Review: A wayward screenwriter in Malick's 'Knight of Cups'

After making lyrical, rapturous films set in the Pacific theater of World War II ("The Thin Red Line") and Jamestown ("The New World"), Terrence Malick has steadily moved closer to present day and his own stories, too. In a trilogy of films, he's sought to use all the sensory and symphonic powers of cinema to illuminate personal pasts - his Texas childhood, an ill-fated romance in Paris, hedonistic success in Hollywood - like shimmering kaleidoscopes of memory. Proust would have really dug it.