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Song to Song

2017

Terrence Malick

Michael Fassbender, Ryan Gosling, Rooney Mara, Natalie Portman ...

5.3

2,455

Drama. Romance Two intersecting love triangles. Obsession and betrayal set against the music scene in Austin, Texas. Two entangled couples — struggling songwriters Faye (Rooney Mara) and BV (Ryan Gosling), and music mogul Cook (Michael Fassbender) and the waitress whom he ensnares (Natalie Portman) — chase success through a rock ‘n’ roll landscape of seduction and betrayal.

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"We've heard it all before: soul-sick characters, wide-angle vignettes, wispy poetic musings (...) It pains me to say it, but Malick might want to consider another lengthy hiatus."	NEG
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"Gives more ammo to those who've turned on the revered auteur. (...) Suffice to say that Song to Song is not designed to win back onetime admirers who felt Malick's To the Wonder and Knight of Cups drowned in their own navels."6	NEG
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Very Malick, and not much more (...) The results are as gorgeous and meandering as you might expect. (...) much of the movie’s potential is overshadowed by the impulses of a director unwilling to get there."	NEU
United States	Joe McGovern Entertainment Weekly	"In terms of content and meaningfulness, Terrence Malick's Song to Song is the cinematic equivalent of a Trump press conference."	NEG
United Kingdom	Christopher Hooton The Independent	"A masterpiece, life-changing and other superlatives I stand by (...) It is suffused with that feeling of when you want to cry but can't (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Jordan Hoffman The Guardian	"'Song to Song' is, once you root around for a story, the best of a recent trilogy (…) What ultimately happens is broadly predictable, but the key difference is that you care (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"[It] plumbs new boreholes of cringe (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Melissa Anderson Village Voice	"Chastely childish (...) In fact, so enervated, so physically insubstantial is Rooney's character that we rarely see Faye engage in the kinetic activity most often performed by Malick's women"	NEG
United States	Bilge Ebiri Village Voice	"Connect with the kineticism of 'Song to Song', and it might just leave you breathless."	POS

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