What other films have seen their heroes roam the red landscape or tussle with its residents?
Badlands is perhaps most different from the rest of Terrence Malick’s oeuvre in its straightforward narrative continuity.
Malick’s beloved first film gets a somewhat light, though reverent, treatment from Criterion.
Phoned-in portent and feigned profundity form the basis of each of the seven interlocking narratives that comprise Cloud Atlas.
The screenwriters are savvy enough to acknowledge that audiences have moved on from Ethan Hunt and the IMF.