Voyage of Time: Life's Journey
Broad Green Pictures | Release Date: TBA CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
68
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
2
Negative:
2

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The New YorkerRichard BrodySep 24, 2016
Voyage of Time inhabits a rarefied plane of thought, detached from the practicalities of daily life, that leave it open to a facile and utterly unjustified dismissal, given the breathtaking intensity of its stylistic unity and the immediate, firsthand force of its philosophical reflections. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungSep 6, 2016
If there is a missing ingredient in this otherwise extremely impressive opus, however, it is emotion. The contemplation of greatness, vastness and infinity doesn't lend itself to simple feelings and the succession of fantastic natural imagery begins to tire. Read full review
83
The Film StageRory O'ConnorSep 7, 2016
This is not exactly landmark stuff. Many viewers may feel they’ve seen familiar things in the work of David Attenborough, or even in films such as Koyaanisqatsi or Samsara. However, Malick might be singular in his earnest search for the sublime. Read full review
80
The GuardianAndrew PulverSep 7, 2016
Voyage of Time, in the end, is a perhaps an aesthetic experience rather than an particularly informative one, prizing images over data; but what images they are. Read full review
70
Screen DailyLee MarshallSep 7, 2016
It is, in essence, the celebrated ‘cosmic’ sequence from the Tree of Life expanded into a full-length feature, and many of the audio-visual tableaux it weaves are astonishing, mesmerising, delightful. The problem is that they are not also informative. Read full review
67
The PlaylistJessica KiangSep 7, 2016
The very beauty of the pictures, and the exhausting knowledge of how much effort and care went into each peculiar creature, each liquidly expanding nebula, each belching mud spring, contributes to a kind of wonder fatigue, and soon it feels a little like you’ve slipped into a lukewarm bath of imagery. It’s soothing, comfortable, blood-temperature and it doesn’t quicken your pulse one iota or inspire a single thought in your mind that you haven’t had a hundred times before. Read full review
60
Time Out LondonGuy LodgeSep 7, 2016
Voyage of Time veritably tongue-bathes the eyeballs with its succession of extravagant images and with its digitally enhanced vision of a natural world that practically tips the scales into unearthliness. But somehow we're never truly surprised by any of its wonders. Read full review
60
VarietyOwen GleibermanSep 6, 2016
Voyage of Time has too many spellbinding images to count, but as a movie it’s just okay. Read full review
25
IndieWireBen CrollSep 7, 2016
There are sequences and stand-alone shots that will stick with you long after you’ve washed the insipid narration from memory. Read full review
20
CineVueJohn BleasdaleSep 7, 2016
Paradoxically, the wide-eyed awe produces a narrow vision, heavy on the photogenic, with modern life corralled onto a SIM card and loaded with a platitudinous inquisition. Read full review
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