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U/A (INDIA)
2011
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3.0
Yet The Tree Of Life isnt despairing about it in the least; its a genuine attempt to grasp the transcendent, and the rare religious film that deserves ..
Av Club
2.0
The Tree of Life remains, for a time, thrillingly impressionistic, eschewing any semblance of conventional narrative in favor of a fragmentary approac ..
Av Club
4.5
He then settles into a fine evocation of one familys life in 50s Waco, where a scolding, autocratic father (Brad Pitt) and a gently permissive mother ..
Av Club
5.0
What Malick does in Tree of Life is create the span of lives. Of birth, childhood, the flush of triumph, the anger of belittlement, the poison of rese ..
Rogerebert
5.0
But Malicks astoundingly potent physical poetry makes all this spring to life; its a movie to be felt and experienced deeply.
Common Sense Media
3.0
Few other filmmakers can work on this scale without some compromises, but Malick manages to deviate from his cross generational family drama with cosm ..
Indie Wire
2.0
While stunning effects, atmosphere and abstract artistry make this film a unique experience, I feel its bizarre experimental style and ultimate pointl ..
We Got This Covered
3.0
Taken alone, the films imagery should give great pleasure to Malicks fans and newcomers alike.
Time Out
5.0
Still, that disparity proves minor, given that its couched amid a wide ranging, detail oriented (though never fetishistic) portrait of post WWII life.
4.4
And what if the whispered voiceover that gives expression to the characters secret thoughts is excessively precious, too precise in its minimalism, pe ..
4.5
Its most definitely a profound and shape shifting work, a towering examination of the way light and sound both comfort and repel.
3.1
Both good and bad, great and fatally flawed, transporting and disappointingly literal.
5.0
A cinematic symphony more than a classic narrative film, Terrence Malicks long awaited The Tree Of Life has moments of breathtaking visual and aural b ..
Screen Daily
1.5
It is slow, ponderous, obtuse, stranger, and bewitching, and it doesnt always hit its mark.
Collider
5.0
Life doesnt answer these questions but fashions a relationship between its big picture perspective and its intimate story that crucially serves the fi ..
The Hollywood Reporter
4.0
It is also strongly impressionistic, and perceptions of the film can be as variable as the play of light rippling through a trees branches.Even the co ..
4.3
Its as much a meditation as a narrative, asking a tremendous amount of patience from viewers and rewarding that patience with something entirely new.
Paste Magazine
3.8
Its a striking segment of cinema that is also the closest Malick comes to striking an emotional chord connected with the death that permeates closer w ..
E Film Critic
1.5
We were still discussing the film 45 minutes later, when the lobby had to be cleared. This is what Malick does.
Telegraph
2.5
Or are satisfying drama and deep emotional connection what draws you in
5.0
If someone gave you, as a gift, a bag of diamonds and rocks, you would not see it as a mixed bag..You would see it as a bag of diamonds with some rock ..
San Francisco Chronicle
5.0
The very execution poses its own spiritual enquiry how can such beauty be created in a meaningless void
4.5
But it also works best in moments when it is most specific about its characters and its purpose; while Malicks unfocused lyrical energy is one of the ..
Cinema Blend
4.0
The Tree of Life is long, often redundant and certainly on its own wavelength. But movies so rarely provoke serious consideration and debate.
Ny Daily News
4.5
It is a heart wrenching moment that feels impossibly honest, yet shrouded in fantasy.
JoBlo
4.0
However, setting aside the beautiful cinematography and emotional performances, does the overarching film showcase skillful direction and provide a me ..
Screen Rant
3.8
Malick takes us on a journey from the very birth of the universe to its current flawed state, with a stopover to a family in small town Texas circa th ..
The Globe And Mail
5.0
Its practically a miracle that Terrence Malick keeps making movies.
Philly
3.0
You can say that Hollywood is a godless realm, but you cant say that of Malicks universe.
Philly
5.0
No need for baggage; everything is within.Wisdom is your compass, curiosity your spark!
Spirituality And Practice
2.0
A pretty deadly affair...exactly the sort of picture one might expect from a reclusive filmmaker whos been told for years hes a great artist and has c ..
One Guys Opinion
5.0
Thats Life: Brad Pitt emerges.Merie Wallace and 2011 Twentieth Century Fox Film Including glimpses of Sleeping Beauty in her glass coffin, the rings o ..
Village Voice
1.9
Terrence Malick is still making poetry in that most prosaic of worlds, the movies.But is there a place for the director of Days of Heaven and The New ..
Rogers Movie Nation
3.0
If you find the storyline trite or tedious, you still might be engaged by its sheer beauty and come away admiring it for its audacity to be so confoun ..
Sover
4.4
Nevertheless, the overall impression one has of the film is that its breathtakingly beautiful and dramatically potent.That it falls short of being a m ..
ReelViews
5.0
A masterpiece, this fifth feature by Terrence Malick manages to reconcile the emotional force of his 70s classics,and, with the epic naturalism of his ..
Chicago Reader
5.0
The films gorgeous interlude of creation and evolution and its equally enigmatic valediction are key to Malicks thesis.
Mark Reviews Movies
3.0
But this is also a film which can probably not be entirely settled with one viewing.
3.8
By the time the striking yet baffling finale which features the films various characters converging on a celestial () beach rolls around, The Tree of ..
Reel Film Reviews
3.0
Im not sure all these elements really hang together all that well to make a complete whole, but I am giving this film extra credit for being so incred ..
Lariat
3.0
It aims to invoke feelings and emotions more than concrete ideas, and so the specific details dont matter much.
Eric Ds Nider
4.0
Many will find it ponderous and indulgent, but too often modern cinema is efficient and focus grouped. The work of Terrence Malick becomes ever more v ..
Radio Times
5.0
Others will call it pretentious junk, whereas some will label it a masterpiece.
Screen It
4.0
You have to admire Terrence Malicks cussedness and perversity. No other major American filmmaker, not even Stanley Kubrick at his most wilful, has eve ..
Independent
4.4
Artistic ambition can be a bitch for filmmakers.Mainstream audiences yawn you off.
Rolling Stone
4.5
In other words, the film is achingly beautiful, more like an essay about existence than a narrative drama.
Shadows On The Wall
4.0
The Nature of Imitation is the sound of Dorian Concept systematically deconstructing various genres, stripping them back to the bones underneath and t ..
Pop Matters
2.0
In the fantasy world of AI populated Westworld, unchecked humankind regresses into violence toward the Other just as we do in the chaotic real world.
Pop Matters
5.0
Beautifully shot, stunningly edited and superbly acted, Malicks long awaited latest project is part childhood memoir, part metaphysical fantasy and pa ..
View London
3.0
Its a phenomenal artwork but, for all its solar flares, its cold to the touch.
Cs Monitor
4.4
Partly inspired by photography from the Hubble Space Telescope and co supervised by Douglas Trumbull (the legendary special effects genius behind 2001 ..
New York Post
0.5
With a groundbreaking mixture of old fashioned paint techniques and up to the minute CGI that could have Spielberg and Cameron taking notes, Malick sh ..
Film Journal International ..
4.0
Its cinematically risky, but I found it stunning.Others will find it absurd.
Az Central
3.1
This movie weighs so much, yet contains so little. Its all vault and little coin.
Boston
5.0
But if youre open to letting the imagery wash over you, to allowing yourself to get sucked into the films rhythms and fluidly undulating tones, youll ..
Boston
4.5
The film is phenomenally beautiful and moving but its like an accusation: what have we lost
Smh
4.5
IN HIS previous film, The New World (2005), Terrence Malick went to the 17th century to imagine the relations between Native Americans and their Briti ..
Smh
2.5
At the very heart of Terrence Malicks The Tree of Life is what could have been one of the films of the year.
Smh
4.0
Yet it felt right andI think this is importantit never felt like a purely nostalgic wallow.
Mountain X
5.0
The film is gorgeous and abstract, leaping around in time and space, structured in movements and more like a symphony than a conventional narrative.
Npr
5.0
The Tree of Life, the demanding new film from writer/director Terrence Malick, will stretch every viewers boundaries.Its a flawed but impressive exper ..
Star Tribune
4.5
God could have, maybe, except hes busy making Jupiter, like, totally magnificent: superpretty picture there.
5.0
Theyre among the emotions prompted by the cascade of images in something thats closer to epic poetry than to anything resembling narrative cinema.
Toronto Star
3.0
Malick depicts all of these layers without ever altering the feeling that this is an intimate and poignant family story.
Emanuellevy
5.0
I find it shockingly cheesy and cant quite reconcile it with other sublime passages in the same film.
Guardian
5.0
But this is visionary cinema on an unashamedly huge scale: cinema thats thinking big.
Guardian
5.0
Its assembly alone makes a case for its achieving cinematic heights.
Reel Talk Reviews
5.0
A lyrical, semi autobiographical evocation of the joys and pains of life, the film weaves together all of Malicks strengths as a filmmaker into a stun ..
Q Network
5.0
Director Malicks message is also for those enduring the grief of loss merely implicating that life has to go on.
Cinema Crazed
5.0
But the astronomical flashback isnt without a measure of wit as well; the sheer scope of it is a kind of joke on the impossibility of storytelling.The ..
Slate
4.5
One cannot produce art and please everyone.This is, however, a stunning film, Malicks greatest work to date, and it demonstrates that cinema is still ..
Eye For Film
2.0
After the death of a child and its momentous horror for the parents, we are sped into a universe with its immense power, size and natures moral and em ..
4.5
Its a stunning, surreal, extraordinary epic that will dazzle yet perhaps dumbfound art house audiences.
Susang Ranger
4.0
And in the summer, your brain might welcome that kind of exercise.
Movies
3.0
Its meant to be heavy and poignant but it plays more like something from one of those trippy late 60s movies like Can Heironymous Merkin Ever Forget M ..
Movies
5.0
If you wait long enough, a new Terrence Malick film comes around.
New Yorker
2.0
The Tree Of Life is director Terrence Malicks years in the making exploration of life, the universe and everything, a beautiful but meandering mess th ..
Express
3.0
The new edition gives a deeper imprint to various threads of the original, ultimately sculpting a more affecting, fleshed out picture of a story that ..
The Film Stage
4.4
American films most ardent naturalist here offers alternately blunt and allusive spiritual inquiries in which several characters, grieving the loss of ..
Chicago Tribune
2.0
Its a pretty masterful symphony of breathtaking images that not even the greatest NOVA or Discovery Channel special could hope to replicate (including ..
Bullz-Eye
4.5
Tree of life Tree of sanctimonious mopey male egotism disguised as a search for meaning, more like.
Flickfilosopher
5.0
Spider Man: Far From Home release date, cast, trailer, and everything else you need to know Feature Your first look at the Spider Man: Far From Home p ..
Total Film
5.0
Such proclamations occasionally prompt the film to teeter between pretension and naivete, Heidegger and Hallmark.But Malicks gifts are such that it re ..
The Atlantic
2.0
For long stretches the film fawns over Hubble inspired images from the vast reaches of outer space.Mammoth colorful nebula groove in iridescent deligh ..
Coles Mithey
4.4
It is a cosmic metaphor for life at its ugliest and most beautiful, intimately discussing ideas and concepts many have thought about but few know the ..
Movie Freak
3.0
The vision is dazzling. The portrayal of family life palpable. The ending ... well, lets go back to the vision.
Detroit News
4.0
Its absolutely gorgeous visuals whether its images from the Hubble telescope or watching photo realistic dinosaurs in their natural habitat.
5.0
wants to see so much: people and through people to their souls, the world and through the world to the ineffable, life and death and through them to t ..
Groucho Reviews
4.5
Benedict Cumberbatch Wants You To Know He *Is* The Motherf*cking Grinch The Grinch star takes Mike Ryan through the final scenes of Avengers: Infinity ..
Hit Fix
5.0
This is a movie that will lodge itself in your mind on a permanent basis, a haven to which your thoughts will journey in the days and years to come.So ..
Herald Sun
4.4
Both sharply smart and maddeningly elusive, its yet another film by a great director working at the height of his powers to do something genuinely new ..
Nj
5.0
The imagery of The Tree of Life is often designed to inspire awe and wonder.
Movie Habit
5.0
Its as if every life amounts to a whispered question that always remains unanswered.I dont totally understand Malicks spirituality.
Movie Habit
0.5
Malick thinks hes an artist. And thats his problem. He knows hes an artist, and hes wallowing in his own artistic waste.
7M Pictures
5.0
Look, the real wonder of WW84 is that this maybe isnt the worst thing about it.
Film Freak Central
4.4
Its an experience that stays with you, getting you thinking about the deepest recesses of space, the farthest reaches of time and what it all means.
Film School Rejects
4.0
In fact its easily one of the most tediously boring, self absorbed, bloated and pretentious films I have ever seen.
Cine Vue
4.0
You got me, although that early Biblical quote, those creation scenes and the films title suggest it may be about man coming to terms with life and de ..
Mirror
3.0
There may be a masterpiece here, somewhere beneath the puzzlement and beyond the patience of what will be a lot of moviegoers. In that regard, the fil ..
Tamp A Bay
1.5
It feels like Malick made the film for himself, rather than for an audience.
Abc
4.0
The Tree of Life may be abstract and unconventional, but its staggeringly beautiful and admirably demands its audience to think long and hard about wh ..
Digital Spy
4.0
Its confounding, borderline pretentious, stuff, but theres no denying the emotional weight it lends imagine flicking through a Bible and someones baby ..
Flicks
1.9
This boring, frustrating movies not a rumination on kids learning about the worlds contradictions and tragedies; its a hollow, incoherent display of v ..
Red Eye Chicago
4.5
Malick has created a space for audience members to meditate on God, life, the universe and everything. What you do with it, is up to you.
Stl Today
5.0
The Tree of Life is rooted in human nature but ascends to the infinite mystery. Its a dizzying climb with few footholds for the timid or cynical, but ..
Stl Today
3.0
Some may find its lack of structure confounding, its themes ponderous.
Cleve Land
2.5
This perfectionistic adherence sucks the deeper emotions and messy unpredictability of ones day to day existence from the proceedings and gives the fi ..
Dustin Put Man
5.0
I can understand why some viewers would have trouble with the movies cosmological flourishes.Yet therein lies its greatness.
Larsen On Film
5.0
Eschewing traditional cinematic narrative, Life is structured in movements.
Christianity Today
5.0
Certainly the cinematography by Emmanuel Lubezki is gorgeous, capturing Malicks signature love of nature and sense of awe at its force and guilelessne ..
Hollywood And Fine
3.0
As a film its nothing if not bold and the second half is the work of Malick The Genius but if you decide to go, just dont expect a narrative.
The Sun
4.0
What is certain is that Malick has captured grace, beauty, anger and longing in a way seldom if ever has been done before.
Matts Movie Reviews
3.0
It takes a PhD in Malickian madness to even approach this bewildering creation.
Brian Or Ndorf
3.0
But even if you hate it, I guarantee youll walk away from the shade of The Tree of Life with a renewed appreciation for what it means to be a part of ..
Patriot Ledger
5.0
It is not demanding more of The Tree of Life than it can withstand to call it the defining film of Terrence Malicks whole life.
Antagony & Ecstasy
5.0
May not be the best film of 2011, but it will most certainly be one of the most unforgettable.
2.0
We are prompted through striking imagery, a beautiful soundtrack and strong religious overtones.
The Film Pie
4.8
No tears will probably be shed here because neither Debby nor Gordon is a well developed character.
Nyc Movie Guru
3.8
The result is a work of imagination and artistry, if not always complete clarity.
Js Online
5.0
But if you truly give in to the beauty of this amazing film, you might even find yourself changed by it.How often can you say that at the cinema
Hollywood Chicago
4.5
Viridianas unblinking vision of a world without true innocence isnt misanthropic, but powerfully, unapologetically humanea black comedy without pity o ..
The Ringer
3.0
True, its the sort of nebulous fare that has critics salivating and average movie goers approaching it like a plate of cinematic greens.But how often ..
Sky
3.5
To be sure, the subjective nature of the film will not resonate with all audiences a smattering of audible boos greeted the end credits at its debut s ..
Sbs
4.0
At any rate, its not half as abstract or impenetrable as I feared.Forget any concept of linear narrative, puny mortal Terrence Malick cares not for st ..
The Shiz Nit
5.0
The Tree of Life wont resonate with everyone, but viewers approaching it with an open mind and a curious spirit may feel it touching their soul in a w ..
The Skinny
5.0
This is challenging, breathtaking, pretentious, and inspired filmmaking that pushes the boundaries of conventional storytelling to its breaking point.
Scene Stealers
3.0
All of this is both one experience and every experience.Everything is incredible.
Movie Mezzanine
4.5
Malicks brilliantly acted and photographed film evokes the emotional turmoil of childhood, its resentment, pains and joys, in a way that few other fil ..
What So
5.0
But its a mark of how absolutely gorgeous the film preceding it is that it didnt leave me sour.
Or Lando Weekly
5.0
I want to see what you see..Would anyone but Malick even attempt a glimpse
reason
2.5
Possibly it reinforces our awareness that finding any sort of path through life is a pretty overwhelming business, but this is not a terribly radical ..
Film 4
5.0
Malicks moral themes stretch back even to the prehistoric sequence.
Decent Films
5.0
Enter the Void is a remarkable film, but ultimately fails to make this inevitable universal experience resonate emotionally.
Streaming Quickflix
4.5
If the director had released a new movie every two years instead of every seven or eight, we probably would have tired of these shenanigans long ago.
East Bay Express
1.5
Scenes build up seemingly without meaning, until it becomes clear who Jacks father has become, and you find yourself sympathizing with both sides. Its ..
3.0
A young couple raises three boys in the 1950s. Both Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain as the couple function from textbook gender roles, like Father Know ..
1.5
But The Tree of Life is about the mystery of the universe and beyond.Its about primordial ooze.
Tony Mack
5.0
The Tree of Life evokes the defining presence and absence of mom more vividly than any other film I know.
Movie Metropolis
5.0
This is Malicks big one, his long gestating answer to 2001 and Paradise Lost, and its wedded to his (maybe) autobiographical Oedipal family drama of l ..
Ny Mag
4.5
If you cant put your devices out of the room and set up an undisturbed, cinema like setting in which to watch it, dont bother.
National Review
5.0
An audacious and powerful work that is aesthetically gorgeous, thematically fascinating and emotionally devastating in equal measure
Tiny Url
5.0
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Fan The Fire Magazine
5.0
The Tree of Life needs to be seen. Even if it is just because youve never seen anything like it before.
Tri City Herald
5.0
Its his transfixing and arresting visual style that both endears and enrages audiences of Malicks films.
Trespass Mag
2.0
While I was writing this I learned that The Tree of Life had won the Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival...I can only assume that the judges were al ..
Media Mikes
1.5
Its about emotion through visuals and thats exactly where it excels.
4.5
Twentieth Century Fox) Oceans, sand dunes, poetry, light patterns, human birth, birth of stars, whispered philosophies, choirs, volcanoes, clouds, wat ..
Theepoch Times
2.0
And there still museums with pay what you wish admission, if not every day, then on certain days weekly or monthly.You just have to know who offers wh ..
New York Time Out
2.0
And there still museums with pay what you wish admission, if not every day, then on certain days weekly or monthly.You just have to know who offers wh ..
New York Time Out
4.4
Oceans 8 isnt so much a reboot of the middling franchise as a continuation with different players.
Film Frenzy
3.0
This deeply mars the storytelling and interrupts our attention to the screen.
Reel Talk Online
3.0
Its a testament to Malicks filmmaking skill that we do become somewhat engaged in Jacks childhood struggles with his fathers authority, his mild Oedip ..
Assignment X
4.5
It feels like, um, can I just say I really liked it and its an insanely audacious film by a filmmaker I will always appreciate
The Scorecard Review
4.5
The Tree of Life is one of those few films that comes along once in a decade with artistic aspirations so enormous, it stands like a giant towering ov ..
Vulture
5.0
Its beauty and sweep cant be denied.Theres the Big Bang; there are wisps of smoke and rolling waves and towering trees and constellations and amoebas.
Washington City Paper
4.5
and even though it is grandiose and humourless and preposterous it is also fantastically fresh, rich and fascinating.
Spectator
2.0
Terrence Malicks visual delight, a career culminating take on the mysteries of life.
Compuserve
5.0
The result is a fragmented but beautiful kaleidoscope of a film that is closer to a prayer set to music than to a story.
World Wng
3.0
Like David Lynchs Inland Empire, Malicks ode to creation is an uncompromised and highly personal project that insists that audiences engage it on his ..
Metro Times
5.0
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Ny Press
5.0
Tree of Life is a truly great film, not just because of what it accomplishes, but what it even tries; it not only depicts creation, it actually inspir ..
Hollywood News
5.0
As the films poster and Tumblr illustrate, every frame in Emmanuel Lubezkis photography is picturesque.But does the film live up to the hype
Critics Notebook
3.5
By Eleanor Ringel CaterIf the Star Trek franchise can be re booted, with a younger cast, why not X MenWell, several reasons, the first being Englishma ..
Saportare Port
5.0
...its the most bold and unconventional and visionary picture made using the apparatus of big studio pictures since Kubricks .
MSN Movies
3.0
The Tree of Life is breathtaking to look at, it really is stunning, but it is really just 138 minutes of whispering about God.
4.0
It is shown with a wonder of emotion and visual beauty, together with sublime images that symbolize catharsis.
4.5
A majestic audiovisual experience with rewards aplenty for those who are patient.
3.0
The famously reclusive, famously painstaking filmmaker Terrence Malick has made a film that projects such a meditation on screen, inviting us to bring ..
Movie Mom
5.0
Terrence Malick has created a film with a quality that is rarely seen in modern cinema.
Cinema Autopsy
5.0
An awesome work of filmmaking, an incredibly masterful and haunting and beautiful piece. This is big art, and it is worth more than one viewing.
Bad Ass Digest
5.0
Malicks most ambitious statement yet for his belief in the overwhelming transcendence of the sensory and material ephemera of the world over its trans ..
Patrick Nabarro
4.5
The Tree Of Life is unmistakably the work of Malick, spurning a conventional storyline to conjure stunning images.
Liver Pool Echo
4.5
If only my other disappointments were this entertaining.Actually, the new entry is better than its predecessor Cars.
Kc Active
3.0
The Tree of Life is either a triumph of artistic cinema or an almost inscrutable load of film wank. Im still not entirely sure which.
The Mercury
5.0
It captures moments of profound beauty almost by accident, as if in passing.
From the Front Row
4.3
Those occasional moments in Days of Heaven that inspired a catch in the breath ... are the building blocks of this film. Grace notes are now the prima ..
Looking Closer
4.5
Terrence Malicks new film The Tree of Life is not something you see very often.It is a serious film.
The Tyee
3.0
You may never, ever, see anything quite this beautiful in a movie theater in your life.
Blog Oregonlive
4.9
Malicks film isnt wallpaper, it isnt entertainment, and it doesnt look for easy explanations.
D Cist
1.5
The contrived quality of the drama doesnt simply stem from the lack of time available for its unfolding, but from the directors insistence on stuffing ..
World Socialist Web Site
4.5
When I compare my own cinematic ambitions in light of a film like this, I cannot help but level an accusatory finger back at myself and cry aloud, You ..
Brandon Fibbs
4.0
Yes, it is a very strange film but, cutting Malick some slack for artistic license, his film is also compelling and hypnotic.
Leepers Us
4.5
A visually dazzling, intentionally polarizing examination of life and death, and the beauty and darkness hidden between.
Blu Ray Ign
4.0
You dont watch The Tree Of Life so much as loll in front of it. Its part puzzle, part coming of age tale, part wildlife documentary, and all mind blow ..
News Of The World
5.0
What a gift it is to see the joys and pains of childhood both somebodys, and everybodys rendered so carefully and beautifully in a film.
Host Madison
2.0
Terrence Malick is hardly the first filmmaker to show us characters who cry out at the silence of God, but he is perhaps the most unquestionably Ameri ..
Deep Focus
4.0
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New York Metro Mix
4.5
In the Texas sequences, Malick captures the flow of time with an impressionistic style that gives equal weight to life changing incidents, fleeting mo ..
7 Dvt
5.0
Aspires to be as mysterious and powerful and as attuned to the miraculous as the Episcopal service attended by its central family, or the babys birth ..
Commercial Appeal (Memphis ..
4.0
A rich film that sets lofty goals for itself, and doesnt fall short by much.
Movie Metropolis
5.0
It may be bold and beautiful, but its also about as preachy and self important as cinema gets even by arthouse standards.
Ultra Culture
5.0
More than anything its a beautifully realized piece of direction that employs the tools and language of cinema in ways that constantly surprise, chall ..
Nyc Film Critic
4.5
Malick is neither neat nor witty nor dry the way one might want so philosophically ambitious a filmmaker to be.
Ny Books
5.0
Writer/director Terrence Malick has defied the odds and created a masterpiece of harrowing truth and deeply felt emotion.
James Wegg Review
4.5
One of the best films of the year thus far, The Tree of Life is an extraordinary achievement in storytelling that will captivate your inner sense of b ..
The Reel Deal
5.0
Some will dismiss its overarching themes and elliptical visuals as pretentious.
Rss Feeds Usa Today
3.8
All published materials contained herein are owned by their respective authors and cannot be reprinted, either in their entirety or in selection, with ..
The Cinema Phile Blog
4.4
In Tree of Life, (director Terrence) Malick offers no middle ground. Audiences will either embrace or despise it. They will think it is either deep an ..
Jc Online
5.0
And in most films, this would be disastrous.Most films in this dramatic arena are about exploring how things bounce through the mind and heart.
Movie City News
5.0
Without the dizzying assault of sacred bluster (and the occasional mytho surrealist touches, like levitation and Sleeping Beautys glass coffin, which ..
Bfi
4.5
Like watching your whole life crawl towards you on its hands and knees.
5.0
Cinema, for Malick, is a means of love and preservation; it is a way of engaging with the world and of letting the world engage us as subjects, as bei ..
Not Coming
4.5
The Tree Of Life pushes American cinema into regions uncharted since Stanley Kubricks heyday.
Un Cut
2.5
The Tree of Life has an illusion of profundity, but it is just that, an illusion.
Atlantic City Weekly
3.5
The film isnt as bad or as good as such reactions would lead one to believe.
4.5
The ultimate brilliance of The Tree Of Life is the films utter disinterest in answering the questions it poses.
5.0
Simultaneously micro and macro, the story of everything told in a single blade of grass.
Boulder Weekly
2.0
Does beauty alone equate to enjoyment.The answer lies somewhere within whichever side of the age old debate of style vs. substance the viewer lies.
Franks Reel Reviews
3.0
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Ifc
3.0
It reminds one of the vividness life held in youth, and it may very well go down as one of the great works of human art.
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3.8
Moviegoers willing to tolerate Malicks origins of the Earth ruminations eventually will come upon a universal American drama featuring one of Brad Pit ..
Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) ..
4.5
SDCC 2018 is in the books and Hal Rudnick was on the on the floor in San Diego checking out the best cosplay, exclusive sights, and more at Comic Con! ..
Screen Junkies
5.0
But, in my eyes, Malicks masterpiece is exactly like life itself youll get out of it precisely what you put into it.
Wd Times
3.0
Easily Malicks warmest movie and may well endure as his masterpiece...It is also a profoundly theological work. The best film of 2011 (tie).
Movie Dearest Blog Spot
5.0
It doesnt kill its perceived prey for reasons commensurate with the flick of a genetic switch.
Reverse Shot
4.0
Malick seems to be trying to crystallise in his own abstract way a running theme in his work that dates back to Days of Heaven: that however significa ..
Scotsman
4.0
It is a beautiful, intelligent film, sharp and insightful about the bond between father and son, thoughtful and amazed at the world that created them.
4.5
Terrence Malicks long awaited meditation on spirituality, loss and innocence stars Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain as a 1950s couple who along with the ..
Screen Wize
3.0
If you actually ask honey, should we go see Pirates, Hangover or Tree of Life, by all means go see one of the other two. Your frame of mind is everyth ..
Crunch On This
2.0
Apart from a middle section which reveals moments of clarity and actual emotion, this is a bloated, self indulgent bore of fine imagery.
Empire Online
5.0
Afterwards, we get a beautiful recreation of the beginning of time.Its about 15 20 minutes long, and is just a spectacular piece of cinema in its own ..
Jeffrey Manderson Blog Spo ..
4.5
The Tree of Life may not be perfect, but it is as close to essential viewing for anyone interested in the progress of American cinema as an art form a ..
Charleston City Paper
1.0
Thats an ambitiously universal and fascinating thing to study cinematically.
25YL (25 Years Later)
3.0
While it doesnt leave you as breathless as Malick would like, The Tree of Life will stir your soul and make you think. Which is an outcome every movie ..
4.5
I can think of very few other movies made in the last few decades that have been this ambitious.
Ebert Presents
3.0
Feels like the elusive film maker has become more indulgent than before ... being almost subversively disparaging to those who embrace and take comfor ..
Real.com
4.5
Its Terrence Malicks The Tree of Life, and while it doesnt come together perfectly, its got amazing ideas and contains some of the best filmmaking in ..
Upper More Land
3.0
The Tree of Life is both luminously precise (the family part, crowned by Brad Pitts commanding performance as a disciplinarian but loving dad) and mad ..
Feeds
3.0
Sections of Malicks expansive, fitfully brilliant, occasionally sloppy film are so powerful that you can only gaze up at the screen in wordless awe.
Philadelphia City Paper
1.3
I admire The Tree of Life in the same way I admire the white haired lady in the Guinness Book of World Records with 28 foot fingernails. By the way, a ..
4.5
Malicks reach exceeds his grasp. But man, that is one hell of a reach.
The Improper Bostonian
4.4
Terrence Malick has earned the right to preach from some celestial pedestal, though preaching isnt exactly what he does. Its more like reflecting life ..
AskMen.com
4.5
What keeps even the most trivial of Jacks memories from becoming boring is the remarkable way the film develops a sense of reality, situating the view ..
3.0
The Tree of Life is a singular cinematic experience, unique to anything youve ever seen and not to mention, one of the greatest American family portra ..
Processed Media
3.0
Plus it doesnt even feature the cool dinosaursmostly just some smaller ones.
4.5
A stunning masterpiece. Pitt is phenomenal and fearless, staying true to his characters flaws.
3.0
...like watching the most attractive person youve ever seen in your life tell the most boring, drawn out story youve ever heard. It made me want to gr ..
She Knows
3.8
Although it taxes patience in the way Malick films often do, it has excellent acting and passages of brilliance.
5.0
Still, the films cumulative impact is so overpowering, and the experience of watching it so exhilarating for the senses, that Im willing to give it a ..
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5.0
I only wish they added up to a coherent creation myth rather than a disjunctive series of cinematic feats.
Tik Kun
4.0
A bold, epic exercise that Malick comes close to pulling off. It may not stack up against his best, but it doesnt fail to incite feelings of awe in it ..
0.0
If I can prevent just one person from watching this, itll have been worth suffering through it.
Movie Crypt
3.0
An audacious visual poet known for gently probing lifes big questions, Malick has gone to the source of it all. Hes gifted enough to bring out the spi ..
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