Seb Moore

Can't believe Ebert's last review was for this - and he really liked it. couldn't be a more fitting end.

Apr 7 - 03:09 AM

Brian Smith

Not only is it at 40%, but some of the 'fresh' reviews sound rather stale. (e.g. 'It isn?t very good.' -- that's from a fresh rating.) Malick was always rather self-indulgent, but it seems he has now crawled so far up his own asshole that he may be incapable of producing something featuring a coherent plot. He'll always have his defenders in critics'circles, but Tree of Life scared of a good portion of whatever audience he may have left. Based on the sound of this one, which Affleck says makes Tree of Life look like Transformers, he may have lost those who were still hanging in there. What's remarkable is that anyone gives him any sort of sizable budget with which to work, knowing that he's speaking to no one outside of a portion of the art house crowd. The financiers might want to take a peek at the script next time out, see if contains more than three pages of dialogue and anything resembling a story.

Sorry about the rant. Still hurting from several Tree of Life hours I'll never get back.

Apr 4 - 01:06 PM

Emma Franklin

I'm sorry. It's bullshit. I don't think low ratings will ever matter in the eyes of Terrence Malick fans anyway; he could smear a wall with his own shit and they would still think it was profound and magical.

Apr 4 - 02:43 AM

Sean Patrick

High 60's, I think. Malick's a bit polarizing when he unleashes his purely aesthetic/philosophical form.

Mar 25 - 09:06 AM

N H

I think it might finish fresh. The Tree Of Life was rottn for its first few weeks on RT, I think, and that ended up being praised by Ebert as one of the top 10 films ever made. As more top critics and less Chris Stuckmanns post reviews, I think it'll go up much, much higher. I'm not worried at the moment whether it finishes fresh or rotten anyway, it still looks absolutely beautiful.

Mar 24 - 06:18 PM

William Johnsten

I personally though Tree of Life deserved negative reviews. I liked the message it was getting across, but consistently using shots, cinematography, and visuals is NOT a good way to tell a story. It's a shame because Terence Malick really was something special in the 70s. I loved Badlands and Days of Heavens, both were utter masterpieces. The Thin Red Line was a rather weak attempt at displaying an anti-war film in a visually symbolic style, The New World was slow but had some intense and moving scenes (and also a consistent story arc), Tree of Life was incredibly slow and didn't think its theme needed two and a half hours to be told. To The Wonder, I heard, had some unintentionally laughable moments and suffered from lingering plot threads, but then again it's just what I heard.

Mar 8 - 02:56 PM

Seb Moore

most of the negativity is coming from minor UK publications. richard corliss wrote a glowing review for it, plus Guardian and Empire gave it 4/5, so im not too worried

Mar 6 - 12:07 AM

Cole Jaeger

Probably will stay around 40. I still think I will like it. I'm kind of hoping that some critic like Ebert will give it 4 stars.

Mar 1 - 04:08 PM