Malick’s simplicity actually works in his benefit (at least for the most part) when it comes to those ideas and Lubeski’s beautiful imagery helps resonate the heart of those ideas.

| Original Score: B | Aug 1, 2024

Movies with far worse intentions have been made. And yet.

| Jan 18, 2023

Whether the spiritual journey belongs to Rick, the film's director, or its audience, Knight of Cups transfixes the viewer in beautiful images and a spare, deeply felt narrative simplicity.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 11, 2022

Your copacetic taste is better than this film and you will be spiritless and dispassionate, matching the assigned astrology.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 12, 2022

'Knight of Cups' is vast. Not everything fits, but that is of little concern.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 8, 2021

It is not possible to organize the complexities of modern life in the pauper's bowl of empty moral abstraction and neo-mysticism in an artistically or intellectually satisfying manner.

| Feb 11, 2021

Tedium, thy name is Knight of Cups.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 3, 2021

A fascinating journey. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 21, 2020

Intense emotion seeps through every frame, and it's our responsibility to fill in the missing pieces ... Most people would be turned off by [Malick]'s style, but for me it is absolutely riveting.

| Original Score: A+ | Jul 13, 2020

The film meanders along and it seems as if the protagonist doesn't change. His journey of self-discovery doesn't go anywhere. You're left feeling as if you've witnessed something beautiful but empty. Perhaps it is a critique of Hollywood after all.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 2, 2020

[It] is indeed an astounding achievement in expanding the limits of cinematic language, but maybe even more astounding are the end credits and media interviews with the actors

| Jul 1, 2020

Knight of Cups is a big pile of nonsense.

| Apr 3, 2020

A beautifully realized dramatization of man's search for meaning.

| Jul 26, 2019

Arguably, this is one of the most achingly profound portraits of contemporary Los Angeles, a city with stunningly beautiful facades, the penultimate shrine to American cinema.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 23, 2019

The lack of any actual plot, one-dimensional characters, the vacant lifestyle of decadence are pretentious at worst and ironic at best.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 5, 2019

Each individual obtains his or her own meanings from the auteur's films. The problem here is that there is too little substance for anyone to feel anything meaningful or profound.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 3, 2019

Knight Of Cups too, like the Tarot card whose meaning depends on which way up it is, could either be a revelation of the search for spirituality that Malick hopes to find inside everyone or its opposite -- emptiness.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 22, 2019

Director Malick does a good job of laying out the monstrous, indulgent allure of showbiz that pulled Rick in and broke him down into the wandering, pulp of a man he is.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Feb 21, 2019

Knight of Cups is the book of Ecclesiastes put to film. I mean this in the best way possible.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 30, 2018

A deeply sensual and mesmeric evocation of the alienating effect of Tinseltown as refracted through our ghostly conduit, Rick.

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