Because Song to Song is so sprawling, there are moments that arrest some and not others, but it’d be almost impossible to walk away from the film without any memories resurfacing.

| Dec 6, 2023

A story whose predictability doesn't make the experience less exciting. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 24, 2020

Prepare to be enthralled by the beauty and frustrated by the characters in equal measure. The experience is the same as going to an art gallery, something I love to do. Malick's work is art and art is supposed to be challenging.

| Jul 12, 2020

[The film] gets away from [Malick]. It's still full of gorgeous shots and all that, but each individual element is just a bit subpar, resulting in an unsatisfying film overall

| Jul 1, 2020

The film is an experimental romance that has seduced us. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 27, 2020

Malick is almost challenging us to enjoy ourselves on any level. It's as if he's attempting to inject a soul into characters and events that are inherently soulless.

| May 5, 2020

[Song to Song] is short on plot, but Malick masterfully captures fleeting moments of beauty.

| Mar 30, 2020

Although beautiful and maintaining a weird momentum throughout, Malick's ethereal and dreamlike approach to storytelling may finally be wearing a little thin.

| Feb 13, 2020

Overall, Song to Song comes across as all style and no substance, which disappointingly leads to nowhere.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 12, 2019

Malick continues to force us to examine the contemporary human condition wherein success, achievement, and tangible possessions only enhance our disenchantment with the life we know reconciled with the feelings we expect.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 5, 2019

Even though there seemed to be a more discernible storyline here than in previous works like Tree of Life, this film just plods along at a languid pace.

| Sep 6, 2019

Song to Song is slightly disappointing. Rooney Mara's voiceover only offers empty platitudes and Ryan Gosling's romantic hero is sweet and endearing but ultimately quite boring.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 1, 2019

Though there are times when you're dying for any excuse to look away from the monotony of the montage, it's yet another vanity project that's as isolating as it is immersive.

| Original Score: C | Dec 12, 2018

...embodies the notion of a cyclical story, one which turns and returns like a revolving record, or a girl twirling in circles in a field or against the Austin skyline.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2018

A better-than-expected Malick may not be as good as transcendent Malick. I will take it at any rate.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 10, 2018

Malick seeks only to gorge on the emotional malcontent of his disaffected players. They don't seek transcendence from their lot, just pity in finding the right partner.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 3, 2018

Outside of the more standard Malick-isms, Song to Song also has a troubling relationship with women, making their role secondary to a man's and establishing a mood of objectification.

| Original Score: 4.5/10 | Oct 16, 2018

I'm pretty sure Terrence Malick pulled an Adam Sandler on me because this is nothing but him, Fassbender, Mara, and Gosling going on vacation to Texas and South America.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 30, 2018

"Song to Song" seems, and I believe I said this when I reviewed Malick's last movie "Knight of Cups," embarrassingly similar to a perfume commercial.

| Aug 23, 2018

t does indeed have beautiful people in the shape of Ryan Gosling and Rooney Mara... and Michael Fassbender as the Faustian agent who promises them the world, but it also has something resembling a story and celebrity cameos besides.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 23, 2018