
Variety
...merely the latest borderline-awful Malick movie that risks to undermine the genius and mystery of his best work.
Full reviewMichael Fassbender, Ryan Gosling, Rooney Mara and Natalie Portman star in this rock-n-roll love story from three-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker Terrence Malick.
"In this modern love story set against the Austin, Texas music scene, two entangled couples — struggling songwriters Faye (Mara) and BV (Gosling), and music mogul Cook (Fassbender) and the waitress whom he ensnares — chase success through a rock ‘n’ roll landscape of seduction and betrayal." (SXSW Film Festival)
Less...merely the latest borderline-awful Malick movie that risks to undermine the genius and mystery of his best work.
Full reviewNo Badlands, but the best of the recent minor Malicks. And it features Val Kilmer with a chainsaw.
Full review"Song to Song" continually flits - like the butterfly seen in one fleeting shot - from theme to theme, from love (always love) to fidelity, betrayal, identity, art, freedom, captivity, forgiveness and mercy.
Full reviewThere are some inspired visual flourishes and it is a film with its own weird stamina and momentum: sometimes exasperating, sometimes mesmeric.
Full reviewThe famous, finely chiseled faces that drift before the camera both fulfill and complicate one of the director's aims, which is to critique the fleeting temptations and soul-crushing consequences of fame, beauty, power and decadence.
Full reviewThis emotionally challenged romance gives more ammo to those who've turned on the revered auteur.
Full reviewIt won't convert the unconvinced, but it is beautiful, melancholic, audacious and well-played, a refinement rather than reinvention of a singular filmmaker.
Full reviewSong to Song is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Apple TV and Neon Rentals.
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