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Sanja S Wasting of almost two hours of my life. 🙄 Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 11/17/24 Full Review CG B No plot, no acting, no meaningful dialog. Artsy to a fault, to the point of zero anything. A totally useless and meaning less waste of time. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 07/18/24 Full Review Audience Member Love makes us one, is there nothing else we need if we love each other?, where are we when we are at the place we end up?, love is not only a feeling, it's a duty The movie is gorgeously filmed, has breathtaking cinematography, a top-notch cast, and some spiritual music Some might get annoyed with the fish eye lens and this ends up being emotionally vacant throughout But the film's intent is told through fractured memories and mainly asks what happens to love and where does it go after it fades You can just take the film in for what it is as an experience if not an entirely coherent, after all this is how Terrence Malick approaches the human subtext This gathers the nature of love, the love of nature, and the silence of God's loving ness and the beauty of compassion Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/23/24 Full Review Jeanne U Often painfully pretentious, too much artsiness and not enough clear narrative to be able to relate to these characters. I couldn't genuinely care about them and the lack of dialogue didn't help. Impressionism works in paintings, not so much on film. Ben Affleck is wooden as Neil, Kurylenko's character Marina is too child-like, fey and childish to command respect. Malick's women including McAdams' character are poorly delineated, flitting and twirling as if that is what it takes to get Neil to fall in love with them. With good intentions gone awry, Malick just indulged himself at the expense of his audience and actors. I kept fastforwarding to get it over with. Couldn't figure out the time sequences which was frustrating and couldn't engage even with the religion/spirituality storyline featuring Bardem. Love is passion as well as piquancy and constancy. Marina was too piquant and not genuinely loving because she wasn't grounded. Affleck's character Neil was so grounded he was killing her by clipping her wings. Oklahoma's barren, uncultured terrain didn't help, although it served its purpose to accentuate how love could go from gorgeous, romantic Mont St Michel to the lacklustre dustbowl of the American Midwest when it was transplanted. I actually detested the whole experience as rather bloodless, in spite of the critic's rationalizations as to Malick's sincerity and artistry. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 07/31/23 Full Review Bunk M This one had the makings but strangley Affleck, McAdams & Kurylenko don't really do much here. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 07/19/23 Full Review dermot f Filmed in an unconventional style where spoken dialogue is secondary! We see the characters thoughts and feelings through the use of subtitles! Terence Mallick is a visual poet! Here he is aided by the gorgeous cinematography of Emmanuel Lubezki and the glorious score of Hanan Townshend! Must have been like a busman's holiday for Ben Affleck who has very little to do here! There is the gorgeous Olga Kurylenko and briefly Rachel Adams! I particularly liked how the story of the priest having a crisis of faith was handled! Definitely deserves a second viewing! I am still in awe of 26 year old New Zealand composer Hanan Townshend's magnificent score! Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 06/10/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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