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The Tree of Life movie reviews

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  The Tree of Life

  Tuesday, July 19, 2011 9:38:17 PM | (Age Not Specified)

  What on earth was that? This is for me the worst movie I have ever seen. I nodded off several times during this long drawn out yawner. Unbelievably boring and unbelievable, period. Brad Pitt's character came across as an unrealistic collage of several incompatible father figure stereotypes. Whatever existential questions his son Jack was supposedly wondering about never became clear. Beautiful cinematography (hence the 1 star rating), but that alone is far from enough to make this worthy of a recommendation. Where can I get my money back? (The 2+ hrs I spent in the theatre are gone forever...)

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  The Tree of Life

  Tuesday, July 19, 2011 9:26:16 PM | (age group: 50 or over.) | F

  I've only walked out on one movie in my entire life, until tonight. This was pure, unadulterated crap. I can't convey my disappointment. Don't buy into this as "artsy"....as if you don't like it you don't get it. There's nothing to get, still waiting for the story to start after two hours in...

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  The Tree of Life

  Tuesday, July 19, 2011 3:13:07 PM | (age group: 50 or over.) | M

  Great acting and cinematography and nontrivial themes; largely free of violence. However, it needed to be shortened throughout, Sean Penn's angst was not believable, and the film generally overreaches itself.

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  The Tree of Life

  Monday, July 18, 2011 10:30:06 PM | (age group: 50 or over.) | F

  This movie is not for a thoughtless shallow generation. It is not for people who expect a fast paced,exciting unfolding of events in their movies. It is more for the quiet, introspective, philosophical, type. It requires effort to embrace.......and time to savor. It is for the mature inquiring mind....

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  The Tree of Life

  Saturday, July 16, 2011 10:59:32 PM | (Age Not Specified)

  Very visual.

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  The Tree of Life

  Friday, July 15, 2011 3:05:31 PM | (Age Not Specified)

  Brilliant. But like most masterpieces it requires you to do your part. A passing familiarity with parts of the Bible would help :) But it's not overtly religious; it's overtly metaphorical, though. There is a narrative; and I didn't find it hard to understand. Is it a little pretentious? Yes. Are some of those metaphors "on the nose"? Yes. Do they still work? Yes. One of the very best I've seen in many, many years.

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  The Tree of Life

  Thursday, July 14, 2011 11:02:00 PM | (Age Not Specified)

  Terrible movie.

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  The Tree of Life

  Wednesday, July 13, 2011 4:46:10 AM | (Age Not Specified)

  This movie would have made a great short film. But turned out being no more than a contrived piece of visual masturbation. A moment of speach followed by 15 minutes of random images (of the creation of the universe)and 5 minutes of black screen is not a movie, it a modern art project. The images are beautiful, unbelievablly beautiful. But thats about it The director may have being trying to contrast the the savagness of the natural world and the lovingness of god, but if so (spolier) why didn't the one dinosaur kill the other one? If you want to validate your religion and look at a 20 minute film spackled into a 2.5 hour spot with brilliantly shot pictures and snippests of vide

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  The Tree of Life

  Tuesday, July 12, 2011 8:14:00 PM | (Age Not Specified)

  it was very slow and never picked up the pace..although Brad looked amazing!

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  The Tree of Life

  Tuesday, July 12, 2011 1:24:20 PM | (Age Not Specified)

  If I could have given it 0 stars I would have. What could have been a great movie about memories of a childhood turned into a pretentious slide show half way through the movie. Ending was ridiculous and weak.