Lincoln Reviews

While Lincoln is high-minded and classy, it plays like a dry history lesson, despite a typically immaculate turn from Daniel Day-Lewis. In short, we have the definitive performance of Abraham Lincoln, but not the definitive movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

Spielberg's plodding camera endlessly tracks and circles Day-Lewis in complete reverence, while veteran composer John Williams delivers yet another repetitive Jurassic Extra-Terrestrial score.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10

One never feels alive or inspired watching this history, merely intrigued, as if watching a film made for a museum exhibit.

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This is handsome-looking history, but Spielberg's worshipful treatment slows down its pulse.

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A shamelessly hagiographic chronicling of the final months of the Great Emancipator's life.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Even if the movie is no classic, Day-Lewis' performance belongs to the ages.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Long, cheesy political monologues and crucifies the Lincoln legacy. What a torture! Director Steven Spielberg and screenwriter Tony Kushner turn the hallowed figure of Abraham Lincoln into a dreary sop.

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This is a surprisingly bad movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.25/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

I expect spectacular things from Spielberg, so when he delivers something that's just average, it's a bit of a letdown.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

An airless, directionless lump of a movie that somehow makes dependably committed work from star Daniel Day-Lewis feel like an audition tape for the "Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln" audio-animatronic gig at Disneyland.

Full Review | Original Score: C

[VIDEO ESSAY] Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" is a mess.

Full Review | Original Score: C

Não é um retrato multidimensional de um indivíduo complexo, mas uma fábula. Um letreiro de "Era uma vez..." em seu início não ficaria deslocado.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

For a man so funny, so vital, so literally larger than life, "Lincoln" remains a Daguerreotype - careful, quiet and dully framed.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Spielberg is legendary for his visual feasts, yet he serves us this turkey with no relish. There's scarcely a memorable image in the entire film.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Plays like a two-hour speech, a solemn slog to a foregone conclusion, a dreary march to the inevitable.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

...historically laughable, it's so boring it makes one yearn to watch grass grow.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/10

Watching the film, which is so emotionally frigid it could chill a person clear to the bone, it is impossible to even entertain the vision of a filmmaker such as Steven Spielberg being behind the camera.

Full Review | Original Score: .5/4

For all its good intentions and spurts of innovation, it never really comes alive as living, breathing history. Instead, it too often plays like an audio reading of the Congressional Record, with some unwieldy domestic scenes tossed in for good measure.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.0/4.0