The Tree of Life

"A unique film (...) a beauteous creation that ponders the imponderables, asks the questions that religious and thoughtful people have posed for millennia and provokes expansive philosophical musings along with intense personal introspection." 

"With disarming sincerity and daunting formal sophistication 'The Tree of Life' ponders some of the hardest and most persistent questions, the kind that leave adults speechless when children ask them" 

"Even by [Malick's] standards, "The Tree of Life" represents something extraordinary. (...) his simplest yet most challenging work, (...) Result is pure-grade art cinema." 

"[Malick is] a meticulous visionary who knows where to place a camera, but he hasn't a clue about how to tell a story with simplicity and coherence" 

"A film of vast ambition and deep humility, attempting no less than to encompass all of existence and view it through the prism of a few infinitesimal lives (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)" 

"Prehistoric and cosmic visions aside, Terrence Malick's film is an unashamedly epic reflection on love and loss. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of five)" 

"There is simply nothing like it out there: profound, idiosyncratic, complex, sincere and magical; a confirmation that cinema can aspire to art. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of five)"