Taking the director’s elusive, elliptical style perhaps as far as it will go, “The Tree of Life” is nothing ... not least because Stanley Kubrick’s special-effects creator Douglas Trumbull ...

Dark of the Moon,’ ‘The Tree of Life’ and ‘X-Men: First Class.’ The entire membership of the visual effects branch of the academy will be able to see 10-minute excerpts from the films on ...

Without question, though, Tree of Life is already being recognized as ... The film’s financiers and producers, its special effects supervisors, and actors invariably and unhesitatingly describe ...

With help from special effects master Douglas Trumbull and cinematographer ... This passage in The Tree of Life is like that. It's as if, to understand the death of a young man, we need to ...

Is Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life a pretentious mess or a ... the Hubble telescope and Hollywood special effects: God did all this; who are we to think we can judge or question him?