The New World

Name: The New World
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Released: December 25, 2005
Duration: 135 min
Rating: 69
Cast: Christopher Plummer, Colin Farrell, Q'orianka Kilcher

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New Line Cinema | Release Date: December 25, 2005 | PG-13

Starring: Christopher Plummer, Colin Farrell, Q'orianka Kilcher

Summary: The New World is a sweeping adventure set amidst the first encounter of European and Native American cultures during the founding of the Jamestown Virginia settlement in 1607. Acclaimed filmmaker Terence Malick brings to life his own unique interpretation of the classic tale of Pocahontas and her relationships with adventurer John Smith andThe New World is a sweeping adventure set amidst the first encounter of European and Native American cultures during the founding of the Jamestown Virginia settlement in 1607. Acclaimed filmmaker Terence Malick brings to life his own unique interpretation of the classic tale of Pocahontas and her relationships with adventurer John Smith and aristocrat John Rolfe. This woman's remarkable journey of love lost and found takes her from the untouched beauty of the Virginia wilderness to the upper crust of English socirty as we witness the dawn of a new America. (New Line Productions)… Expand

Director: Terrence Malick

Genre(s): Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 135 min

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Carina Chocano

A work of breathtaking imagination, less a movie than a mode of transport, and in every sense a masterpiece. Read full review

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Ty Burr

The New World is something I don't think I've ever seen before on a movie screen: an epic lyrical dialectic. Self-indulgent, gorgeous, maddening, grueling, ultimately transcendent, it's a Terrence Malick movie all the way, and possibly the director's most sustained work since 1972's "Badlands." Read full review

Michael Sragow

Despite its haphazard rhythms and longueurs, The New World achieves an emotional payoff unlike anything else in Malick's work. It's all you think his movies are, and more. Read full review

James Berardinelli

The New World is beautiful and lyrical and, except for the ill-advised voiceovers, a treat for more than one of the senses. Read full review

Mike Clark

Pocahontas catching us off-guard with an impromptu cartwheel isn't the knock-you-down brainstorm of Naomi Watts juggling for King Kong, but it's still deliciously inspired. Trouble is, the bit lasts two seconds, while the movie is a long "might have been" that's doomed to be buried in a flurry of strong late-year releases. Read full review

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 full review

Stanley Kauffmann

Malick continues to float along the edge of the American film world as an unusually intelligent personage who occasionally delivers the fruit of his meditations. But his role as adjunct philosophe is better than the films he eventually gives us. Read full review

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BaronJ.

Jan 22, 2006

Beautiful, there ain't no other words to describe it

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JohnV.

Feb 7, 2006

Terence Malical comes through again, with a film that transends the conventional film experience to bring to our minds and eyes, a visually stunning peice of reflective and challenging cinema.

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schrodinger

Nov 30, 2011

Terrence Malick is a genius and a real artist. Exactly... This film is lighter then The Thin Red Line, but The New World is an amazing philosophical orgasm. Long and slow, even so beautiful and never dull. Colin Farrell is a great actor, but the best was Christian Bale. The script isTerrence Malick is a genius and a real artist. Exactly... This film is lighter then The Thin Red Line, but The New World is an amazing philosophical orgasm. Long and slow, even so beautiful and never dull. Colin Farrell is a great actor, but the best was Christian Bale. The script is lyrical, the shot is wonderful. Need more?… Expand

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Stephen

May 4, 2006

If The Thin Red Line was - emphatically

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cabrita

Dec 23, 2011

Malick's "The New World" try's to be profound and is at times, but it is always held back by it's horrible storytelling, Malick is master of all technical elements in film but he fails to draw in his audience. One can marvel at all his other skills like the cinematography and well writtenMalick's "The New World" try's to be profound and is at times, but it is always held back by it's horrible storytelling, Malick is master of all technical elements in film but he fails to draw in his audience. One can marvel at all his other skills like the cinematography and well written dialogue, but they will always be distant from the story. The begining of the film captivated my mind and pulled me in. However halfway through the film Malick failed to capture the love story and present it in a interesting way. Malick's The New World is a great story but it's extreme length and bad storytelling stop this film from being a masterpiece… Expand

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Mikeb

May 13, 2006

Could have been much better. Hard to follow and lacked smoothness. Q'Orianka Kilcher captured the innocence of youth and Native Americans. The movie just was poorly edited and that is what hurt the film more than anything else

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SamJ.

Jan 22, 2006

A ponderous, vacuous and pointless film...best film of the year??? Next joke....maybe the worst!

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