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Show all (12)In this highly philosophical film by acclaimed director Terrence Malick, young Jack (Hunter McCracken) is one of three brothers growing up as part of the O'Brien family in small-town Texas. Jack has a contentious relationship with his father (Brad Pitt), but gets along well with his beautiful mother (Jessica Chastain). As an adult, Jack (Sean Penn) struggles with his past and tries to make sense of his childhood, while also grappling with bigger existential issues.
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Like his previous film, lush colonial epic The New World, Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life is concerned with nothing less than the loss of paradise. This time, however, the famously reclusive Texan has upped the ante, which is hard not to do when you feature a long, abstract sequence depicting the birth of the cosmos (cute dinosaurs included). An audacious visual poet known for gently probing life’s big questions, Malick has gone to the source of it all. He’s gifted enough to bring out the spiritual dimensions of astrophysics. (Full review)