Blog Terrence Malick’s Badlands: Infamy as Constructed Narrative LRR, March 30, 2026March 30, 2026 Written by: Aidan Srb I recently decided to revisit Badlands (1973), the first film in the career of legendary American filmmaker Terrence Malick. What at first appears to be Malick’s most straightforward film, at least in terms of narrative, turns out to be as strange and unwieldy as anything he’d make after, almost totally consumed by the wandering lyricism that would come to define his… Continue Reading