You wouldn’t necessarily call Terrence Malick the most political filmmaker in the world but when he set out to tell the story of Pocahontas he was able to weave some real political commentary into it.

| Feb 7, 2023

The New World is astounding in its beauty, marrying romantic haze to the ravishing vastness of the earth.

| Dec 23, 2022

Snow drifts bleed into slight white flowers dotting branches, ladders lead toward the empty vast sky, men eat men, men betray and war with one another, and love exists...

| Original Score: 100/100 | Aug 19, 2021

Malick has kept his distance from history and contemporary events. He pays a price for his 'timelessness.' There is little developed sense of the contemporary world and its specific problems in his film.

| Feb 14, 2021

Though The Tree of Life garnered more attention and accolades, The New World is the better film, not only because it sticks the landing, but also due to its thematic heft.

| Jul 1, 2020

All [Malick's] trademarks are present and correct: the swaying grass, the gurgling rivers, the trees, the birds, the internal monologues. They all fit.

| Feb 12, 2020

Rumored to be on a scale as grand as Titanic, I must say Malick succeeded -- if he was going for the events of the ship and not the success of James Cameron's film.

| Nov 13, 2019

A probing, lyrical exploration of what makes us - as humans, as Americans, as inhabitants of this mortal plane - who we are.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 5, 2019

The true star of this film is the incredible cinematography by Emmanuel Lubezki.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 28, 2019

Closer to a symphonic poem than any conventional form of dramaturgical motion picture, Terence Malick's The New World is a triumphant work of unmitigated sensuality.

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

Any ambience created in tandem by Lubezki and Malick repeatedly dissipates in the face of the plodding treatment of fascinating material.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 30, 2016

The filmmakers are very wise to make this New World, and the people in it, seem untouched, immediate, and present. There may be a small amount of cultural foreboding, but it is heard distantly, like an echo of lamentation.

| Jul 28, 2016

Great works, when they next-to-never come, are always accompanied by giggles.

| Mar 2, 2014

Malick manages to do something I never thought possible, and that's make America seem like a New World to begin with.

| Original Score: A | Feb 21, 2014

| Original Score: B- | Feb 14, 2012

Discovery is a sensory experience by nature, and to lightly run one's fingers through someone's hair in The New World is to know them in some fundamental way.

| Oct 14, 2011

It is about the dreams we have when we are awake but in a state of absolute peace and perfect self-reflection.

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

By now the familiar elements have begun to resemble a misguided perfume commercial. Call it Terrence Malick's Obsession.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 13, 2011

Not Malick's best film, but more than up to his usual high standards, The New World is a powerful and emotional romantic drama, and an essential story in the history of America.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Apr 20, 2011

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 4, 2011