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To The Wonder (2013)

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Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 147
Fresh: 64 | Rotten: 83

To the Wonder demonstrates Terrence Malick's gift for beautiful images, but its narrative is overly somber and emotionally unsatisfying.

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Average Rating: 5.4/10
Critic Reviews: 42
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 27

To the Wonder demonstrates Terrence Malick's gift for beautiful images, but its narrative is overly somber and emotionally unsatisfying.

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TO THE WONDER tells the story of Marina (Kurylenko) and Neil (Affleck), who meet in France and move to Oklahoma to start a life together, where problems soon arise. While Marina makes the acquaintance of a priest and fellow exile (Bardem), who is struggling with his vocation, Neil renews a relationship with a childhood sweetheart, Jane (McAdams). Bold and lyrical, the film is a moving, gorgeously shot exploration of love in its many forms. Written and directed by Terrence Malick.(c) Official

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Drama, Romance

Terrence Malick

Aug 6, 2013

$0.6M

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What is most affecting is Malick's intent. He plainly devised the story to give him a series of panels for the expression of feeling.

June 13, 2013 Full Review Source: The New Republic
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The movie plays like an undercooked pie that hasn't had enough time to cool and settle.

May 3, 2013 Full Review Source: Miami Herald
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Essentially it's an agglomeration of Malick's worst stylistic annoyances.

April 26, 2013 Full Review Source: Christian Science Monitor
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A thing of great beauty, but not much more.

April 25, 2013 Full Review Source: Arizona Republic
Arizona Republic
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We should not be exiting a Terrence Malick movie with a shrug, but there it is.

April 23, 2013 Full Review Source: Richard Roeper.com
Richard Roeper.com
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Chary of exposition, meagre of plot, derisory of dialogue, indifferent to comprehension, it's a project that veers perilously close to self-parody.

April 19, 2013 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail
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To The Wonder - the best American feature by far of 2013: beautiful, compassionate, tragic, transcendent.

September 16, 2013 Full Review Source: Arts Fuse
Arts Fuse

Mesmo que apresente-se irregular, é suficientemente sensível e revelador para fazer jus à filmografia do diretor.

September 1, 2013 Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena
Cinema em Cena

In its conventionally alienating extremes, this is probably Malick's most pure expression of his uniquely impressionistic, almost extra-sensory cinematic gifts, transporting one to a meditative wavelength of emotional experience.

August 29, 2013 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com
TheMovieReport.com

At times the film actually feels like a parody of an arthouse movie rather than a work produced by a director often unjustly described as a cinematic genius.

August 20, 2013 Full Review Source: 3AW

With its florid narration, non-linear structure, and endless shots of a woman in flowing skirts twirling in fields, on beaches, and in supermarket aisles, it's dangerously close to being a parody of a Malick movie.

July 12, 2013 Full Review Source: About.com
About.com

"To the Wonder" is an imperfect film that perhaps reaches too high and too far, but I admire the effort, and am grateful for those moments when Malick does connect, and the film suddenly becomes glorious.

July 11, 2013 Full Review Source: Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Capital Times (Madison, WI)

To the Wonder feels like a caricature coveting Malick's previously towering pieces of visual art. However there's more refined, contemplative poetry in this relative misstep than in a hundred Hollywood studio films.

July 7, 2013 Full Review Source: 2UE That Movie Show
2UE That Movie Show

Terrence Malick's vague, sweeping ode to love lost and found is anything but wondrous.

June 30, 2013 Full Review Source: The Sunday Age

With its pale colour palette, the film looks like whimsy, but without the humour. The characters move slowly, as if slowed by the weight of their thoughts and emotions. It's as if Malik is showing us what it would be like to be a ghostly observer

June 29, 2013 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile
Urban Cinefile

There is some glorious imagery in Terrence Malik's elusive and poetic film about love, but this internal observation is far too obtuse and self-indulgent to satisfy even the most romantic

June 29, 2013 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile
Urban Cinefile

If you give yourself up to it, you'll be carried along-not knowing where you're going, and never really minding much either.

June 23, 2013 Full Review Source: Deadspin
Deadspin

Its ambitions might be slight, but its impact is more than slightly powerful.

June 12, 2013 Full Review Source: Cinemalogue.com
Cinemalogue.com

Dialogue is reduced to impressionistic snatches and self-consciously poetic voice-over; the impressive cast have nothing much to do but exchange meaningful looks through windblown hair.

June 11, 2013 Full Review Source: The Skinny
The Skinny

To the Wonder is built from shattered hearts, broken relationships and unanswered prayers, all better long since forgotten rather than pondered on film, yet again...

June 10, 2013 Full Review Source: Alt Film Guide
Alt Film Guide

Terrence Malick is to light as Orson Welles was to shadow: the master.

May 3, 2013 Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

Indisputably comes off as a minor work on the heels of Malick's The Tree of Life but still holds enough of interest for the initiated.

April 27, 2013 Full Review Source: Creative Loafing
Creative Loafing

Malick succeeds in creating his a separate reality, one drenched with longing and fear.

April 27, 2013 Full Review Source: Denton Record Chronicle (TX)
Denton Record Chronicle (TX)

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August 27, 2013
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Love according to Malick, and not really a character study but in fact a "director study" that works as a direct follow-up to The Tree of Life. It is a lyrical and extremely revealing self-portrait of a deeply sensitive man who is able to dive into sheer beauty but never into real passion.
June 14, 2013
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    1. Marina: I write on water what I dare not say.
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    1. Father Quintana: You shall love, whether you like it or not.
    – Submitted by Scott T (9 months ago)
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