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The Tree of Life–a very late review

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Rob Archer
Aug 25, 2013
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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…

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