FILMLAB:A rambling disappointment with wonderful moments

IN HIS 70TH YEAR, Malick must be feeling time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near. Which is why we’ve had to wait a mere 19 months for his sixth film rather than the customary decade or more. While clearly the work of the director of Days of Heaven, the pastoral tragedy that remains his masterpiece, To the Wonder is a rambling disappointment with wonderful moments, mostly visual.