'The Tree of Life' insisterer på at blive set på sine egne vilkår. Nægter man dét, nægter man sig selv den dybeste oplevelse.

...is a film of vast ambition and deep humility, attempting no less than to encompass all of existence and view it through the prism of a few infinitesimal lives.

There is simply nothing like it out there: profound, idiosyncratic, complex, sincere and magical; a confirmation that cinema can aspire to art.

...it’s a genuine attempt to grasp the transcendent, and the rare religious film that deserves to be called spiritual.

...filmens kärna: Osjälviskhet, sann altruism.