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Richard Roeper writes: "One of the best movies of the year. This is a work of great passion and visual poetry, wit Colin Farrell in one of the best performances of his career and a 15-year-old actress making one of the most remarkable star debuts in recent years... She is the heart of Terrence Malick's beautiful masterpiece."

Just wondering if it's factual or offensive?

http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | "The New World," a film slated for Christmas day release, tells the romantic story of Pocahontas and John Smith, but ads for the movie tell a more depressing story of political correctness. A glossy magazine layout says that what settlers "named the Jamestown Settlement was already home to a noble civilization." On my radio show, I mocked the idea that the pre-literate, stone-aged Powhatan Indians of Virginia constituted a "noble civilization," and in later version of ads for the movie, the word "noble" disappeared. In its place, however, New Line Cinema included an even more absurd declaration, claiming...

When you're called a genius and avoid the press like Howard Hughes and direct only one movie every decade or so, it's an event when you crank out a new one. This time around, Terrence Malick, the media-shy maestro behind Badlands, Days of Heaven, and The Thin Red Line, trains his jeweler's eye on the love story between Native American Pocahontas (15-year-old newcomer Q'Orianka Kilcher) and English explorer John Smith (Colin Farrell) in 17th-century Jamestown, Va. Malick originally wrote a draft of the screenplay in the late '70s, but much like his own Hollywood ambitions at the time, the project...