THE BEST SIDE OF TREE OF LIFE

Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life” is a film of wide ambition and deep humility, trying no lower than to encompass all of existence and view it through the prism of a few infinitesimal life. The only other film I’ve observed using this boldness of vision is Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey,” and it lacked Malick’s fierce evocation