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

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

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

Simply one of the most ravishing films ever made, luminous in a way that no other movie has been.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 2, 2011

A rich and rewarding experience, then as now celebrated for its intricacy and slowness.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 1, 2011

A second chance for Malick to cast away the chemical stained print and achieve the film he envisioned, and a second chance for audiences to experience a true classic on the big screen.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 31, 2011

Visually and thematically, it's still one of the most beautiful films ever made.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 31, 2011

This is the towering, unconventional power of a true artist.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 23, 2007

One of the great cinematic achievements of the 1970s.

| Oct 23, 2007

To hell with equivocation or beating around the bush: Terrence Malick's 1978 Days of Heaven is the greatest film ever made.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 22, 2007

Perhaps the most typical example of a '70s American art film -- daring, romantic, rebellious but also filled with longing for the beauty of the past.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 27, 2006

Days of Heaven never really makes up its mind what it wants to be.

| May 21, 2003

So beautiful that it touches heaven itself.

| Mar 10, 2003

It is the closest to poetry in motion that I have ever seen.

| Jan 1, 2000

This is a movie made by a man who knew how something felt, and found a way to evoke it in us.

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

[A] masterpiece.

| Jan 1, 2000

Almost incontestably the most gorgeously photographed film ever made.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000