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To The Wonder (2013)

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42

Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 133
Fresh: 56 | Rotten: 77

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: 40
Fresh: 13 | 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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Average Rating: 3.2/5
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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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All Critics (133) | Top Critics (40) | Fresh (56) | Rotten (77)

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
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
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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Mostly, it's solemn intonations of bad poetry over open-field twirling scenes and long serious looks of love, tenderness and cosmic understanding.

April 19, 2013 Full Review Source: Detroit News
Detroit News
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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)

Trying to hold onto any part of it is like trying to catch meringue in a baseball glove.

April 26, 2013 Full Review Source: Charlotte Observer
Charlotte Observer

Fragmentary to the point of being formless and devoid of any motivation or momentum, it's the first of Malick's works to feel more like a sketchbook than a film.

April 26, 2013 Full Review Source: The Grid
The Grid

It looks great, the sound is interesting, the actors are doing what they are asked to do, but it didn't hit me the way The Tree of Life did. For fans only.

April 26, 2013 Full Review Source: What the Flick?!

Any half-serious filmgoers need to see "To the Wonder" for themselves; it remains the product of a fascinating mind.

April 25, 2013 Full Review Source: Oregonian
Oregonian

If you have the ability to ignore Affleck, To the Wonder is a visual stunner, with a surprising transcendental enthusiasm for everything.

April 21, 2013 Full Review Source: MetroActive
MetroActive

Gorgeous cinematography by Emmanuel Lubezki almost makes 'To the Wonder' worth seeing. Unfortunately, director/writer Terrence Malick fails to flesh out this drama with a plot we can follow.

April 19, 2013 Full Review Source: ReelTalk Movie Reviews
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Malick, who is obviously unconcerned with his film's commercial success, continues to work with cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, and together they have grown immensely fond of long, lovely shots of nature.

April 19, 2013 Full Review Source: Kaplan vs. Kaplan
Kaplan vs. Kaplan

Malick's films are more self-indulgent than other filmmakers. He is enamored with his own camera work, and whether or not his subject matter is germane to the story is largely up to the viewer.

April 19, 2013 Full Review Source: Kaplan vs. Kaplan
Kaplan vs. Kaplan

While it may be filmed beautifully, To the Wonder doesn't exactly move its gestating 112-minute duration along any faster with everyone on-screen galloping around their front yard or a field full of slow moving bison genitalia.

April 19, 2013 Full Review Source: Examiner.com
Examiner.com

Frankly, To The Wonder becomes bogged and down and more than a little bit boring over the course of its two hours.

April 19, 2013 Full Review Source: Paste Magazine
Paste Magazine

Once the shock of seeing a Sonic Drive-In in a Malick film wears off, the movie leaves little to ponder beyond the sketchily drawn romance drama at its core.

April 19, 2013 Full Review Source: Time Out Chicago
Time Out Chicago

Audience Reviews for To The Wonder

A Rhythmic Design of Life Around Sustaining Love and Faith.

Good Film! To The Wonder is a visually and aurally stunning experience but this outweighs narrative and emotional engagement, leaving it a bit cold where it tries to be all-encompassing warm. Amidst this metaphysical and highly personal journey Malick gives us not only a sense of the "wonder of love" but also celebrates our sense of wonder in general. Our ability to be overwhelmed by our emotions for another person, nature or even God. "To the Wonder" is a film about faiths in many shapes and strives for that forgiveness that elates our disappointments and resentments in order to finally love in a state of personal liberty and acceptance. A movie for a few with a theme for everybody.

Neil (Ben Affleck) is an American traveling in Europe who meets and falls in love with Marina (Olga Kurylenko), an Ukrainian divorcée who is raising her 10-year-old daughter Tatiana in Paris. The lovers travel to Mont St. Michel, the island abbey off the coast of Normandy, basking in the wonder of their newfound romance. Neil makes a commitment to Marina, inviting her to relocate to his native Oklahoma with Tatiana. He takes a job as an environmental inspector and Marina settles into her new life in America with passion and vigor. After a holding pattern, their relationship cools. Marina finds solace in the company of another exile, the Catholic priest Father Quintana (Javier Bardem), who is undergoing a crisis of faith. Work pressures and increasing doubt pull Neil further apart from Marina, who returns to France with Tatiana when her visa expires. Neil reconnects with Jane (Rachel McAdams), an old flame. They fall in love until Neil learns that Marina has fallen on hard times.
April 29, 2013
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'To the Wonder'. A series of moments. Undeniably striking in its visual beauty and camera movement. I felt detached the whole time, and wanted more emotionally.

Kurylenko is utterly captivating, and Emmanuel Lubezki is a master of his craft; insanely good cinematography.
April 23, 2013
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    1. Marina: I write on water what I dare not say.
    – Submitted by Vânia N (11 days ago)
    1. Father Quintana: You shall love, whether you like it or not.
    – Submitted by Scott T (4 months ago)

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