To The Wonder Reviews
Bloomberg News
All things most certainly do not work together for the good.
Flix Capacitor
Arguably Terrence Malick's most Malick-y film to date, at times To The Wonder feels like a Malick parody. Visually, it's absolutely stunning, but the 'story' is abstract even by his standards.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
We Got This Covered
To the Wonder is visually deep and beautiful, but the characters and story are complete non-factors for the film.
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| Original Score: 5/10
We Got This Covered
All of the prettiest pictures of mother nature couldn't save To The Wonder from being a lifeless, overly-poetic bore that fails to keep a consistently flowing story intact.
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| Original Score: 5/10
Examiner.com
There are ideas that are trying to come out in this film, but as to how successful Malick is in conveying those ideas on screen is where the film loses a lot of its effect.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Fan The Fire
Malick has the unnatural talent to evolve a simplistic and adolescent game of hide and go seek into a profound and existential search into the character's hearts and minds.
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| Original Score: 1/5
NECN
Malick's profound message permeating throughout: Living in Oklahoma blows.
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| Original Score: F
Moviedex
To the Wonder plays like a nature documentary featuring famous actors who wander into the shot from time to time.
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| Original Score: 2/5
HeyUGuys
The interaction between the leads is about as enticing as watching paint dry!
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| Original Score: 1/5
Examiner.com
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.
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| Original Score: 4/10
Irish Times
At times, the new film plays like a Wayans brothers parody of a late Malick picture: Sleepy Movie, Floaty Movie, Preachy Movie.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Paste Magazine
Frankly, To The Wonder becomes bogged and down and more than a little bit boring over the course of its two hours.
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| Original Score: 5/10
Moviedex
If To the Wonder is the kind of film we get when Malick is prolific, I'd rather he took another ten or twenty years off.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Scotsman
Will Malick ever tire of his soulful child-women? How long can you linger on feet bouncing off sea-soaked mudflats before it becomes a poetic indulgence?
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| Original Score: 2/5
Birmingham Mail
Some viewers will find this deep and meaningful; others will leave scratching their heads.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Top CriticThere are moments of pure poetry in the movie but the production as a whole seems overlong and repetitive and takes a detour or two that distract from the aching beauty of the central story.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
There's little doubt this film will deepen, open up with a second viewing. But to what end?
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
The film breaks faith with its audience by asking us to care about two profoundly antipathetic characters spouting pseudo-poetic banalities.
HitFix
Maybe I've been hanging out with the wrong women my whole life, but I don't know anyone who spins this much. Instructors in spin classes don't spin this much.
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| Original Score: C+
The Movie Minute
Artistry aside, I do still wonder: for a movie with this much dancing and twirling, how come it still feels like a ton of bricks?
