"The Thin Red Line” is a magnificent motion picture whose very essence is epitomized in its every sequence.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 25, 2022

Malick has crafted nothing so much as a poetic tribute to his own artistic sensitivity.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 2, 2022

Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line should not be seen as much as experienced through the perception of flowing images and existential questioning.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 18, 2022

Unflinching in its "war is hell" message, we witness young men's innocence and spark stripped away on the battlefield. That's been done before though. What makes this film stand out is its vision beyond the battle.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 18, 2022

The action scenes are beautifully shot but it's in the quieter and more thoughtful moments that The Thin Red Line finds its real strength.

| Nov 22, 2021

As such, The Thin Red Line might just be the greatest war film ever made.

| Jul 1, 2020

The Thin Red Line is a sensual experience, so richly detailed and textured that its images leap from the screen.

| Oct 29, 2019

War is nothing to be celebrated or glorified here  --  it's nothing less than the rape of the natural world.

| May 18, 2019

stunning images couldn't make Days of Heaven a coherent dramatic whole, and they can't do it for The Thin Red Line.

| Apr 2, 2019

The film is a gorgeous garland on an unknown soldier's grave.

| Apr 1, 2019

The Thin Red Line remains a breathtakingly beautiful, meditative and mesmerizingly formless account of pain inflicted, and in a few lucky instances, survived.

| Jan 3, 2019

War is depoliticised and shown to be uniformly evil, perverse and unnatural, a complete antithetical counterpoint to mankind's craving for existential sanctity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 8, 2018

There has truly never been a film about modern war quite like this one: a kind of lyric epic poem about the way men are transformed for good by the experience of war, carefully balancing romanticism and dispassion, action and introspection.

| Apr 10, 2018

One of the most harrowing of anti-war statements, and the most beautiful too.

| Original Score: A | Feb 21, 2014

Lyrical, meditative and original, Malick's WWII film is one of the best war films ever made.

| Original Score: A- | May 6, 2012

In the midst of life we may be in death, but the opposite is true as well.

| Oct 14, 2011

Though it is not only a great war film, perhaps not even primarily a great war film, it is assuredly a great war film.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jun 8, 2011

...so gorgeous it feels as if it's being seen through heavenly eyes - at least until fresh hell rips across the screen.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 13, 2011

Ultimately concerned less with specific tactical maneuvers or combat suffering than with the grand contradictions of life.

| Original Score: A | May 11, 2011

The Thin Red Line's hallucinatory blend of images defines the very essence of cinema.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 20, 2011