If a portion of American cinema is going to remain devoted to violence, it could learn a lot by revisiting Malick's thoughtfulness.

| Feb 21, 2018

In the fall of 1973, one could see signposts of cinema's future in Mean Streets and The Exorcist, yet with this youthful pair of proto-indie dreamers, Malick was paving a whole new road. It turned out to be the path most traveled.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 7, 2013

It's a testament to Bruce Greenwood's acting that Adan never becomes entirely as insufferable as the words that come out of his mouth.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 5, 2013

Malick's film, full of striking cutaways to the burning-sun horizon and the harsh landscape's solitary creatures, comes to operate at an overpoweringly chilling remove.

| Original Score: A | May 11, 2011

Days of Heaven put Terrence Malick's intuitions into cogent form, but this is where his art begins.

| Feb 8, 2010

The superb performances from Sheen and Spacek are as memorable as Malick's vision of something akin to hell.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 29, 2008

An unmissable reissue for Terrence Malick's gorgeous and troubling debut.

| Aug 29, 2008

Terrence Malick's thriller Badlands (1973), is rightly revered as one of the most astonishing debuts in cinema. Its reissue is a wonderful chance to discover why.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 29, 2008

This first, magnificent, outpouring of the sporadic genius of cinema's equivalent to JD Salinger, Terrence Malick, still seems terrifically modern.

| Original Score: 5/6 | Aug 29, 2008

Achingly evocative of a time when Hollywood had the courage to invest in complex and morally ambiguous films and an indisputable masterpiece of American cinema.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 29, 2008

Written, produced and directed by Terrence Malick, pic is his first feature and it's an impressive debut.

| May 16, 2008

Kit is played by Martin Sheen, in one of the great modern film performances.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 23, 2004

Among the great American crime movies, 1973's Badlands stands alone.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000