Synopsis
A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.
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Cast
- Colin FarrellCaptain Smith
- Q'orianka KilcherPocahontas
- Christopher PlummerCaptain Newport
- Christian BaleJohn Rolfe
- August SchellenbergPowhatan
- Wes StudiOpechancanough
- David ThewlisWingfield
- Yorick van WageningenCaptain Argall
- Raoul Max TrujilloTomocomo
- Michael GreyeyesRupwew
Recommendations
- 100
Los Angeles Times
A work of breathtaking imagination, less a movie than a mode of transport, and in every sense a masterpiece. - 88
Rolling Stone
Malick and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki -- a grandmaster at blending color and natural light -- craft a tone poem that may throw some audiences through its use of interior monologues. - 80
Newsweek
Malick's magnificent, frustrating epic mixes fact and legend to conjure up a reverie about Pocahontas (Q'orianka Kilcher), her love for Capt. John Smith (Colin Farrell) and her crossing from one culture to another. - 80
Time
This is no breathless film fantasy; its pulse is stately, contemplative. But anyone who has keen eyes and an open heart will surely go soaring and crashing with the lovers lost in Malick's exotic, erotic new world. - 80
The New Yorker
Whole passages of non-event stream by, and you half want to scream, and yet--damn it all--by the end of The New World the spell of the images, plus the enigma of Kilcher's expression (she is as sculpted as an idol, and every bit as amenable to worship), somehow breaks you down. - 75
ReelViews
The New World is beautiful and lyrical and, except for the ill-advised voiceovers, a treat for more than one of the senses. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
This is resolutely a film of the imagination. As with all films in Malick's slim body of work, its imagery, haunting sounds and pastoral mood trump narrative. - 60
Village Voice
Malick's long, moody, diaphanous account of love and loss in 17th-century Jamestown--shot, more or less, on location--rarely achieves the symphonic grandeur it seeks. As an epic, it's monumentally slight.
