Movie Review

The New World (2005)

EW's GRADE
A-

Details Release Date: Jan 20, 2006; Limited Release: Dec 25, 2005; Rated: PG-13; Length: 135 Minutes; Genre: Historical; With: Christian Bale, Colin Farrell and Q'orianka Kilcher; Distributor: New Line Cinema

Director Terrence Malick has trimmed 15 minutes from his magnificent Jamestown epic, and the new version conveys a luminous vision of risks taken and chances lost. As John Smith (Colin Farrell) is bewitched by Pocahontas (Q'orianka Kilcher), Malick shuffles a deck of elegiac images (water/sky/clouds/rain).

Originally posted Jan 27, 2006 Published in issue #861 Feb 03, 2006 Order article reprints
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