Timeout: There’s so much brilliance at work in ‘The Tree of Life’, the new film from Terrence Malick, and the film’s ambition and willingness to lay itself open to interpretation are hard to fault. But it’s also difficult not to conclude that this hugely anticipated film from American cinema’s lesser-spotted poet of man and nature is a work that stretches itself so broadly by asking the Big Questions that it ends up dealing in platitudes.
