The Tree of Life Reviews
The Patriot Ledger
You'd be hard pressed to find an examination of human existence as profound and spiritual as Terrence Malick's mind-blowing trip through the cosmos.
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| Original Score: A
ScreenRant
Malick may have pushed the envelope a bit too far, losing the ability to see the forest for the trees - even in a film as beautiful and surreal as The Tree of Life
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| Original Score: 4/5
TheShiznit.co.uk
It's fair to say that everyone will get at least something out of this film.
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| Original Score: 4/5
NECN
While it doesn't leave you as breathless as Malick would like, The Tree of Life will stir your soul and make you think. Which is an outcome every moviemaker should aspire to create.
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| Original Score: B+
Sin Magazine
This film is a cinematic triumph! Terrence Malick's masterpiece!
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| Original Score: 4/4
Uruguay Total
Es cierto que la película es ambiciosa, y que no va a gustarle a todo el mundo. Pero para quien logre conectar con ella, puede resultar en una experiencia removedora y visualmente impactante.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Laramie Movie Scope
I'm not sure all of its diverse elements successfully make a whole story, but I am giving this film extra credit for being so incredibly ambitious, visually stunning and humane. It is a refreshing contrast to films that show the worst of humanity.
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| Original Score: A
IGN DVD
A visually dazzling, intentionally polarizing examination of life and death, and the beauty and darkness hidden between.
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| Original Score: 9/10
Bangitout.com
Terrence Malick's astonishing masterpiece of light, movement, and spirit, casts a dizzying spell and somehow manages to pronounce the ineffable while telling its humble tale.
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| Original Score: 4/4
EricDSnider.com
A movie rooted in philosophy is bound to feel, well, philosophical. Expecting a filmmaker to avoid highfalutin' imagery and ideas when he's examining The Nature of Man is like expecting a geometry teacher to avoid talking about angles.
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| Original Score: A-
Movie Metropolis
A rich film that sets lofty goals for itself, and doesn't fall short by much.
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| Original Score: 8/10
JWR
Writer/director Terrence Malick has defied the odds and created a masterpiece of harrowing truth and deeply felt emotion.
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| Original Score: 5/5
The Sun Herald
A bold, epic exercise that Malick comes close to pulling off. It may not stack up against his best, but it doesn't fail to incite feelings of awe in its audience, either.
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| Original Score: 8/10
Mark Leeper's Reviews
Yes, it is a very strange film but, cutting Malick some slack for artistic license, his film is also compelling and hypnotic.
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| Original Score: 8/10
Movie Talk
Malick's brilliantly acted and photographed film evokes the emotional turmoil of childhood, its resentment, pains and joys, in a way that few other filmmakers can match
Cinema Crazed
Not since "The Fountain" have I been left pondering on the bigger picture for such an extended period of time...
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| Original Score: 4/4
Flicks.co.nz
It's confounding, borderline pretentious, stuff, but there's no denying the emotional weight it lends - imagine flicking through a Bible and someone's baby book at once.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Matt's Movie Reviews
The fifth film from Terrence Malick melds theology, philosophy and human experience in the unforgettable The Tree of Life.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Cinema em Cena
Uma experiência profundamente religiosa para ateus, humanistas e, principalmente, cinéfilos.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Movie Dearest
Easily Malick's warmest movie and may well endure as his masterpiece...It is also a profoundly theological work. The best film of 2011 (tie).
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| Original Score: A-
