Despite a lackluster script, I think the performances are exactly what Malick, the director, was wanting out of them.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 23, 2024

To The Wonder isn't a diatribe or a lamentation. It's the celebration of movement, of the existence of earth and water, of a woman's hair and face, of the possibility of human contact in moments of loneliness. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 23, 2022

What an audience makes of To the Wonder must be a personal experience, although the basic threads of the story have autobiographical relevance for the director.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 6, 2022

Malick has given us another standout picture that takes a real (sometimes uncomfortably so) look at relationships, faith, and the quest for love in both.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 27, 2022

This a film that lives in the fine details and that means its got loads of rewatchability. Though it's by no means one of Malick's best, it certainly stands head and shoulders above most of the shlock in the multiplexes.

| Nov 12, 2020

It is destined to be a film embraced by some, loathed by many, and misunderstood by most.

| Original Score: 4.0/4.0 | Sep 26, 2020

It is undeniable to say that 'To The Wonder' would have been an excellent silent film, but since it is not, the problem here is its narrative, the unfriendly characters and, obviously, the drought of the dialogues. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jun 25, 2020

Although the filmmaker often puts specifically Christian imagery into his film, his sensibility turns out to be more Zen: he can find manifestations of glory in both the noblest gesture and the darkest impulse.

| Mar 25, 2020

...To The Womder rises above its several flaws, proving to be a sensory visual feast that captures the soul of life in all its wonder.

| Nov 27, 2019

To the Wonder's scenario threatens to become a hermetic montage of Malick tropes. All divine energy without the gravitas of the dark matter.

| Aug 14, 2019

Experimentation in form is always a welcome license of the talented director. But complete liberation from all narrative structure also demands that something else of interest take its place, and To the Wonder never finds that interest.

| Aug 5, 2019

A mesmerizing, haunting work of immense beauty and insight, a film that is constantly alive, pulsing with feeling and emotion in every frame.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 8, 2019

Where The Tree of Life was sanctimonious, To the Wonder is about the failure of sanctimony.

| Feb 22, 2019

A sinuous tapestry of breathtaking imagery, To the Wonder is undeniably a beautiful example of a visionary filmmaker creating yet another visual rhapsody.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 9, 2019

One of the best expositions of the perceptual potential of cinema; Malick succeeds in crystallising the precarious sentiment of emotion in the early stages of a relationship.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 3, 2019

To the Wonder is intoxicating, no doubt, but not as a movie. Watched in a theater, it's boring and pretentious. It would actually serve much better playing on a wall at a party.

| Oct 17, 2018

Is Malick so revered that nobody has the presence of mind to sit down with him and plead, "Please, Terrence: enough with the twirling!"

| Aug 30, 2018

Malick maintains his signature esoteric post-narrative style with the romantic drama.

| Aug 7, 2018

Part of the problem with "To the Wonder" is that it doesn't offer credible characters, just postures.

| Feb 21, 2018

Though Malick has a knack for enhancing the mood of each scene with stunning visual effects, it's not enough to boost the film.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 7, 2017