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By Sara Stewart (700) for New York Post (6,650) on 24 Aug 2016

A vague, syrupy soundtrack plays across scenes both current and past, making the whole thing feel like a bad soap opera…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Variety (12,700) on 15 Aug 2016

This risibly long-winded drama is perhaps above all a profound cultural insult, milking the lush green scenery of Japan’s famous Aokigahara…

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By Tim Robey (1,578) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 15 Aug 2016

Van Sant wanted to study a man drowning in sorrow and guide him towards the light…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for indieWire (3,631) on 15 Aug 2016

Not even Matthew McConaughey can sustain the mushy, amateurish story, which digs itself a deeper hole as it moves along…

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By Wesley Morris (1,967) for Grantland (318) on 15 Aug 2016

You know, artistically, that the news is going to be bad in the opening minutes when Van Sant feels compelled to provide a shot of the keys…

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By James Lattimer (30) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Aug 2016

There's little here to suggest that the film is anything more than a hastily cobbled-together studio star vehicle…

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By Giovanni Marchini Camia (57) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 22 Feb 2016

The Sea of Trees feels compelled to spoon-feed every single aspect of its painfully banal story…

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By Alex Leadbeater (83) for What Culture (594) on 24 Sep 2015

Flawed from a conceptual level, The Sea Of Trees has moments of interest ... but not enough to make up for such obvious storytelling…

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By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 01 Jun 2015

Gus Van Sant has made the weakest movie of his career, which is particularly unfortunate given that it stars Matthew McConaughey, who's been…

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By Gregory Ellwood (229) for Hitfix (861) on 22 May 2015

The resulting film is yet another example of a Black List script that does not work on the screen…

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By John Bleasdale (289) for CineVue (2,163) on 22 May 2015

It has to be said that Van Sant is not above doing one for the studio but quite what sins he had committed to be made to make this pile of…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 22 May 2015

Gus Van Sant’s sticky, gooey side — previously on display in the likes of Finding Forrester and especially in the 2011 Restless — oozes…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 22 May 2015

For all its apparent sombreness and thoughtfulness, The Sea Of Trees is an exasperatingly shallow film on an important and agonisingly painful…

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By Jason Gorber (520) for ScreenAnarchy (469) on 16 May 2015

Everything feels like it's trying too hard to appease both thematic poles, and things aren't helped when the final reveals (and there are several)…

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By Charles Gant (85) for Screen International (2,241) on 15 May 2015

As all the dots join in a pattern that strives for deeper meaning, the just too-damned-cute Sea of Trees becomes undone by a surfeit of contrived…

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By Oliver Lyttelton (141) for The Playlist (3,871) on 14 May 2015

From the cloying, ever-present score to the complete lack of narrative momentum, it all adds up to a film that's easily Van Sant's worst, and…

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By Donald Clarke (1,051) for Irish Times (1,391) on 14 May 2015

There exist, I suppose, people who wonder what Gus Van Sant directing Nicholas Sparks might look like. After all, there are people who eat soil…

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By Adam Woodward (285) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 14 May 2015

The Sea of Trees touts a variety of lazy stereotypes in the hope of saying something vaguely profound about how the processes of grief and…

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By Guy Lodge (731) for Time Out (7,510) on 14 May 2015

Resembles one of Japanese auteur Naomi Kawase's spiritualist tone poems brutally hijacked in the editing suite by M Night Shyamalan…

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