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 ...

Before "The Tree of Life," Lubezki had worked with legendary auteur Terrence Malick once before, “The New World.” So by the time he got to this film's Texas set, he already knew the secret of ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

A transfixing odyssey through time and memory that melds a young boy's 1950s upbringing with a magisterial rumination on the Earth's origins. A magnum opus that’s been kicking around inside ...