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11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfThe film isn’t heavy on earth science, yet these orange-tinted tide pools and shuddering protomammals indicate a strain of serious research. The world is a miracle and a gift in the movie’s eyes; it would be no small thing if audiences left with the same sense of wonderment.
- 100Village VoiceBilge EbiriVillage VoiceBilge Ebiri[An] inspiring cinematic journey — full of overwhelming beauty, and ready to set the curious viewer's mind aflame.
- 100Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangLos Angeles TimesJustin ChangTerrence Malick’s Voyage of Time: The Imax Experience is a glorious cosmic reverie, a feast for the eyes and a balm for the soul in these angry, contentious times.
- 83The PlaylistJordan RuimyThe PlaylistJordan RuimyWhile ‘Life’s Journey’ might be a deeper meditation on the meaning of life and deeper questions of who we are, The IMAX Experience is a more realized version of similar ideas. Ultimately, The IMAX Experience is a tone poem that not only pays tribute to planet Earth and the life that inhabits it, but marvels at how this miracle was created.
- 83The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayMalick seems to see everything on a cosmic and microscopic scale simultaneously. Drop him in the middle of a suburb and he’ll consider the magnificence of the children playing, the beauty of the grass, and the centuries it took for the rocks to form. That’s why it’s always going to be a rare gift to look at the world through his eyes — especially when he lets the images speak for themselves.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungThe Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungIf the feature film reached for, and often failed to achieve, great emotions to match its imagery, the non-contemplative Imax Experience seems even farther from this goal. Vastness and infinity are all fine and good, but the beauty of the universe tends to feel monstrous and inhuman without an element of human chaos to counterbalance it.
- 63Slant MagazineChristopher GraySlant MagazineChristopher GrayThe film captures our world as systematic yet miraculous, evolving toward more elaborate and resilient forms.
- 63The Seattle TimesSoren AndersenThe Seattle TimesSoren AndersenIt’s essentially a plotless montage, a spellbinding filmic tapestry. Its visuals are out of this world, quite literally in the early going, as it presents the story of the creation of the universe.
- 60The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottMr. Malick presents these events as if he had drawn them not from his mind but from some repository of celestial memory. Which may be to say that Voyage of Time ultimately proves his point about the way the universe and human consciousness mirror each other. But it’s a point that might have been more powerful if he had left it unspoken.
- 58Entertainment WeeklyKevin P. SullivanEntertainment WeeklyKevin P. SullivanVoyage of Time is a beautiful diversion, but almost entirely empty, even in its inquisitive big swings for profundity.