From Badlands to To the Wonder, this is the definitive ranking of Terrence Malick's narrative features according to how accessible they are.
Terrence Malick has a truly singular style as a filmmaker, with it being very hard to compare the sorts of movies he makes to any other auteur director's filmography out there. His films often emphasize emotions over things like plot or character arcs, and watching one can prove intoxicating and meditative to some, while feeling overlong and potentially too artsy for others.
8 'Knight of Cups' In some ways, Knight of Cups picks up where To the Wonder left off, delivering something comparable when it comes to its approach to exploring love and the human condition. There is a little more of a hook here, though, and it largely focuses on one character , whereas To the Wonder felt like it jumped between several at random intervals.
It's all based within the Austin music scene, giving it a more limited scope than some of Malick's most dreamily expansive works, but the chaotic editing and lack of narrative structure also make it feel obscure for large parts of its runtime. It can be a frustrating movie to try and get a grip on throughout, even if its relatively simple exploration of various relationships can at least be followed on a surface level.
Though it's still not the kind of film that was ever going to have mass appeal and become one of the highest-grossing titles of its year, it does represent the point where Terrence Malick's films start feeling easier to get a handle on. There are numerous instances where the film feels a little oblique or dreamy, but it still has a core set of characters it follows, and enough of a concrete narrative to make it relatively easy to digest.
But it's the presentation that makes it great, with it being one of the most hauntingly scored and visually impressive movies of the 1970s. The simple story comes across largely through images, with the dialogue that's not part of one character's internal monologue being fairly sparse. Despite that, it's still very straightforward and easy to follow, being the kind of movie where words aren't really needed at all to convey the complex emotions being felt by its characters.
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