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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

However, what Malick had in mind for “The Tree of Life” was something unlike anything Criterion had done before. According to Kline, the extended, 188-minute version of “The Tree of Life ...

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.

The ridiculously inefficient “The Tree of Life” is 100 percent beautiful and 80-90 percent B.S., as Malick leans on nice cinematography to generalize about life’s brightest and darkest ...

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 ...

“The Tree of Life.” But I don’t think any of them would make the cut. The most recent film that would be on my list would be a Malick film, however: 1998’s “The Thin Red Line.” ...