The Tree of Life: a very late review

After avoiding it for a long, long time, I finally got around to seeing Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, a movie some of my film buff friends say is one of the greatest ever made. Others say it’s total crap. So I knew a film that polarizing had to at least be interesting.

Oh, it was.

First of all, it’s beautiful, gorgeous and soaring. Some of the image…