The Tree of Life

This movie feels to me more like a documentary about loss and confusion. Religious doom and human spiritual, "lacrimosa" hope. I am definitely not getting all the subtext references that might make it more attractive but overall I think it's a movie worth a watch. It's sad contemplative style, its disconnected chronology, its difficult to grasp fil rouge made me wonder and kept me looking. As another review mentioned, it's a good collection of nostalgic, emotional and evocative frames. As another stated, it's like two parallel movies together. It brought me tears, peace, curiosity, it made me sleepy and a bit bored but maybe that's not a bad thing as it softly tickled my imagination and reflection with its meditative picture, solemn music and scattered narration. I wouldn't say it's engaging but it will keep me thinking a little bit.

This is absolutely one of the worst movies I have seen in 75 years, and that is a LOT of movies. How does this mess even get financed? Admittedly, I watched 30 minutes of the movie, but I can only imagine it didn't get any better. A waste of time.

C’est une note temporaire du fait que je ne sais pas quoi en penser. Il y a sûrement un message mais pas accessible à tout le monde et le cinéma doit être accessible à tout le monde.

All true magnificence will be more or less incomprehensible and the auteur can either give a tiny tile or a kaleidoscopic hint of this magnificence. The Tree is between these two extremes and will find few but enthusiastic admirers.

One of the worst movies I've watched from 2011. A real snooze fest. Tim Treakle

Self absorbed pretentious nonsense.

I complete waste of time, I could not finish it.

Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life is an ambitious, sprawling meditation on memory, loss, and existence—but one that ultimately feels weighed down by its own self-importance. While visually breathtaking, thanks to Emmanuel Lubezki’s masterful cinematography, the film leans too heavily into abstraction, often prioritizing poetic imagery over emotional engagement. Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain provide strong performances, but the characters feel more like vessels for Malick’s philosophical musings than fully realized individuals. The film’s non-linear structure and grand cosmic sequences, though visually stunning, add to an overwhelming sense of detachment. For all its beauty, The Tree of Life struggles to connect on a human level. It’s a film that some will find deeply moving, but others—myself included—will see as an overly melancholic, meandering work that never quite earns its existential weight.

Possibly the worst film I've ever seen in the cinema. Aggressively dull human relationships story which tries to seem profound by throwing in some National Geographic clips from an origin of life documentary.

A visual masterpiece.