The Village Voice, December 21st, 2005
THE NEW WORLD
Directed by Terrence Malick
New Line, opens December 25
MR. AND MRS. SMITH
The World is not enough: Malick misses the mark with his meandering Jamestown epic
The New World has an imposing science fiction title, but Terrence Malick's long, moody, diaphanous account of love and loss in 17th-century Jamestown-shot, more or less, on location-rarely achieves the symphonic grandeur it seeks. As an epic, it's monumentally slight. [black square ] Malick's retelling of the Pocahontas story known to every American youngster (but generally underleveraged by American artists) begins wit...
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