Above all one of the most beautiful films ever made. Malick's purpose is not to tell a story of melodrama, but one of loss. His tone is elegiac. He evokes the loneliness and beauty of the limitless Texas prairie. [7 Dec. 1997]
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TV Guide Magazine
Director Malick endows this simple, timeless story with the enormous scope and resonance of myth through a clear vision unclouded by sentimentality and by a deft juxtaposition of image, music, and character.
100
Variety
A dramatically moving and technically breathtaking American art film, one of the great cinematic achievements of the 1970s.
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Michael AtkinsonVillage Voice
It seems almost incontestably...the most gorgeously photographed film ever made. [23 March 1999]
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Michael WilmingtonChicago Tribune
Days of Heaven is the grand climax of the whole "Bonnie and Clyde"-"Badlands" tradition of outlaw-lovers-on-the-run movies. Shot by Nestor Almendros and the uncredited Haskell Wexler, it's a cinematographic masterpiece. [20 March 1998]
