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Malick’s story couldn’t be timelier, nor lovelier, as his poetic aesthetics —defined by swirling, sweeping, intimate-and-epic handheld cinematography, James Newton Howard’s soaring orchestral score, and hushed internal-monologue narration—impart a way of the alternately harmonious and dissonant relationship between the material and the celestial.
Now, director Matthew Vaughn gets a …