There was a time when awaiting a Terrence Malick picture took on religious proportions: The notoriously un-prolific Malick was the Desert Father of American cinema, refusing the blandishments of ...

“Knight of Cups” (named for a card in the tarot deck) delivers us to the brooding company of an enigmatic, largely silent Hollywood type named Rick (Bale) who spends more time searching for ...

Early on in Terrence Malick’s new film Knight of Cups, Rick — a self-indulgent screenwriter with a failed marriage behind him who soothes his existential ails with a parade of random models ...

The Knight of Cups is an explicit reference to one of the cards of the tarot, marking Rick as someone who is restless, artistic, romantic and adventurous by temperament. Many of the other figures ...

Rick’s struggle is visualized with dumbfounding simplicity ... There are two things that save “Knight of Cups” from being a complete waste of time. Antonio Banderas (“Desperado”) is admittedly ...

Ostensibly, “Knight of Cups” tells the story of Los Angeles screenwriter Rick (Christian Bale) as he navigates a flurry of women and processes the untimely death of his younger brother. Wes Bentley ...

“Knight of Cups” is Rick’s act of remembering, and it follows the strange double logic of memory—the triggering efforts of willful thought and the free-flowing associations of the ...

Christian Bale plays a hotshot screenwriter who’s lost his sense of self in “Knight of Cups.” “All those years, living the life of someone I didn’t know,” Rick says aloud to himself.

According to the press notes: “ ‘Knight of Cups’ follows writer Rick (Christian Bale) on an odyssey through the playgrounds of Los Angeles and Las Vegas as he undertakes a search for love ...

The “Knight of Cups” clip also comes with an official ... forgot about the pearl and fell into a deep sleep,” the description says. “Rick’s father used to read this story to him as ...

Terrence Malick’s best movies don’t unfold — they float, they shimmer, they waft, settling around the audience like a soft, indistinct fragrance. His “The Tree of Life,” five years ago ...