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New World, The (2005) Movie Reviews

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Movie critics combined give New World, The (2005) a score of 2.8124 out of 4

based on (306) reviews

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Excellent

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Very Good

(188)

Good

(57)

Fair

(7)

Poor

(1)

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Entertainment Weekly

Many have tried, but none can match Malick's touch for shuffling a deck of elegiac images (water/sky/clouds/rain) and fanning out the hand to express what speech cannot; he's a master, too, of incorporating sound that is often wordless but never empty....read the complete New World, The (2005) review at Entertainment Weekly

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Portland Oregonian (Shawn Levy)

Malick is a unique director of extraordinary gifts, of that there can be no doubt. If he ever chooses to shoot a script as fine as his technique, he will surely produce a masterpiece of the medium....read the complete New World, The (2005) review at Portland Oregonian (Shawn Levy)

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Village Voice (J. Hoberman)

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....read the complete New World, The (2005) review at Village Voice (J. Hoberman)

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Movie Parables (Michael Elliott)

As a filmmaker, [Malick] is a fine cinematographer%u2026 but he's a poor storyteller....read the complete New World, The (2005) review at Movie Parables (Michael Elliott)

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eFilmCritic.com (Erik Childress)

If it were any more obtuse, The New World would be a flipbook where the moving picture was obscured by a thumb drawn over the stick figures....read the complete New World, The (2005) review at eFilmCritic.com (Erik Childress)

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