Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Aspect Ratio
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2.35 : 1
Language
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English / Algonquin
Awards
:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 4 wins & 11 nominations
Genre
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Adventure / Biography / Drama / History / Romance
Sound Mix
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DTS / Dolby Digital / SDDS
Overwiew :A Terrence Malick-scripted drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century. Shot In The Back / Sword / Love At First Sight / Gun / USA
USA Today - Claudia Puig : ...feels glacially paced. more...
C
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - William Arnold : ...a richly textured, leisurely paced, visually impressionistic epic of the American past that fairly hypnotizes the viewer with its tapestry of sights, sounds and colors. more...
A-
San Francisco Chronicle - Mick LaSalle : In its emotional effect and in the ways it makes its points, this motion picture is much more akin to poetry or music. more...
A
Rolling Stone - Peter Travers : ...Malick brings his film very close to a state of grace. more...
A-
ReelViews - James Berardinelli : For the most part, I found The New World to be absorbing. There was not a lot of watch watching. more...
B
New York Times - Manohla Dargis : In Mr. Malick's telling, Pocahontas is a woman whose story has the reach of myth and the tragic dimension of life. more...
A-
New York Post - Lou Lumenick : ...this lavish coffee-table-book of a movie gradually reveals itself as an uninvolving, crashing bore. more...
C
Hollywood Reporter - Kirk Honeycutt : An evocative yet slow-moving exploration of the Pocahontas myth. more...
B
filmcritic.com - Chris Barsanti : ...has all the negatives of Thin Red Line (rambling story, little realistic character interaction) and too few of its positives. more...
B-
Entertainment Weekly - Lisa Schwarzbaum : ...magnificent (and magnificently flawed) ... more...
A-
E! Online - ...newcomer Q'Orianka Kilcher might be the most sultry cinematic historical figure to date. : http://www.eonline.com/Reviews/Facts/Movies/Reviews/0,1052,89098,00.html more...
Chicago Tribune - Michael Phillips : The film, which is superb on every technical and design level, has both greatness and fuzzy-headedness in it. more...
A-
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert : The New World is Pocahontas' story, although the movie deliberately never calls her by any name. She is the bridge between the two peoples. more...
A
Boston Globe - Ty Burr : Self-indulgent, gorgeous, maddening, grueling, ultimately transcendent, it's a Terrence Malick movie all the way... more...
A
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Bob Longino : ...more an ethereal cinematic tone poem than plot-driven story. more...
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