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By Ginak (385) on 26 Dec 2019

A beautifully elegiac film by Terence Malick about Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian peasant farmer who would not fight for the Nazis in World…

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By Liam Lacey (1,725) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 23 Dec 2019

Terrence Malick’s latest, A Hidden Life, is one of the year’s most ambitious films and an arguable masterpiece, though, admittedly, your…

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By Moviemitch96 (552) on 21 Dec 2019

This is a true story about a young Austrian farmer by the name of Franz Jagerstatter, a conscientious objector who refuses to fight for the…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 20 Dec 2019

A Hidden Life is indisputably the finest work Malick has produced in eight years, as an examination of faith, conviction and sacrifice, but…

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By Moira Macdonald (1,892) for The Seattle Times (964) on 19 Dec 2019

You can imagine how other filmmakers might approach this — it’s a beautifully cinematic story — but no one else would film it quite as…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 19 Dec 2019

Unlike his last two films, Song to Song and Knight of Cups, which dithered in a metaphysical malaise, this thrums with a spiritual vigor…

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By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 19 Dec 2019

There’s no mystery here, no narrator wrestling with the limits of his own generosity and tolerance…

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By Clint Worthington (295) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 19 Dec 2019

It’s hard not to see the parallels between A Hidden Life‘s setting and the modern-day world in which it’s released…

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By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 19 Dec 2019

A Hidden Life is less a story than an experience, a spiritual journey made accessible through light and sound…

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By Marc Savlov (2,019) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 18 Dec 2019

Diehl’s performance is a model of restraint; he more often imparts information by a look, a glance, the slump of his shoulders, than he does…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 18 Dec 2019

The movie takes its place alongside Martin Scorsese’s “Silence” (2016) as a work of true solemnity, one that wonders what we owe the…

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By Barry Hertz (792) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 18 Dec 2019

When Malick reaches the end of Jaggerstatter’s story, A Hidden Life does reach something profound. Relief, maybe, that the film was over…

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By Cmc (25) on 18 Dec 2019

Powerful and genuine…

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By Pberra (4) on 16 Dec 2019

If you liked Malick's previous films, you should enjoy this one too…

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By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 15 Dec 2019

The current implications of A Hidden Life feel most pressing here: Malick is asking the audience (and himself) if they would capitulate in…

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By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 14 Dec 2019

We shouldn’t be so smug as to assume that we would always know the right thing to do, or even be brave enough to do it, Malick seems to say…

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By Chris Tilly (98) for IGN (1,013) on 13 Dec 2019

A Hidden Life is both inspiring and heartbreaking, and the result is Terrence Malick’s best film in nearly a decade…

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By Matt Zoller Seitz (637) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 13 Dec 2019

It’s one of the year’s best and most distinctive movies, though sure to be divisive, even alienating for some viewers, in the manner of…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 13 Dec 2019

It’s a lovely, immersive experience, a movie that invites the viewer to ponder the nature of conscience, the bravery of conscientous objecting…

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By Mattbrady99 (654) on 13 Dec 2019

LIFF33 2019 #3 “If God gives us free will, we are responsible for what we do or what we fail to do.” Ambitious, but strangely simple…

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