It ends as vaguely as it begins, yet with a distinct sense of satisfaction and unexplainable resoluteness (perhaps these characters’ stories are entirely resolved), as if something profound has unfolded amid the odd plainness of it all.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 8, 2024

Malick’s haunting, painterly variation on Biblical stories in the wheat fields of the Texas panhandle just before the First World War is a voluptuous masterpiece, an equation of ironies. Drawn with myth’s simplicity.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jul 4, 2024

Even though the film’s length is a slick 94 minutes, it feels so much longer (in a good way). It’s the type of film that leaves you craving more; but Malick deliberately leaves certain scenes and plot points ambiguous.

| May 16, 2024

Even though the story is simple, Malick uses his camera to elevate the tale into something more cosmic, more glorious than a synopsis could ever allow.

| Mar 12, 2024

The plague of locusts scene, achieved by dumping thousands of peanut shells from a helicopter and playing the eventual footage backwards, is a knockout.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 2, 2024

There’s food for thought in the imagery of a man from the steelworks corrupting a man from the natural world... Look at it however you’d like. The film demands no conclusions.

| Dec 3, 2023

Terrence Malick’s ethereal, windswept ballad of love, lust, and nature’s wrath remains an otherworldly triumph.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 19, 2023

“Days of Heaven” is a good movie with a lot of artistic elements, but at times feels like it is a little lost in its intended journey.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 4, 2023

Days of Heaven has got to be the quietest spectacular ever filmed. With the confidence of a black-belt fighter, it doesn't flex its muscles or flaunt its power.

| Aug 30, 2022

Days of Heaven is unquestionably the most visually ravishing film in a very long time... The images of Néstor Almendros, rhythmically assembled by editor Billy Weber, make Malick's film a sensualist's delight that one yearns to experience again.

| Aug 30, 2022

Alongside the unforgettable cinematography sits Ennio Morricone’s soulful, aching score. It is impeccably in tune with Malick’s vision and is among some of the late composer’s most timeless work.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 20, 2022

Malick’s masterpiece is one of the most original and complex films in the contemporary cinema.

| May 3, 2022

Malick has controlled the film so precisely that an even slightly abrupt camera movement can produce a greater effect than any Peckinpah bloodbath.

| Apr 4, 2022

I am a Malick skeptic but this was sharp, not self-indulgent, and achieved the "epic in a nutshell" feeling it was going for.

| Dec 20, 2021

Malick crafted a film resembling that of a loving memory; like a time and place that has long passed that we wish to somehow return.

| Aug 11, 2020

A love story that despite its dramatic ending, skies, fires, and ode to nature doesn't manage to move us much. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 6, 2019

The peak moment of Malick's career where he found the perfect blend of a respectful command of storytelling versus the more abstract submission to a cinema of the senses.

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

Where Badlands was about the unilateral influences of untamed landscapes on two young urban delinquents, Days of Heaven widens its perspective to describe no less than mankind, the Earth, and their mutual interaction.

| Jan 31, 2018

Malick's magnum opus shimmers with the sensuality of a languorous summer afternoon.

| Jun 30, 2017

Ethereal, gorgeous, and evocative.

| Original Score: A+ | Feb 21, 2014