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 ...

Bale gives a haunted performance as a screenwriter named Rick, who represents the Knight of Cups, a romantic adventurer. With his fancy car, drunken pool parties and a tony yet sterile apartment ...

“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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

“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 ...