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91
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The Playlist Oliver Lyttelton
A beautiful, hearfelt and raw piece of work.
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90
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Time Richard Corliss
This is a test, requiring rapt concentration and acute attention, and repaying a hundredfold. For spectators dulled by the midget movies of an arrtstically timid era, the film may be a chore. For those on Malick's rarified wavelength, it's a wonder.
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83
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indieWIRE Eric Kohn
To the Wonder renders the familiar terrain of romantic dysfunction on a grand scale. Malick haters may not change their tune, but at least they can admit that To the Wonder maintains a consistent thematic focus.
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80
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The Guardian Peter Bradshaw
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.
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80
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Total Film James Mottram
To The Wonder doesn't quite live up to the sky-high expectations set by his earlier films. But it's still a brave, soul-stirring and sensitive work.
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80
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Empire
Less ambitious than The Tree Of Life, To The Wonder remains 100 percent pure, unadulterated Malick, an absorbing, thoughtful, moving meditation on the things that matter.
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67
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Film.com Jordan Hoffman
To the Wonder is distinctly lacking in oomph and, without an emotional connection, without anything interesting happening on the screen, the beauty can only take you so far before the endeavor falls like a house of cards.
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63
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Slant Magazine Ed Gonzalez
Throughout To the Wonder, the new and old are incessantly twinned, blurred into a package that suggests an experimental dance piece.
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30
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The Hollywood Reporter Todd McCarthy
A film that seems drained of life and ideas rather than sustained by them.
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