The visually stunning drama became one of cinema’s most acclaimed masterpieces after an unusually long production.

“They should have sent a poet,” says Jodie Foster’s teary-eyed astronaut as she gazes upon the glory of space in Contact. It took nearly 20 years, but Terrence Malick has taken it upon himself to ...

Back in December, the stunningly gorgeous trailer for Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life arrived and blew some minds. Somewhere in between the montage of space, rivers and birth was a brief shot ...

Including glimpses of Sleeping Beauty in her glass coffin, the rings of Saturn, and a roadside Texas barbecue, Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life bears a variety of forms — and invites as many ...

When Ben Affleck saw the final cut of To the Wonder, he said it “makes The Tree of Life look like Transformers.” Affleck, the picture’s star, may have been miffed that his dialogue scenes had been ...

The Tree of Life (2011), American filmmaker Terrence Malick's fifth movie in his forty-year-long career is, to me, a massive failure on almost every level: as entertainment, philosophy, theology, ...

While Saving Private Ryan is thought to be the best war film of all time, another war epic quietly released that same year - ...

Malick admirably dares to take on similar territory in The Tree of Life, but does so in such a disjointed, lumbering, clumsy and cinematographically pedestrian manner that the viewer (at least this ...