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Lincoln

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Synopsis

As the American Civil War continues to rage, America's president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves.

Cast

  • Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Sally Field
  • David Strathairn
  • Joseph Gordon-Levitt
  • James Spader
  • Hal Holbrook
  • Tommy Lee Jones
  • John Hawkes
  • Jackie Earle Haley
  • Bruce McGill

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Metacritic

75
Nov 7, 2012

Lincoln is built around a magnetic Day-Lewis turn, and the film is a memorable, sometimes stirring look at how even the most righteous bill must struggle, and even cheat, to become a law. It demands a bigger stage than the one it's given here.

Metacritic review by Keith Phipps
Keith Phipps
The A.V. Club
100
Nov 6, 2012

Defiantly intellectual, complex and true to the shifting winds of real-world governance, Lincoln is not the movie that this election season has earned-but one that a more perfect union can aspire to.

Joshua Rothkopf
Time Out
90
Nov 5, 2012

Lincoln is too sharply focused to deserve the pejorative biopic label. It's splendid enough to make me wish Spielberg would make a prequel to this instead of another Indiana Jones picture.

Metacritic review by David Edelstein
David Edelstein
New York Magazine (Vulture)