Knight of Cups

"Knight of Cups is best taken as an experimental mood piece, a cinematic meditation of love, loss and identity. As a feature film with an A-list cast, it is absurdly hermetic: a mystery without anything approaching a key. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"
 

"By the time you've seen the fifth beautiful, lithe woman in flowing fabrics spinning around Bale, Knight of Cups starts to read more as a fleeting fetish epic than a powerful meditation" 

"A resolutely poetic and impressionist film about creative paralysis (...) it doesn't build or pay off with what it seems designed to do, which is to provide either a dramatic or philosophical apotheosis." 

"Malick has frankly declined. There are moments of visual brilliance here, moments of reverence and even grandeur (...) But his style is stagnating into mannerism, cliche and self-parody (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)" 

"Those of us who had hoped that "Knight of Cups" might see Malick changing tack a bit after the progressive steps toward a far-off horizon that were 'The Tree of Life' (...) are bound for disappointment, as his new film finds him more abstruse than ever" 

"There’s no denying this star-studded, never-a-dull-moment cinematic oddity represents another flawed but fascinating reframing of man’s place in the modern world." 

With the corpse of a nightmare called Knight of Cups, I have finally given up on Terrence Malick. This dog of a film is as riveting and fascinating as a walk-in bathtub (...) Rating: 0 (out of four)" 

"A bold and ambitious film – some may say pretentious – packed with striking visual moments"