To The Wonder Reviews

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

The movie plays like an undercooked pie that hasn't had enough time to cool and settle.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

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

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Essentially it's an agglomeration of Malick's worst stylistic annoyances.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

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

Full Review | Original Score: C-

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

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

Full Review | Original Score: B-

A thing of great beauty, but not much more.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

We should not be exiting a Terrence Malick movie with a shrug, but there it is.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10

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

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Chary of exposition, meagre of plot, derisory of dialogue, indifferent to comprehension, it's a project that veers perilously close to self-parody.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

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

Full Review | Original Score: D