The Better Angels

A.J. Edwards is an acolyte of Terrence Malick, and I ended up getting my hands on this movie because of the Malick connection since he acts as producer on the film. I really didn’t expect that I’d be getting what is essentially another Malick film from it. The voiceover, the capture moments, repeated motifs, and the wide-angle lenses all feel like Malick made the film himself. The little that’s written about the film, since it was barely released and mostly forgotten, tends to call the movie...