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

| Original Score: B- | Feb 14, 2012

Just beautiful.

| Mar 17, 2011

If I think I'm mostly going to keep coming back to [the 172-minute] cut (and I do hope, someday soon, for a Mr. Arkadin-like 3-cuts comparative DVD set) it's because it feels most fully realized.

| Jan 2, 2009

These whispered ruminations are beautifully written, but whose voice are we hearing?

| Nov 1, 2007

A work of great intelligence, ambition and radiant beauty.

Full Review | Sep 28, 2006

Malick's magic remains undiminished.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2006

For this and this alone Mallick should be applauded. His epic of an old world giving up and a new one taking over isn't a masterpiece. But it is different, daring to look at complex historical issues with intelligence and an unwaveringly piercing eye.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 16, 2006

Malick's painterly images and meditative voiceovers are not for me the overwhelming force of nature they are for some, but I'm willing to be swept along by them, if what they have to say is potent enough.

| Original Score: B | Feb 10, 2006

The New World is a film to which you have to surrender to enjoy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 31, 2006

A profound, revealing, wonderful film about the meeting of two cultures and the shaping of a new one.

| Jan 28, 2006

... there is just too little character and story to sustain the long middle section.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 22, 2006

The New World isn't Terrence Malick's best, but it's guiding him in the right direction.

| Jan 20, 2006

The New World laps over its audience like water on a deserted beach, moving so quietly that you almost don't notice that it's enveloped you.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 20, 2006

The New World is stately almost to the point of being static and thus has trouble finding a central story around which to arrange itself; it's not quite the thin dead line, but it's close.

| Jan 20, 2006

He [Malick] swoons for his own well-honed image as a painter of woodland idylls, a man who leaves no sway of wheat or ripple of water unmet by his fatherly gaze.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 20, 2006

Through elliptical and seemingly oblique methods, he [Malick] forges moments of staggering emotional power.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 20, 2006

Like the best music, this film elicits emotions rather than manipulates them.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 20, 2006

A Terence Malick film remains an event, but he appears awfully disoriented in The New World -- less a seasoned traveller than a perplexed tourist, content to mask his confusion by reaching for a camera and snapping relentless pretty pictures.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 20, 2006

Malick is so content to tell the tale through mood that he neglects its meaning.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 20, 2006