New World Charts Familiar Territory for Malick

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About the most useful guideline I can offer regarding "The New World" is: If you didn’t connect with director Terrence Malick’s other movies - and there are only three of them, 1973’s "Badlands," 1978’s "Days of Heaven," 1998’s "The Thin Red Line" - then you’re not going to plug into this one.

It’s a Malick movie through and through, never mind that it retells one of the most familiar stories on the History Channel planet: the Jamestown, Va., saga of Capt. John Smith and his beloved Pocahontas, who, when last encountered at the movies, had gone the pasteurized Disney animated musical route.

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New World Charts Familiar Territory for Malick

Interestingly, Malick’s famously long-term obsessing hasn’t ever really paid off in a big way, either critically or publicly. His movies usually divide reviewers down the middle and alienate a larger percentage of the movie-going masses, m...

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