There's not a frame of The Tree of Life — not one — that I wouldn't ... director Terrence Malick looks to the very origins of the universe. With help from special effects master Douglas ...

This morning’s world premiere of Malick’s The Tree of Life — hands down the most avidly anticipated film at Cannes 2011 — had all the angry urgency of legendary Festival screenings from ...

F. Engels The Tree of Life, the new film by independent American filmmaker Terrence Malick, is a largely muddleheaded and implicitly misanthropic work that also includes a number of exquisite images.

See About archive blog posts. In an early scene in ‘The Tree of Life,’ the new movie by Terrence Malick, an authoritarian patriarch played by Brad Pitt disrupts a family dinner to instruct his ...

How does one watch Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life"? That is the question. Malick's domestic epic is the most talked-about movie of the summer, and surely the most divisive -- a two-hour-and ...

I know Malick nuts who've said they were so moved by The Tree of Life they began to shake. Then there were two women at my screening who agreed it was a self-indulgent piece of you-know-what.

More meditation than movie, Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life” is bound to mystify, awe and exasperate in equal measures. Another profoundly inspired and visually scrumptious multi-year ...

These awe-inspiring sections of The Tree of Life conjure up scenes from 2001: A Space Odyssey, but unlike Stanley Kubrick's metaphysical musing on the meaning of the universe, Malick's film seems ...

the shoot for Malick’s coming-of-age epic ‘The Tree of Life,’ starring Sean Penn and Brad Pitt, pretty much made up its own rules as it went along. Then it broke those too. ‘Once you think ...

Nestled in between the summer superhero films and action sequels is Terrence Malick’s mysterious Tree of Life, starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn. Its trailer is gorgeous but perplexing ...

Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life” is insufferable: interminable, madly repetitive, vague, humorless, grandiose. It is also, astoundingly, one of the great lyric achievements of the screen ...