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Alynda Wheat, People: MODERATE (cg) "...stunningly beautiful, befuddling and self-indulgent -- a ponderous, gorgeous mess." (Read the full review...) 143 words, 05/26/11 Richard Corliss, Time: OUTSTANDING "...essential viewing for serious moviegoers... Malick has captured the feeling of texture of his early films and those other '70s movies that mattered." (Read the full review...) 1,712 words, 05/16/11 Christy Lemire, Associated Press: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Gorgeous and ambitious, pretentious and baffling, tightly controlled yet free-flowing... very much the culmination of everything Terrence Malick has done until now..." (Read the full review...) 676 words, 05/26/11 Thelma Adams, Us Weekly: MODERATE (cg) "A serious Brad Pitt captivates as a father of three boys in 1950s Texas, but he's one of the few good things in this confusing (if gorgeous) art film.... extremely pretentious..." (Read the full review...) 90 words, 05/26/11 Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: EXCELLENT (cg) "...both luminously precise (the family part, crowned by Brad Pitt's commanding performance as a disciplinarian but loving dad) and maddeningly without form and void..." (Read the full review...) 340 words, 05/27/11 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...relies on visual impressions that connect a single family to nothing less than the creation of the universe... a groundbreaker, a personal vision that dares to reach for the stars." (Read the full review...) 432 words, 05/27/11 Claudia Puig, USA Today: OUTSTANDING (cg) "A shape-shifting film, it resembles a poem. At other moments, it is closer to a symphony. Most often, it approximates a fervent prayer." (Read the full review...) 407 words, 05/27/11 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: OUTSTANDING (cg) "It created within me a spiritual awareness, and made me more alert to the awe of existence.... Some few films evoke the wonderment of life's experience, and those I consider a form of prayer." (Read the full review...) 1,169 words, 05/18/11 Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: OUTSTANDING (cg) "I'm reasonably confident that if you open yourself to the film, it will get inside of you, and work on you, and make you wonder... If that's not the sign of a masterpiece, I don't know what is." (Read the full review...) 1,071 words, 05/20/11 James Berardinelli, Reel Views: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...falls short of masterful but retains a power that far too many motion pictures lack.... even when it fails, it does so in a manner that is interesting and not infantile." (Read the full review...) 1,255 words, 06/09/11
A.O. Scott, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "There are very few films I can think of that convey the changing interior weather of a child's mind with such fidelity and sensitivity." (Read the full review...) 1,550 words, 05/27/11 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: EXCELLENT (cg) "...consistently beautiful and challenging... long, often redundant and certainly on its own wavelength. But movies so rarely provoke serious consideration and debate." (Read the full review...) 487 words, 05/27/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...its enormous advantages notwithstanding, it ends up a film that demands to be admired but cannot be easily embraced." (Read the full review...) 883 words, 05/27/11 Lou Lumenick, New York Post: OUTSTANDING (cg) "While it's entirely possible to dismiss this philosophizing head trip of a movie as pretentious, tedious and often inscrutable New Age hooey... you may be doing so at your own peril." (Read the full review...) 875 words, 05/27/11 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "I've seen it twice now, and though this childhood was not my childhood, and my spiritual yearnings are not Malick's, 'The Tree of Life' already has come to mean a great deal to me." (Read the full review...) 1,147 words, 06/03/11 Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...not entertainment, but art, and of the most purely personal kind.... Still, even at its most ridiculous, it's a film that demands to be taken seriously." (Read the full review...) 316 words, 06/17/11 David Edelstein, New York Magazine: GOOD "...doesn't jell, but it goes without saying that I recommend it unreservedly. Will you find it ridiculously sublime or sublimely ridiculous? Don't be afraid to find it both." (Read the full review...) 1,121 words, 05/23/11 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "It created within me a spiritual awareness, and made me more alert to the awe of existence.... Some few films evoke the wonderment of life's experience, and those I consider a form of prayer." (Read the full review...) 1,169 words, 05/18/11 J. Hoberman, Village Voice: POOR "...has very little human interest.... less profound than profoundly eccentric, while too solemn, pompous, and genteel to be truly crazy. The movie disengages the mind, even as it dulls the senses." (Read the full review...) 538 words, 05/16/11 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...evokes wonder, dread, hope.... prompted by the cascade of images in something that's closer to epic poetry than to anything resembling narrative cinema." (Read the full review...) 474 words, 05/16/11 Rick Groen, Toronto Globe & Mail: VERY GOOD (cg) "...plays like a divine pronouncement, cosmic in scope and oracular in tone, a cinematic sermon on the mount that shows its creator in exquisite form. Exquisite but frustrating." (Read the full review...) 839 words, 06/10/11 Nick Pinkerton, LA Weekly: OUTSTANDING "Better than a masterpiece... an eruption of a movie, something to live with, to think and talk about afterward." (Read the full review...) 851 words, 05/26/11 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a goddamned work of art." (Read the full review...) 491 words, 06/09/11
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...both good and bad, great and fatally flawed, transporting and disappointingly literal." (Read the full review...) 770 words, 06/03/11 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Malick's fifth and most ambitious undertaking not only aspires to change your life - it tries to explain it.... the film is impressionistic, revelatory, elliptical..." (Read the full review...) 760 words, 06/10/11 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: WEAK (cg) "...will challenge even the most ardent Malick fan to admire the Emperor's New Clothes this time." (Read the full review...) 488 words, 06/12/11 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a flawed but impressive experiment, the sort of shoot-the-moon gamble that cinema can't do without." (Read the full review...) 668 words, 06/03/11 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Beautiful, baffling, poetic, pretentious, it's one big ball of moviedom.... won't be for everyone. Some will find it maddening, others beautiful." (Read the full review...) 717 words, 06/10/11 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Could a work of art be more handsome? Could it be more borderline profound? This movie weighs so much, yet contains so little. It's all vault and little coin." (Read the full review...) 1,381 words, 06/04/11 Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a complex and often beautiful experience." (Read the full review...) 685 words, 05/27/11 Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...at times trying and perplexing, but it also contains some of the most psychologically insightful and ecstatic filmmaking imaginable." (Read the full review...) 655 words, 06/03/11 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Those looking for a clear-cut story and a snappy pace won't find them here.... But this film's rewards are many, for those with the patience to simply let it float." (Read the full review...) 512 words, 06/17/11 Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: OUTSTANDING (cg) "You may never, ever, see anything quite this beautiful in a movie theater in your life." (Read the full review...) 947 words, 06/10/11 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...rooted in human nature but ascends to the infinite mystery. It's a dizzying climb with few footholds for the timid or cynical..." (Read the full review...) 520 words, 06/10/11 Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "...ponderous and perplexing, a somberly audacious film to make viewers swoon or snore, take your pick." (Read the full review...) 524 words, 06/23/11 Tom Long, Detroit News: EXCELLENT (cg) "The vision is dazzling. The portrayal of family life palpable. The ending... well, let's go back to the vision." (Read the full review...) 316 words, 06/10/11 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...flawed yet masterful, unforgettable... Malick argues that even the tiniest mote can have value. He sees miracles everywhere. You just have to make an effort to see them, too." (Read the full review...) 750 words, 06/17/11
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: POOR "...has very little human interest.... less profound than profoundly eccentric, while too solemn, pompous, and genteel to be truly crazy. The movie disengages the mind, even as it dulls the senses." (Read the full review...) 538 words, 05/16/11 Katey Rich, Cinema Blend: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...an earnest and enormous movie that will take many, many more viewings to untangle.... a gobsmacking experience that earns its grandness." (Read the full review...) 746 words, 05/25/11 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: VERY GOOD (cg) "...an unlikely mix of the exquisitely sophisticated and the baldly ingenuous. Yet disparate though these extremes are, they combine to make it Malick's best work since his first film, 'Badlands.' " (Read the full review...) 600 words, 06/02/11 Nick Pinkerton, LA Weekly: OUTSTANDING "Better than a masterpiece... an eruption of a movie, something to live with, to think and talk about afterward." (Read the full review...) 851 words, 05/26/11 Scott Tobias, AV Club: OUTSTANDING (cg) "The simplicity of 'The Tree Of Life' will be mistaken for naïveté.... a genuine attempt to grasp the transcendent, and the rare religious film that deserves to be called spiritual." (Read the full review...) 427 words, 05/26/11 Stephanie Zacharek, Movieline: GOOD (cg) "Malick does care about craftsmanship... [but] characteristically, doesn't seem to care much for people at all." (Read the full review...) 1,417 words, 05/16/11 Ed Gonzalez, Slant: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...like a spell, the film's mystified, sometimes glacial grandeur is such that it's memory becomes difficult to shake off -- even, one imagines, in death." (Read the full review...) 1,422 words, 05/18/11 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a goddamned work of art." (Read the full review...) 491 words, 06/09/11 Curt Holman, Atlanta Creative Loafing: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Director Terrence Malick tags all the grandiose bases in 'The Tree of Life'... a beautiful, affecting film, provided you have the patience to take it on its own terms." (Read the full review...) 699 words, 06/03/11 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: POOR (cg) "Tree of life? Tree of sanctimonious mopey male egotism disguised as a search for meaning, more like. Or a search for God. Or for nostalgia. Or for innocence. Or for Mom. Or for something." (Read the full review...) 976 words, 07/08/11
Bob Mondello, NPR All Things Considered: OUTSTANDING "...epic -- and intimate at the same time.... grand, loopy, spiritual.... astonishing in some spots, almost incoherent in others." (Listen to the full review...) 239 seconds, 05/27/11 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: EXCELLENT "...exquisite and also exasperating... a free-form meditation.... Daring in concept, occasionally daffy in execution and ultimately unforgettable..." (Read the full review...) 796 words, 05/27/11 A.O. Scott, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "There are very few films I can think of that convey the changing interior weather of a child's mind with such fidelity and sensitivity." (Read the full review...) 1,550 words, 05/27/11 Anthony Lane, New Yorker: VERY GOOD "...a sharp, not unharrowing story of a father and son, and, amid one's exasperation, there is no mistaking Malick's unfailing ability to grab at glories on the fly." (Read the full review...) 1,624 words, 05/23/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...its enormous advantages notwithstanding, it ends up a film that demands to be admired but cannot be easily embraced." (Read the full review...) 883 words, 05/27/11 Dana Stevens, Slate: OUTSTANDING "...a testament to this reclusive, stubborn, visionary director's stunning achievement: Malick's films can change the way you look at the world by showing you how another person sees it." (Read the full review...) 1,109 words, 05/27/11 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: GOOD "...a puzzler, in that it blends uncanny clarity and extraordinary powers of perception with what sometimes seems like murky, pretentious chaos..." (Read the full review...) 1,787 words, 05/16/11
Justin Chang, Daily Variety: EXCELLENT "...something extraordinary. Terrence Malick's long-awaited fifth feature is in many ways his simplest yet most challenging work..." (Read the full review...) 1,556 words, 05/16/11 Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: VERY GOOD "...a singular work... releases waves of insights amidst its narrative imprecisions.... one of Brad Pitt's finest performances..." (Read the full review...) 1,390 words, 05/16/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...its enormous advantages notwithstanding, it ends up a film that demands to be admired but cannot be easily embraced." (Read the full review...) 883 words, 05/27/11 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Cosmic and metaphysical in its narrative, ambitious to a fault in its goal, and gorgeously beautiful... A provocative and challenging film on any number of levels..." (Read the full review...) 1,450 words, 05/16/11 A.O. Scott, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "There are very few films I can think of that convey the changing interior weather of a child's mind with such fidelity and sensitivity." (Read the full review...) 1,550 words, 05/27/11 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: EXCELLENT "...exquisite and also exasperating... a free-form meditation.... Daring in concept, occasionally daffy in execution and ultimately unforgettable..." (Read the full review...) 796 words, 05/27/11
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