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2006
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Positive Reviews
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Negative reviews
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Average Rating
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3.0
Now we can add this magnificent (and magnificently flawed) specimen to a prized collection of Malick movies that explore what it means to be an Americ ..
EW
5.0
Perhaps you know the story, but if you dont, Ill let the movie fill in the details.
Rogerebert
4.5
Fritz Langs laughable but effective and long celebrated 1945 answer to.
Austin Chronicle
5.0
The exquisiteness of The New World and how it reveals itself to its audience is flabbergasting...like a heretofore unknown cave painting impeccably pr ..
5.0
Its something at first sight, but why should we be hasty when the director is never hasty.Thats because Malick is of the introspective sort.
5.0
A sweeping historical narrative and exquisitely renderedlove story, Terrence Malicks The New World is a majestic, electrifying feature experience that ..
Screen Daily
2.5
Its a lovely thing, and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki captures the beauty while also literalizing Malicks transcendental mindset.
4.5
Here, though, you feel as if you are eavesdropping inside the characters heads.
The New York Times
4.5
characters must consider their lives, consider each other, and resolve the situation like adults. And when they do, a story that seemed to be irredeem ..
Paste Magazine
5.0
The New World carries the sense of discovery that comes with seeing a densely layered work of art for the first time, a work that speaks personally to ..
E Film Critic
0.0
If it were any more obtuse, The New World would be a flipbook where the moving picture was obscured by a thumb drawn over the stick figures.
E Film Critic
4.5
His great asset is a subtle face that is never histrionic when conveying competing emotions.
Telegraph
5.0
Its dull and then dazzling, dull and then brilliant, dull and then awe inspiring.It lulls viewers into a pleasant trance and then interrupts that tran ..
San Francisco Chronicle
4.0
What could be a dry history lesson is turned into something unique and quietly heartfelt.
2.0
Its beautiful, the scenery is often compelling and theres plenty of it.
Cinema Blend
3.1
A Terence Malick film remains an event, but he appears awfully disoriented in The New World less a seasoned traveller than a perplexed tourist, conten ..
The Globe And Mail
4.0
The heart and the soul of the film is the lovely and vivacious performance by QOrianka Kilcher as Pocohontas.
Spirituality And Practice
2.0
Pretty much a mess a woozy, sometimes inspired but mostly infuriating piece far more interested in conveying mood than information.
One Guys Opinion
2.0
Whatever its drawbacks, its a film that stays with you and deserves many viewings.
Sover
3.8
This film is beautiful to look at, but that should come as no surprise.
ReelViews
5.0
Its a welcome act of artistic lunacy and a messy masterpiece that deserves a life well beyond the current awards season.
Combust Ible Celluloid
3.0
Robin Clifford Laura Clifford Three small ships cross the vast expanse of the Atlantic Ocean and land on what will become the Jamestown colony.It is 1 ..
2.5
The ponderous narrative lacks so much focus that it will likely leave most viewers squirming in their seats.
Usa Today
3.1
That sound youre about to hear is the cracking of spines as Terrence Malick enthusiasts like me bend over backward trying to cut The New World a break ..
Usa Today
3.0
Nonetheless, this stunningly beautiful film is mesmerizing to watch.
Lariat
3.0
I like it better thinking about it than I did while I was watching it.It is very much what they call an art film.
Eric Ds Nider
2.0
The rest of us (and we are legion) will find all of Malicks customary quirks and mannerismsthe disdain for conventional narrative structure, the beaut ..
News Review
4.5
In this filmmaking style, performances seem somewhat superficial, but the cast add depth through glances and internalised emotion.
Shadows On The Wall
4.5
The New World is more mundane than Malicks previous films, in part because the myth it takes on remains disturbingly intact.
Pop Matters
2.0
Its barely a movie in the traditional sense at all, functioning better as a sort of tone poem rather than a historical drama.
View London
3.0
Malick has a gorgeous talent for capturing supernal landscapes, for conveying their sorrow, and it would be a loss if he stopped directing again at a ..
Cs Monitor
4.5
Terrence Malick doesnt make movies; he creates celluloid performance art.
Film Journal International ..
3.1
Both Englishmen are enigmatic characters, however, and it is Pocahontas who rises as most memorable.
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
3.1
Terrence Malicks classical music video is certain to induce Zen like trances in audiences everywhere.
Internet Reviews
5.0
A revisionist telling of the Pocahontas story, it also gets its knuckles dirty in the myths that have sustained America since the very first landfall, ..
Boston
3.5
Theres never even a whiff of corporate thought, demographics or the sense of a movie made by a committee merely writer director Malicks personal visio ..
Mountain X
3.1
Jose Luis Magana, Associated Press The courtroom showdown brought Rick Gates face to face with his longtime business associate and fellow Trump campai ..
Star Tribune
3.1
He swoons for his own well honed image as a painter of woodland idylls, a man who leaves no sway of wheat or ripple of water unmet by his fatherly gaz ..
Toronto Star
2.0
The long chapter that follows is one of the most poetic and beautiful courtships seen in American films.
Emanuellevy
3.5
Reactions will turn on whether viewers like impressionistic or definitive film experiences, on whether gesturing toward the ineffable holds more appea ..
Reel Talk Reviews
2.5
While it is certainly refreshing to see a filmmaker of considerable talents approach an oft told tale from a different perspective, Malick doesnt mana ..
Q Network
2.5
Some of the set pieces are so down and gritty that you can never really notice what Malick has accomplished in terms of scale.
Cinema Crazed
4.5
The New World isnt Terrence Malicks best, but its guiding him in the right direction.
Slate
2.5
NEW WORLD, THE SYNOPSIS: In 1607 from the settlement of Virginias Jamestown, soldier of fortune John Smith (Colin Farrell) leads an expedition, but is ..
4.5
If youre looking for a this happened and then this happened movie narrative, this will be a two hours plus lesson in patience.
Movies
2.5
... while its a big improvement on his previous effort, Malick seems like hes still finding his bearings after that 20 year sabbatical.
Flim Threet
4.0
You would be hard pressed to find a film with a more authentic sense of period than The New World.
Bbc
4.0
This time of year, the interests of Hollywood folks travel on parallel tracks: totting up the blockbusters and anticipating the Oscars.
Time
4.5
Toward the end of Terrence Malicks elegiac film, The New World, the young Indian princess known as Pocahontas the delight and darling of her father, t ..
The New York Times
1.0
Most frustrating of all is the heavy use of internal dialogue by the films principal actors.
Bullz-Eye
5.0
Movies offer us wildly divergent stories with vivid, close up emotions, and so did the six fimmakers we invited to take part in the Envelope Directors ..
Calendar Live
2.0
Like its predecessors, its a richly textured, leisurely paced, visually impressionistic epic of the American past that fairly hypnotizes the viewer wi ..
Seattle Pi
1.0
Its too bad such a lovingly faithful recreation is wasted on such a dismal movie.
Tony Medley
2.0
Malicks body modified American Indians look more like bohemian ravers from the final Matrix movie than like any Native Americans who ever walked on th ..
Coles Mithey
3.8
For this and this alone Mallick should be applauded. His epic of an old world giving up and a new one taking over isnt a masterpiece. But it is differ ..
Movie Freak
4.5
At its heart, though, it is a romance, and a romance done in the poetic cinema style Malick has been moving towards since his return to active filmmak ..
1.0
Using the term epic is probably already giving the film more than its due.
1.5
But Malick cant decide whether hes making a nature film, a love story or an action/adventure flick.
Cnn
4.4
Director Terence Malick has imagined what it might have been like and created it on film.
Movie Habit
2.0
Word has it that director Malick pulled the film from distribution right after Christmas in order to cut it down by 17 minutes. If only he had cut out ..
7M Pictures
4.5
Sumptuous photography and production design, stunning sound design and period recreation so convincing that it sometimes seems to have replicated an a ..
Boxoffice Magazine
3.0
Terrence Malick uses their heat and his own sensually overloaded love of landscape photography to make the unpleasant early days of American culture c ..
E Online
4.5
The movie is less a historical drama punctuated by ecstatic landscapes than a stunning landscape film that pauses every once in a while to tell a stor ..
La Weekly
4.5
But, again, Malick invests it with a uniqueness, a sense of actuality and a tension thats wholly appropriate.Yes, this is how an initial intersection ..
Varia Gate
1.9
Little things like a script and story clearly take a back seat to visuals in this movie.
Three Movie Buffs
3.8
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Kansas City
2.5
The tale may be perfectly suited to Malicks languorous cinematography and portentous voice over narration, but by now these elements have begun to res ..
Larsen On Film
5.0
the cinematic equivalent of a tone poem with an emotional impact that works on more than the conscious level. This is history that is not just seen, b ..
Killer Movie Reviews
5.0
It is about the dreams we have when we are awake but in a state of absolute peace and perfect self reflection.
Antagony & Ecstasy
5.0
And most importantly, its the Terrence Malick masterpiece I, for one, have been waiting for.
Big Picture Big Sound
1.3
Malick forsakes storytelling, drama and tension to show the pretty trees time and time and time and time again.
Waffle Movies
4.0
The New World Synopsis The New World is an epic adventure set amid the encounter of European and Native American cultures during the founding of the J ..
Movie Web
3.8
Unfortunately, these ideas dont inspire that much thought or emotion.
Montreal Film Journal
5.0
The reward is moments of transcendent beauty.What gets sacrificed is structure.
News Week
4.5
You will be able to save yourself from getting disappointed of watching nothing but a lame movie.
Window To The Movies
3.1
Farrell is suitably intense but also tight lipped and internalized.Bales selfless tobacco grower is even more of a soulless narrative device, not a fl ..
Chron
5.0
And it has a feeling of rare authenticity in its mood, language and treatment of Native American life.
Film Guardian
3.5
One can look at a film like his towering 2005 work The New World and easily see a gorgeous parable about a pure land being slowly and tragically dimin ..
Crave Online
4.4
Malicks typically unhurried and measured pace is wholly appropriate for The New World, which expresses the awe of discovery and re invents no less tha ..
Scene Stealers
2.0
Rather than writing my own words on the final scenes of the film, it should be noted that Scott Tobias of the AV Club summed it up better than I ever ..
Movie Mezzanine
4.5
... a film that flows like a great symphony, that sweeps you into its meditative current and guides you toward one epiphany after another.
Or Lando Weekly
2.0
Where does her heart truly belong.What would be a foregone conclusion in almost any other film receives generous and thoughtful consideration here.
Decent Films
2.0
Its by no means the longest movie ever made, but its one of the longest movies ever made in which next to nothing ever happens and barely a word is sp ..
Guide Live
2.5
This early effort remains an interesting part of Coppolas filmography certainly more than such latter day stinkbombs as Jack and Youth Without Youth.
Clclt
3.0
Lubezki captures striking and unique terrain in quite memorable fashion, but unfortunately it will be ultimately lost in the plethora of problems evid ..
From The Balcony
4.0
An epic retelling of the Pocahontas story that, despite its flaws, leaves you slack jawed with wonder at times.
Film4
3.0
...the romance of the three humans is secondary to the romance of the New World itself and all it symbolizes.
Movie Metropolis
4.4
He understands the emotional power of stillness like no director going, and the stunning beauty of The New World makes it more the pity Malick himself ..
Denver Post
3.0
Malick comes out with a movie about once every ten years, but I think Ive had about enough. You can keep him.
Film Blather
3.1
Malicks screenplay seems intent on keeping all of these people at arms length, as if they were wax figures in a museum, separated from the public by t ..
James Sanford on Film
1.5
Rumored to be on a scale as grand as Titanic, I must say Malick succeeded if he was going for the events of the ship and not the success of James Came ..
2.5
We want you to be happy!.What if I do a mailing and get returned mail
Movie Eye
3.0
And yet although an impressionistic filmmaker for whom tone, rhythm and the interplay between light and dark are as important as plot coherence, Malic ..
Nicks Chager
0.5
The only question Malick seems to offer here is how many people will actually sit through this two and a half hour Calvin Klein ad.
Vulture
1.5
After being terribly miscast and exceedingly uncomfortable as Alexander the Great, Farrell is perfectly at ease with the challenges of John Smith
IGN Movies
2.0
ill be cheered by a relatively small, but educated and curious contingent of ticket buyers.
Compuserve
5.0
Simply put, a Malick film is worth waiting for, andvalidates the anticipation as the most splendiferous profusion of cinematic expressiveness to emerg ..
Cine Passion
3.0
Kilcher is pitch perfect as the iconic Native American, and the characters slowly dwindling life essence is one of the most heartbreaking character ar ..
Film Jerk
5.0
If that wasnt enough, Malick ingeniously uses Mozarts delicate Piano Concerto No.
Patrick Nabarro
5.0
Scene for radiant scene, shot for nary a wasted shot, The New World is the most artfully sculpted film in American cinema this year.
Premiere Magazine
5.0
A probing, lyrical exploration of what makes us as humans, as Americans, as inhabitants of this mortal plane who we are.
From the Front Row
3.5
More video evidence has emerged that pieces together what exactly happened during a postgame scuffle that followed LSUs 74 72, seven overtime loss to ..
2 The Advocate
4.4
Malick doesnt so much tell a story as he does transport us to another time and place.
Stardem
1.9
Self indulgent sludge dressed up as shimmering historical aesthetics and paced as briskly as a swim across the Atlantic.
Chicago Tribune
3.0
transformation from an innocent in Eden to a stranger in a strange land and back again is a remarkable bit of largely nonverbal acting.
Reel Times: Reflections on ..
4.5
As an artist of integrity Malick is too honest to be satisfied with the simple minded equation, Native Peoples=good, Western Civilization=bad.
World Socialist Web Site
5.0
The New World is a thing of wild beauty, untamed and feral yet luxurious, sumptuous and lavish all at the same time.
Brandon Fibbs
5.0
There are so many mysteries in this film, and Malicks greatest achievement was to suggest them without forcing answers on us.
Gost Dog
2.0
Its the most inaccessable film Ive seen in a while, but is not without its merits. Emmanuel Lubezki should win a cinematography Oscar, but wont...Brok ..
Supercala.com
4.5
Terrence Malick takes this well known story and weaves it into a visually stunning look at how the settlers and natives did and did not get along.
San Diego Metropolitan
2.7
By the end of The New World all I had were flashbacks to Mystery Science Theater as I hissed at the screen, Tom Servo style, End! End!
Chud
5.0
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Nyc Film Critic
3.1
Terence Malick makes films so rarely that his fans want every one to be a masterpiece. Alas, The New World falls far short of the mark.
3.5
Malicks own Days of Heaven is sometimes cited as the most beautifully photographed film of all time, but to my mind Emmanuel Chivo Lubezkis work on Th ..
Not Coming
1.5
Although the erroneously inflected dialogue in the film is sparse, it makes up for it with visual ambition.
3.8
A movie that is at once prosaic and abstract, breathtakingly beautiful and excruciatingly obvious, compelling contemplative and deadly dull.
Freep
3.0
A few slow moments are well worth it for the beautiful experience Malick gives us in The New World.
rachelsreviews.net
5.0
Its beautiful, and gloriously refreshing so unique, in fact, its hard to believe any studio actually gave him the money to craft such an unlikely achi ..
3.0
If you abandon your popcorn movie diet where everything barrels along at such a fast clip, youll discover a lovely and painstakingly detailed treasure ..
Contra Costa Times
5.0
Leonard Cline, in his wonderful pulper The Dark Chamber, probably put it best: There is nothing in the world more devastating and unanswerable than a ..
Stop Smiling Online
4.5
Though The Tree of Life garnered more attention and accolades, The New World is the better film, not only because it sticks the landing, but also due ..
Review Film Review
5.0
Calling Malicks films cinematic poetry is almost trite by now.It certainly is a tired expression.
Aint It Cool
2.5
In Malicks hands, Pocahontas story becomes a metaphoric seduction straight out of Nabokov.
1.3
A two and a half hour cinematic mosaic meant by Malick more as a monument to himself than to the misrepresented maiden it presumes to memorialize.
5.0
4/13 The Terence Davies Trilogy (Terence Davies, 1984) 1/2 DVD, 5th Davies film The first part covers a lot of exposition and territory thats so famil ..
4.5
If I think Im mostly going to keep coming back to cut (and I do hope, someday soon, for a Mr. Arkadin like 3 cuts comparative DVD set) its because it ..
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