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Lincoln (2012)

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89

Average Rating: 8/10
Reviews Counted: 247
Fresh: 221 | Rotten: 26

Daniel Day-Lewis characteristically delivers in this witty, dignified portrait that immerses the audience in its world and entertains even as it informs.

94

Average Rating: 8.6/10
Critic Reviews: 48
Fresh: 45 | Rotten: 3

Daniel Day-Lewis characteristically delivers in this witty, dignified portrait that immerses the audience in its world and entertains even as it informs.

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Steven Spielberg directs Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln, a revealing drama that focuses on the 16th President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come. -- (C) Walt Disney

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Mar 26, 2013

$182.2M

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Critic Reviews for Lincoln

All Critics (247) | Top Critics (48) | Fresh (221) | Rotten (26) | DVD (4)

It's very good, but that's not the point. It's necessary.

June 14, 2013 Full Review Source: The New Republic
David Thomson
The New Republic
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'Lincoln' works as a snapshot of a great man without ever slipping into a portrait of sainthood.

January 22, 2013 Full Review Source: Time Out
Dave Calhoun
Time Out
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This is movie magic -- history coming to life, before our eyes.

January 8, 2013 Full Review Source: Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Seattle Times
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It's the most remarkable movie Steven Spielberg has made in quite a spell, and one of the things that makes it remarkable is how it fulfills those expectations by simultaneously ignoring and transcending them.

November 19, 2012 Full Review Source: MSN Movies
Glenn Kenny
MSN Movies
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Lincoln paints a powerful and compelling portrait of the man who has become an icon. We don't need to see more of his life to understand how rare a figure he was - this window is more than sufficient.

November 18, 2012 Full Review Source: ReelViews
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
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Lincoln offers proof of what magic can happen when an actor falls in love with his character. Because as great as Day-Lewis has been in his many parts, he has never seemed quite so smitten.

November 16, 2012 Full Review Source: Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
Denver Post
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This is a wonderful film, full of detail and behavior, and one that lifts broadened historical details into a poetic marriage of humanity and triumph.

August 6, 2013 Full Review Source: Cinemaphile.org
David Keyes
Cinemaphile.org

When it focuses on the political, social, and historical side of things - which is 80% of the film - it's grand, populist, high-minded entertainment.

July 27, 2013 Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

It makes you think we can still do great things.

June 23, 2013 Full Review Source: Deadspin
Will Leitch
Deadspin

Spielberg and Kushner lend the House scenes so much vigor that "Lincoln" comes fully alive for about half an hour. Then Spielberg tacks on three addenda, and thus dissipates the good will that has developed on both sides of the movie-theater aisle.

May 28, 2013 Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee
Carla Meyer
Sacramento Bee

Spielberg's 'Lincoln' burns itself into your memory like no other film about American politics.

May 13, 2013 Full Review Source: The Patriot Ledger
Al Alexander
The Patriot Ledger

A bit like watching the West Wing played by Amish People. Desperately needed 40 minutes cut out of what is essentially quite a beautifully made movie.

April 8, 2013 Full Review Source: Triple J
Marc Fennell
Triple J

Day-Lewis...wears well the weariness of the office and Lincoln's puckish yet subdued sense of humor, scaling the man closer to life-size than Mount Rushmore monumental. [Blu-ray]

April 2, 2013 Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews
Peter Canavese
Groucho Reviews

Spielberg's 'Lincoln' gives us the fullest portrait of the man on the five dollar bill that Hollywood has produced.

March 24, 2013 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis
James Plath
Movie Metropolis

Pushing this film as merely 'Lincoln' is something of an injustice to the man himself, as if audiences wouldn't have any interest in the actual story of the film.

March 23, 2013 Full Review Source: MovieCrypt.com
Kevin A. Ranson
MovieCrypt.com

Somewhere in there, Lincoln will call upon [his administration's] faculties and better sense, and the film about him will ask something similar of us.

March 18, 2013 Full Review Source: Movies With Butter
Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
Movies With Butter

A spellbinding performance and a beautifully nuanced film about statesmanship, quiet contemplation and - above all else - principle.

March 3, 2013 Full Review Source: Concrete Playground
Tom Glasson
Concrete Playground

Once you settle in, this is an educational and enlightening epic. Yes, it can be ponderous, but for the most part, Lincoln is entertaining.

February 28, 2013 Full Review Source: The Standard
Matt Neal
The Standard Source: The Standard

A powerful and brilliant look at the most important moment in US history...

February 23, 2013 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

Oddly, Spielberg chooses to set his gabby epic largely indoors...This gives Lincoln a rather inert feel...It's infuriating that spectacular battle scenes are described in the film, but not shown.

February 15, 2013 Full Review Source: 3AW
Jim Schembri
3AW

A remarkable performance by Daniel Day-Lewis is the glue that holds Lincoln together. Without him, this would be a very unremarkable film.

February 11, 2013 Full Review Source: The Mercury
Tim Martain
The Mercury

Spielberg's guarded representation of Honest Abe highlights some problems with the biopic format, especially in terms of veracity, and especially in terms of how we can (or can't) measure accuracy as the years roll by.

February 7, 2013 Full Review Source: Crikey
Luke Buckmaster
Crikey Source: Crikey

Every ounce of time-honoured respect a nation has seen fit to bestow upon The Great Emancipator is addressed frame by frame in Steven Spielberg's stately masterwork, Lincoln.

February 7, 2013 Full Review Source: Screen-Space
Simon Foster
Screen-Space

For the most part Lincoln is not a significant inclusion into Spielberg's filmography despite the noblest of intentions and undeniable cinematic craftsmanship.

February 6, 2013 Full Review Source: Cinema Autopsy
Thomas Caldwell
Cinema Autopsy

A focused, remarkably human production, anchored by Day-Lewis' understated performance as the softly spoken, long winded, devilishly funny Abraham

February 5, 2013 Full Review Source: Quickflix
Simon Miraudo
Quickflix
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Audience Reviews for Lincoln

Being English and therefore having a British education, I know very little about Lincoln other than he freed the slaves, wore a top hat and got shot in a theatre. So, I was happy for the education this film bought. However, after reading up about Lincoln (I always read up about the film I've just watched) I found there to be loads of mistakes throughout. Sometimes these mistakes don't matter but when they are on purpose in order to make the story more entertaining, I don't respect them. For instance, Lincoln's son seen crying at the news of his death had himself died a few years beforehand, Spielberg would rather pull at our heartstrings and watch a boy cry, rather than show us what really happened. Fact or fiction though, it was still an education and the performances were brilliant. I enjoyed it and actually to be fair, it was fairly light on the schmaltz.
August 15, 2013
SirPant
Anthony Lawrie

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I guess the hype sucked me in to expecting more.
January 4, 2013
Tomassgringo
Thomas Johnston

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Lincoln Quotes

    1. Abraham Lincoln: The fate of human decency is in our hands!
    – Submitted by Alexandria P (5 months ago)
    1. Thaddeus Stevens: Trust? Gentlemen, you seem to have forgotten that our chosen career is politics.
    – Submitted by Ahmed A (5 months ago)
    1. Thaddeus Stevens: Trust? Gentlemen, you seem to have forgotten that our chosen career is politics.
    – Submitted by Caesar M (6 months ago)
    1. Abraham Lincoln: Euclid's first common notion is this: "Things which are equal to the same thing are equal to each other."
    – Submitted by Mahesh W (7 months ago)
    1. Abraham Lincoln: You're an engineer. You must know Euclid's axioms and common notions. I never had much of schooling but I read Euclid in an old book I borrowed. Little ever found in its way in here, but once learnt it stayed learnt.
    – Submitted by Mahesh W (7 months ago)
    1. Edwin Stanton: A compass, I learnt when I was surveying, it'll... it'll point you True North from where you're standing, but it's got no advice about the swamps and deserts and chasms that you'll encounter along the way. If in pursuit of your destination, you plunge ahead, heedless of obstacles, and achieve nothing more than to sink in a swamp... What's the use of knowing True North?
    – Submitted by M'hamed D (8 months ago)
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