but as presently constituted Hidden Life isnt that movie. Collider
0.5
We shouldnt be so smug as to assume that we would always know the right thing to do, or even be brave enough to do it, Malick seems to say. A true act .. Vulture
4.0
Diehls performance is a model of restraint; he more often imparts information by a look, a glance, the slump of his shoulders, than he does with a spo ..
4.5
Malicks camera embodies those parts of ourselves, and our beliefs, most in need of nurturing. IGN
4.3
A Hidden Life is both inspiring and heartbreaking, and the result is Terrence Malicks best film in nearly a decade. IGN
5.0
has a clear and compelling story that just happens to fit in nicely with his unique style and the end result is both one of the very best films of 201 .. E Film Critic
5.0
Jgersttters story is almost brutally simple in outline, but Malicks patient method wants to delve, little by little, into his soul. Telegraph
4.5
Its at once a linear, almost classically structured drama and an exploratory, intensely romantic work of art.
5.0
A Hidden Life is a supreme artwork, but viewers might find Malicks methods frustrating if not enraging. The Young Folks
4.0
If you dont like Malicks movies, A Hidden Life wont convert you. But this is the filmmaker on sublime form, putting his artistry and obsessions at the ..
3.8
There is familiarity here, but sincerity too. This is all part of Malicks cinematic forever quest for truth and beauty amidst a world that prefers lie .. The Globe And Mail
5.0
An immersive story of a conscientious objector to the Nazis, his wife who supported him, and the community who didnt. Spirituality And Practice
3.8
If you are willing to accept the challenge posed by Malicks technique, you may find this cinematic poem on the mystery of faith a profoundly moving an .. One Guys Opinion
3.8
Breathtakingly beautiful, poetic, soulful and chillingly topical (the film) searches for righteousness in a time when cruelty and evil are the popular .. Rogers Movie Nation
3.5
While Malick cant help himself at times, theres a clear battle of conscience that supports the feature, permitting it to feel more human than anything .. Blu Ray
5.0
he only thing that really matters in this film is this world, and that makes this story all the more challenging, thought provoking, and emotionally d .. Mark Reviews Movies
3.8
Diehl and Pachner are extraordinarily lovely together, their marriage projecting a kind of sensual purity.
4.5
It is the best thing hes done in a long time, and it is very very Terrence Malick, for all the good and bad that that means. You Tube
2.0
The ending has real power, too, but much of the rest of the film is just plain dull gorgeous to look at, but dull. The Times
3.5
Award winning writer director Terrence Malick takes aim at autocrats who demand, above all, personal loyalty, in this anti fascist saga of an Austrian .. Lariat
3.0
Malicks return to form with the true story of a WW2 pacifist still seems like a miss as his focus drifts off into gorgeous shots of mountain mists, ch .. Rolling Stone
3.5
Some sequences may feel unnecessary or repetitive, but Malicks impressionistic storytelling style carries a strong kick. Shadows On The Wall
4.0
Despite its faults, the film does indeed succeed in being a species of religious experience. It has a powerful sense of the immanence of life. Cs Monitor
5.0
A Hidden Life is less a story than an experience, a spiritual journey made accessible through light and sound. Malick doesnt transcend cinema. He sanc .. Az Central
1.5
As usual, Malicks style of storytelling is roundabout and allusive, but this time it seldom stalls. Npr
2.5
Malick falls prey yet again to the voice over whispering and dreamy cloud watching he relies on too much. Toronto Star
4.4
thoroughly committed to the powerful idea that simply standing ones moral and ethical ground, refusing to bow to pressure even if it seems, in the mom .. Q Network
4.0
It has the intensity of a Carl Dreyer silent film but also a timely urgency, as Malick asks us to consider how one individual can hope to make a diffe .. Flim List
4.5
Like its subject, Malicks latest film is willing to sacrifice the poetic and enigmatic for the conspicuous and patent. Its a clear moral decision as m .. Film Inquiry
4.5
A Hidden Life is imperfect, and doesnt plunder its premises existential depths as much as youd expect given the runtime. But the imagery is often fant .. Film Inquiry
3.5
Slow, somber and visually sumptuous, its a timely meditation on faith and conscience. Susang Ranger
1.5
By reaching for lofty ideas that never feel within its grasp, it sacrifices its beating, human heart. Flickering Myth
3.0
Its still a test of patience, but its also a promise at returning to form as an all time great filmmaker Flickering Myth
3.5
If a more impactful movie is entombed within its excessive three hour runtime, the editorially undisciplined A Hidden Life is still Terrence Malicks m .. Flickering Myth
1.5
may be visually beautiful, in a mountains in the mist way. But what is it saying What is it doing And oh, dear God, is he showing us those mountains a .. Time
4.2
A film that achieves the miraculous feat of both jibing at religious institutions, while celebrating faith as something that transcends them, somethin .. The Film Stage
4.4
The film is overlong but worthy, with Malicks by now standard cinematic tics couples frolicking idyllically in meadows, murmured pensees on the soundt .. Boston Globe
4.5
Its a decision Malick memorializes beautifully, in a film that is his most affecting effort in almost a decade. The Atlantic
5.0
A Hidden Life is a work of genius, at last a justification of Malicks late style. Standard
0.5
Watching A Hidden Life feels like both going to church and performing penance, like Terrence Malick wants us to submit to the same ideological journey .. Pajiba
3.5
Its an environmental daydream and a human nightmare rolled into one, Mother Nature vs. human nature, and Malick delivers it with purpose. Detroit News
3.8
Terrence Malick returns with his most straightforward, meditative take on God and morality in years. Consequence Of Sound
4.5
A Hidden Life is everything Malicks devotees could want from a movie: beautiful, poetic, hewing closely to films like Days of Heaven and Tree of Life. Vox
4.5
At last, the return to form that Malicks loyal acolytes have spent most of this decade awaiting with an unshakable faith befitting the matter at hand .. The Play List
5.0
Its a supreme act of hope appearing in the middle of a period of collective hopelessness. Gorgeous, too. Film Freak Central
5.0
Malicks latest meditation on life, faith and dignity is his strongest since The Tree Of Life. Now Toronto
3.0
The drama lacks inner tension. Rather than wrestling with himself, as other Malick heroes do, Franz remains a noble waxwork helplessly true to his own .. The Age
5.0
Call it a return to a conventional narrative, if you want to, this is still 100 percent Malick. Not a retreat or a return to the old days, but a defin .. Cine Vue
3.0
A Hidden Life looks fantastic, the acting is impressive but as a slice of storytelling its almost stubbornly protracted, and offers little insight int .. Raidió Teilifís Éireann
4.0
An exquisitely emotional and thorough account of an individual resisting state fascism. Lw Lies
4.5
Malicks message is clear: vanquishing evil requires individuals to take a stand, to recognise what is right and what is wrong. Lw Lies
4.5
A Hidden Lifes lasting power to move lies not in its belief in the inherent goodness of humanity, but in its ability to find so much beauty in the con .. Abc
4.5
A Hidden Life is a graceful and hauntingly beautiful symphony for the senses that is urgently pertinent. Nz Herald
4.0
Eyes may instinctively roll at Malicks fixation with magical dawn and dusk light confronted by real darkness, the result is his best film in years. Ft
3.0
The lasting message is that faith, familial love and natures capacity for renewal outlast even the darkest times and it comes through loud and clear. .. Ft
5.0
As imagined and filmed by Terrence Malick, A Hidden Life is a vast and meditative biopic that moves well beyond the confines of the story it is ostens .. Stuff
4.4
This is Malicks most parsable and straightforward film since Badlands. Its hardly his best. Ar Kansas Online
3.5
There is so much beauty and poetry in A Hidden Life that despite the excessive duration and the insistence of Malick to go around the same ideas, you ..
4.5
Its about faith, pure and simple though, in the end, A Hidden Life is anything but. Vanity Fair
4.5
With A Hidden Life and the story of Franz Jgersttter, the director has found the ideal vehicle for his cosmic inquiries, and has created a film that i .. Wsj
4.5
A film of artistry and emotion, thought and complexity, and a vitally relevant purpose. Matts Movie Reviews
4.0
Malicks most engaging film in years, a slow moving but spiritual portrait of a man of conscious. Unspeakably gorgeous to gaze upon and listen to. The Filmy Ap
2.8
Malick doesnt want to cheapen Franzs story by sentimentalizing it as most Hollywood productions would surely do. But in going to the opposite extreme, .. Patriot Ledger
2.5
A Hidden Life is beautiful, overlong and confounding, much like most of Malicks films, and as such this is a film that will certain move many, bore ev .. Film
4.5
Detailed and authentic, and never overstretching itself, this is a profoundly beautiful movie. Scmp
4.2
A Hidden Life is a commanding piece of cinema that lingers long after youve left the theatre. The Film Pie
3.8
You admire this man and his devotion. Youre enraged by this man because nobody in the world will know or care about his sacrifice... Chicago Sun Times
1.5
Apart from some clever use of old newsreel footage, the films three hours must be spent with distantly murmuring folks either tilling the earth or sta .. Straight
4.5
The focus required for this film allows for deeper cerebral consideration that may not only play into ones own religious concepts but the relevance it .. We Live Entertainment
5.0
Malicks style is best suited to serious stories and this one is the perfect vehicle for him to deliver a poetic, heartbreaking masterpiece. One Room With A View
3.5
A Hidden Life is definitely on the long side, and there will be people whose patience may be exhausted, but if you give yourself over to it, its a mov .. Bitly
3.0
It quickly becomes clear Franzs faith will not waver, and any suspense that the stoic farmer might bend to save his skin soon evaporates The Skinny
4.5
The film is almost a tone poem, focusing on conveying Franz and Fanis emotions as they experience an event that barely registered during the war but i .. Polygon
2.8
Were meant, I think, to see A Hidden Life as a story of a man fighting to stay true to his beliefs, but Malick never successfully suggests any real te .. Film Avclub
4.5
A Hidden Life demonstrates that a respect for beauty can itself function as a political act. The Daily Beast
5.0
Raises a great many insoluble questions, and walks us through the process by which one man tried to solve them, while leaving us plenty of space to th .. Alternate Ending
4.4
You can imagine how other filmmakers might approach this its a beautifully cinematic story but no one else would film it quite as Malick has. Seattle Times
4.5
Thanks to Malick for using such an emotionally powerful dramatic premise as the basis of his comeback. East Bay Express
3.5
Malick creates a rapturous, devastating film about the price of conscience. Seven Day Svt
2.5
Malick lets the story run long and loose at a shade under three hours, A Hidden Life features an almost overwhelming amount of scenery, and a lot of r .. National Post
4.5
Perhaps only Malick could at this historical moment make a film so overconfident in its visual and moral convictions. New Republic
3.0
One of the years most ambitious films and an arguable masterpiece, though, admittedly, your receptivity to it depends on your capacity to experience t .. Original Cin
3.0
There is no doubt that A Hidden Life is a labour of love for Malick, but it will prove a challenge for audiences willing to experience the latest work .. The Australian
3.5
While this is a good movie with strong storytelling, Malick desperately needs an editor to help him tell a constrained story. Rendy Reviews
4.4
Malick is a master at putting us through the emotional wringer that is the world around us, and A Hidden Life does so with grace. Third Coast Review
1.5
A Hidden Life is so detached from our spiritual and political needs that it feels similarly useless. National Review
4.5
Its a slow, stately film but a marvelous one, steeped in faith and emotionally replete. National Review
5.0
Attention. Needless attention. Heedless attention. We hear Hitlers voice again, cadenced, raving, distant, resting upon the hillsides as dusks last fi .. New City Film
4.5
I find this movie moving and powerful, but I felt like I could still like it more. El Pais (Spain)
2.0
It is one thing to want to create a cubist perspective with cuts that demonstrate the passage of time and the dimensions of space; another is that in ..
3.8
Malicks movie is deeply open hearted, metaphysical and ruminative. But it might have benefited from being brought down to Earth. Ap News
4.5
A mesmerizing contemplation about faith, family, and life itself. Malicks best in decades. An unshakable experience. Mid West Film Journal
2.5
This is a movie so gorgeous that every image seems suitable for framing, but its not enough. Tulsa World
4.5
It does have a certain hypnotic, cumulative power it may just be all those mountains if you can stick with it. But there is no guarantee that you will .. Spectator
4.5
Malick tells a story that is emotionally epic, employing a wide angle lens and long shots that capture the scope of these obscure lives and the extrao .. Battleship Pretension
4.5
Terrence Malick, among many other notable things about his career, has to be one of the few artists whos become more radical, introspective, and confr .. Battleship Pretension
3.0
Questions are always raised in Terrence Malicks films. Answers are far more elusive. Screen Anarchy
2.5
Vexing and infuriating, and made all the more so by how stupefyingly stunning the entire picture is, A Hidden Life needed someone to pull the visionar .. Cambridge Day
3.0
Malick takes us on another deeply spiritual journey, this time exploring the idea of resistance. Firstpost
1.3
So much of Malicks method appears aimed at distanciation of the audience... We sit outside, staring in, wondering at these strange denizens of a far a .. Film Festival Today
4.0
This makes A Hidden Life arguably the first Malick movie to include proper political commentary, meaning that this isnt just another in a very long li .. Adelaide Review
1.5
A Hidden Life is not the Palme dOr nominated masterpiece many people were hoping for from Malick, but rather a repeat of his usual mistakes... Battle Royale With Cheese
3.0
The visuals are stunningly realised and complement deep thematic and moral ideas. Yet Life is terribly undisciplined. It is the story of a selfless ma .. Impulse Gamer
4.5
If you have faith in writer director Terrence Malicks vision, youll eventually be rewarded with imagery that has the power to move mountains, and expe .. Willamette Week
2.5
Not since The Sound of Music have the Austrian Alps been such scene stealers. Film Forward
4.0
Perhaps this is what the devout refer to as a religious experience; I am not a spiritual person, but the beauty of this film moved me. Screen Zealots
1.5
As the bullets finally fly and the ropes begin to tighten, what we do know is that as much as weve failed, weve at least fooled ourselves into making .. The Spool
2.5
A Hidden Life takes all of Malicks worst instincts, some of his best, and mixes them together in an epic run time that became utterly punishing to end .. Hollywood News
4.5
As Franz, August Diehl wordlessly telegraphs the soul searching and emotional agony of his dilemma, a poignant embodiment of moral courage. Kdhx
4.4
The bright line that connects everything in A Hidden Life is the connection between Franz and Fani, how their love and their shared belief in the righ .. Movie Cricket
4.2
Malick knows the power of natures beauty as a language that transcends our spoken and written texts. visual poetry ... is becoming increasingly predic .. Looking Closer
2.5
Terrence Malick badly needs an editor. If you snip about an hour from A Hidden Life, theres an actual masterpiece somewhere in there. Worldo Free L
4.5
While we move along a straight line, the path forward remains a river of atmospheric currents condensing weeks into indelible expressions and feelings .. Jaredmobarak
4.0
Will be remembered as a magnificent introspective and bilateral test of characters. El antepenúltimo mohicano ..
3.0
The slow narrative linearity demands a patience that is not rewarded.
4.5
It earns every overwhelming moment of its (admittedly bladder bursting) 173 minute runtime, and should be high on any and all must see lists for the r .. Vanyaland
4.5
With each frame of A Hidden Life, the hills are alive with the sound of Malick. This Alpine odyssey is a return to form. That Shelf
3.5
With A Hidden Life, Malick gets a very good movie out of the true story of Franz Jgersttter.
3.5
Similar to Martin Scorseses Silence, A Hidden Life is about the internal and spiritual struggles of fighting for what you believe in. Its a visually a .. Denton Record-Chronicle
2.5
As you can expect with Malick, there are moments of transcendental beauty but at nearly three hours long, it can be a slog sitting through a one note .. The Digital Fix
5.0
Its all incredibly deep and poetic, and I would expect nothing less from a Malick film. August Diehls performance as Franz is utterly shattering, as h .. Awards Watch
4.5
Terrence Malicks latest is a magnetic, contemplative and epic film that asks big, timely questions coupled with fantastic technical credits and perfor .. Awards Watch
4.5
A Hidden Life raises filmmaking to heights that will thrill Malick fans, thanks, in part, to the camera work of his D.P., Jorg Widmer. Arts Fuse
4.8
An ecstatic, anguished three hour cinematic hymn ... I am awed by parts of The New World, The Tree of Life and To The Wonder; A Hidden Life overwhelms .. Nc Register
4.5
Malick creates series of vignettes, many of them featuring long stretches of silence, allowing his actors to play off one another as well as their sur .. Nashville Scene
2.2
Shot with a wide lens and from low angles, it swoops, pulls and pushes its way past its characters, sometimes concerned with what theyre doing and at .. Movie Show Plus
4.0
A Hidden Life stands firmly on its own accord, burnished with tremendous gravity and purpose. The Lonely Film Critic
0.5
I absolutely would not stay and watch this again, Im sorry...there is a captivating story in this, but this wasnt it... Double Toasted
3.0
Opting for a non exploitative presentation, Malick gets it right in the end, but at the expense of a lot of patience from the viewers. Always Good Movies
4.5
A Hidden Life is the perfect vessel for Malick to explore the nature of morality with a keen sense of focus absent from his past few films. Ian Thomas Malone
1.5
Without surprises, Malick does not leave aside the search of the transcendental in the image, nevertheless certain nobility is detached from each one .. Butaca Ancha
1.5
But Malicks style... doesnt always fit the narratives he pursues. And it isnt quite appropriate enough for the story he tries to tell in A Hidden Life .. Spokane7
4.5
Take your time and relish the artistry, the tension, the anxiety of choosing to follow ones conscience or choosing to go to a war one does not believe .. Ncr Online
4.0
If happy endings and superficial adventure are your thing, look elsewhere. Its Just Movies
5.0
A Hidden Life is both the most Christian and the most political of Terrence Malicks films.
4.5
Quiet and moving. It sticks to the ribs, and not just for its ecstatic message of faith and defiance, but for its stunning cinematography and moving p .. Boulder Weekly
1.5
Theres a brilliant 90 minute film hiding in this 170 minute endurance test. Asheville Movies
3.8
Malick conveys the roiling tension between the worlds sublime and monstrous aspects as no other director can, and A Hidden Life represents his most so ..
1.5
Malicks approach to profiling Jgersttter is so far removed from the typical tropes of cinematic biographies to call it that seems to almost cheapen th .. Awards Daily
5.0
Playing Franz Jgersttter, August Diehl gracefully shoulders the cruelty inflicted upon a common man who heard the better angels of our nature. Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) ..
2.5
Franz was unquestionably a hero, but his characterization here is curiously flat. Exclaim!
3.5
Malicks film gets its point across and with a classical soundtrack by James Newton Howard. Phantom Tollbooth
2.2
Malick might be telling a different story about religion, war, and martyrdom, but his meandering method of stretching 10 minutes of plot to three hour .. Texas Art & Film
3.5
Terrence Malicks style is so distinct in what works and what doesnt. Just like the rest of his films, A Hidden Life is resplendent in natural imagery, .. The Filtered Lens
2.5
An incessant torrent of images that captures fragments of moments accompanied by classical music.
4.5
As the couples situation worsens, the film improves. The contrast between the couples internal life of prayer and their external abandonment emerges. America Magazine
3.5
It quietly demands viewers wind down to become in sync with Jgersttters rural life, a world of planting and harvesting, back breaking labor and joyous .. Houston Chronicle
3.0
If nothing else, A Hidden Life is about the journey. The cinematography is stunning (think The Sound of Music, except much sadder and with more violen .. Planet S Magazine
3.5
What one gets out of it is, to a rather extreme degree, what one puts into it. Austin 360
3.8
Quietly heartbreaking and matter of factly subversive (how many of us today have what it takes to stand up to evil), A Hidden Life submerses us in one ..
1.5
I dont know if Malick intended to tell one of those uplifting stories in which personal tragedy is transmuted into a triumph of the human spirit, but .. Australian Financial Revie ..
4.5
An absorbing and often moving testament to the actions of ordinary people when confronted with the evils of the world. Rochester City Newspaper
1.5
Simple or simplistic Malick has chosen to aim for the hard clarity of a fairy tale or a moral tale here. For the spectator, its a case of: take it or .. Screen Hub
4.5
A bracing reminder of how cinema can wrestle intelligently and passionately with spirituality. Hyperallergic
4.5
The themes of resistance to fascism feel especially pertinent at this moment in time. Cineuropa
4.5
In a sea of comic adaptations, its up to Terrence Malick to save the day with this true story of a forgotten hero. Movie Network
1.5
Malicks new visual style and way of working does not flow very well through the narrative channels.
4.5
A Hidden Life is a psalm crying out to the God of refuge and deliverance. Its also a cinematic sermon on the mount, envisioning the upside down kingdo .. The Gospel Coalition
4.0
Its a beautiful work, as much about the power of everyday minutiae as it is about the torments of standing up for your beliefs. The Canberra Times
4.4
The film runs almost three hours and could certainly be shorter, but at the same time, its hard to argue it doesnt earn such an epic run time. The Oklahoman
4.5
The artistic details, philosophical discourse, social dynamics, and the focus on feelings make A Hidden Life an invaluable film. La Estatuilla
3.8
Its throbbing narrative basks, and basks, and basks in the nefarious interference of belief...and that sort of ambition, while well fostered, runs the .. Dr. Filmlove's Film Review ..
3.5
Malick fans will rejoice that he has returned to a safe place, and nonfans, who are patient, will be rewarded by the intended subtleties present in A ..
3.0
A Hidden Life offers an opposite stance different from Martin Scorseses Silence... a real life testimonial of a believer while in the face of persecut ..
4.5
A Hidden Life is one of Malicks best films, a compelling, beautifully shot tale of someone doing what is right despite the risk. St. Louis Jewish Light



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