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To the Wonder

2012

Terrence Malick

Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Rachel McAdams, Javier Bardem ...

5.2

5,088

Romance. Drama Set over a period of years, this is the story of Neil (Ben Affleck), a failed writer stuck in a loveless marriage with a European woman called Marina (Olga Kurylenko). They seek guidance from Father Quintana (Javier Bardem), a priest frustrated by his inability to live his own life because he’s too busy advising his parishioners on theirs. The couple’s dysfunctional relationship begins to take a toll on their daughter Tatiana (Tatiana ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"Malick continues to take bold risks, courting ridicule and rapture in equal measure, with 'To the Wonder' (...) Those who can't abide Malick's spiritual reveries will steer clear, but flaws and all, this is a (...) work from a filmmaker who hasn't lost his capacity to move and surprise"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"At its best, Malick's cinematic rhapsody is glorious; during his uncertain moments, he appears to be repeating himself. But what delight there is in this film (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Perhaps there is a hidden rhythmic and thematic structure behind the facade of 'To the Wonder' (...) If so, however, it doesn’t assert itself meaningfully (...) a film that seems drained of life and ideas "	NEG
United Kingdom	Ian Freer Empire	"Less ambitious than 'The Tree Of Life', 'To The Wonder' remains 100 per cent pure, unadulterated Malick, an absorbing, thoughtful, moving meditation on the things that matter. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"A beautifully empty exercise that - so glacial is the pace - makes Malick's Tree of Life look like G.I. Joe: Retaliation' (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	Joe Morgenstern The Wall Street Journal	"The film breaks faith with its audience by asking us to care about two profoundly antipathetic characters spouting pseudo-poetic banalities"	NEG

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