Lincoln Reviews
Triple J
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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Groucho Reviews
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]
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Movie Metropolis
Spielberg's 'Lincoln' gives us the fullest portrait of the man on the five dollar bill that Hollywood has produced.
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| Original Score: 8/10
Movies With Butter
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.
Concrete Playground
A spellbinding performance and a beautifully nuanced film about statesmanship, quiet contemplation and - above all else - principle.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
The Standard
Once you settle in, this is an educational and enlightening epic. Yes, it can be ponderous, but for the most part, Lincoln is entertaining.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Cinema Crazed
A powerful and brilliant look at the most important moment in US history...
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| Original Score: 3/4
The Mercury
A remarkable performance by Daniel Day-Lewis is the glue that holds Lincoln together. Without him, this would be a very unremarkable film.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Screen-Space
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.
Cinema Autopsy
For the most part Lincoln is not a significant inclusion into Spielberg's filmography despite the noblest of intentions and undeniable cinematic craftsmanship.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Quickflix
A focused, remarkably human production, anchored by Day-Lewis' understated performance as the softly spoken, long winded, devilishly funny Abraham
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
ABC Radio Brisbane
Those interested in the subject matter should find it informative, eye-opening and rewarding.
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| Original Score: A-
FILMINK (Australia)
Lincoln is a far more reckless, entertaining, unusual, but ultimately horribly uneven film than its pedigree may suggest.
The Sunday Age
This is easily Spielberg's best picture since Schindler's List. Having a two-term black president now in the White House can't hurt its chances, either.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Urban Cinefile
A literally and metaphorically towering performance by Daniel Day Lewis as the 1.93cm Abraham Lincoln drives this historically riveting and personally impassioned ... riveting ... film
Urban Cinefile
It is Daniel Day-Lewis' indelible portrait of the President, visionary, raconteur, husband and family man that stands at the forefront, as he resolutely realises his goal to abolish slavery
Clothes on Film
The biggest compliment we can pay Joanna Johnston's costumes in Lincoln is that you hardly notice them. This is a far subtler film than you might expect.
The Popcorn Junkie
It may indulge its subject a little too much but it highlights the road to a momentous occasion with an intimacy that gives emotional weight to political machinations
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| Original Score: 4/5
Movie Talk
The actual vote on the Amendment proves surprisingly gripping, but elsewhere moments of piety and sentimentality undermine Day-Lewis's magnificent, credibly flesh-and-blood Lincoln.
Scotsman
It's an impeccably crafted history lesson that, unusually for a Spielberg film, tells us why its subject matter is important, instead of engaging with it on an emotional level.
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| Original Score: 3/5
