Terrence Malick

Terrence Malick

Director (b. 1943)
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The ThumbScore for Terrence Malick (65.5%) is the average audience approval rating across 10 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Terrence's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

10
Movies
65.5%
Avg ThumbScore
Drama
Top Genre

Frequent Collaborators

Cate Blanchett (3)Sean Penn (2)Christian Bale (2)Natalie Portman (2)Brad Pitt (1)

Terrence Malick (born November 30, 1943) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. In a career spanning over five decades, Malick has directed nine feature films. He is known for his singular style that combines loose narrative and editing structure with spiritual themes. Malick made his feature film debut with Badlands (1973), a crime drama loosely inspired by the Starkweather-Fugate murders. He followed it with Days of Heaven (1978), a lyrical period drama about migrant laborers in the Texas Panhandle, which earned widespread acclaim for its cinematography. After this success, Malick took a two-decade hiatus from filmmaking before returning with The Thin Red Line (1998), an ensemble war epic set during the Battle of Guadalcanal, based on the novel of the same name by James Jones.

The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score and Best Sound. He continued with The New World (2005), a meditative historical drama depicting the story of Pocahontes and the founding of Jamestown. Malick achieved critical prominence with The Tree of Life (2011), an ambitious family drama that won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and is frequently cited as one of the greatest films of the 21st century. This was followed by a series of more experimental, impressionistic works including To the Wonder (2012), Knight of Cups (2015), and Song to Song (2017), which explored themes of love, faith, and modern alienation through fragmented narrative and visual storytelling. Malick also directed the large-scale documentary Voyage of Time (2016), a cosmic history of the universe released in both IMAX and feature-length versions. He later returned to historical drama with A Hidden Life (2019), about Austrian conscientious objector Franz JΓ€gerstΓ€tter during World War II.

Born 1943-11-30 in Ottawa, Illinois, USA.

On ThumbScore, Terrence Malick appears in 10 films with an average audience score of 65.5%, most frequently in the Drama genre.

Sources: TMDB

Filmography & Ratings

Badlands
Badlands
1974
πŸ‘ 77%
The Thin Red Line
The Thin Red Line
1998
πŸ‘ 76%
Days of Heaven
Days of Heaven
1978
πŸ‘ 71%
A Hidden Life
A Hidden Life
2019
πŸ‘ 69%
The New World
The New World
2005
πŸ‘ 68%
Knight of Cups
Knight of Cups
2015
πŸ‘ 63%
The Tree of Life
The Tree of Life
2011
πŸ‘ 62%
Voyage of Time: Life's Journey
Voyage of Time: Life's Journey
2017
πŸ‘ 60%
To the Wonder
To the Wonder
2013
πŸ‘ 58%
Song to Song
Song to Song
2017
πŸ‘ 51%
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