The hallmark of the man, performed so powerfully by Daniel Day-Lewis in "Lincoln," is calm self-confidence, patience and a willingness to play politics in a realistic way. The film focuses on the final months of Lincoln's life, including the passage of the 13th Amendment ending slavery, the surrender of the Confederacy and his assassination.
'Lincoln,' by Steven Spielberg, Stars Daniel Day-Lewis
Directed by Steven Spielberg. Biography, Drama, History, War. PG-13. 2h 30m. By A.O. Scott. Nov. 8, 2012. It is something of a paradox that American movies — a great democratic art form, if ever ...
Lincoln (2012)
Lincoln: Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. As the Civil War rages on, U.S President Abraham Lincoln struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on his decision to emancipate the slaves.
Lincoln
Sara Michelle Fetters MovieFreak.com Lincoln is a triumph. Rated: 4/4 Aug 8, 2022 Full Review Deborah Ross The Spectator Its narrative swoop largely takes the legislative detail in its stride ...
Lincoln (2012)
Lincoln (2012) A highly polished, restrained, important movie. That doesn't make this an exciting movie. The acting is terrific, and filming excellent (including a color saturation pulled back to give it an old look without seeming affected).
'Lincoln' Review: 2012 Movie
The wall-to-wall talk and lack of much Civil War action might give off the aroma of schoolroom medicine to some, but the elemental drama being played out, bolstered by the prestige of the ...
Lincoln
This Lincoln is a lover of theater and avid raconteur who easily quotes from Shakespeare and scripture, a man who problem-solves via storytelling — an impression that naturally flatters those in ...
Review: 'Lincoln' brilliantly dramatizes delicacy of politics
The Lincoln we see here is that rare movie creature, a heroic thinker. He has the serpentine intellect of a master lawyer, infused with a poet's passion. "Lincoln" brilliantly dramatizes the ...
Lincoln: "It's true because it works"
At the heart of Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" is a quiet scene between President Abraham Lincoln (Daniel Day-Lewis) and two young men, Samuel Beckwith (Adam Driver) and David Homer Bates (Drew Sease), in an otherwise empty telegraph cipher office. Lincoln has to make a crucial decision: Does he consider a peace proposal from a Confederate delegation on its way to Washington, and thus perhaps ...
Our Favorite Roger Reviews: Lincoln
"LINCOLN" review by Roger Ebert. originally published on November 7th, 2012. I've rarely been more aware than during Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" that Abraham Lincoln was a plain-spoken, practical, down-to-earth man from the farmlands of Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois.He had less than a year of formal education and taught himself through his hungry reading of great books.
Lincoln (2012)
45 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com. 100. Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman. The movie is grand and immersive. It plugs us into the final months of Lincoln's presidency with a purity that makes us feel transported as though by time machine. 100. Time Out Joshua Rothkopf. Defiantly intellectual, complex and true to the shifting winds of ...
Lincoln Movie Review
Lincoln is shown to be a thoughtful, intelligent, Violence & Scariness. Scenes of the Civil War are mostly shown in passin. Sex, Romance & Nudity Not present. Mary and Abraham Lincoln embrace. Language. As would have been accurate for the era, the words. Products & Purchases Not present. Drinking, Drugs & Smoking.
We Ask A Historian: Just How Accurate Is 'Lincoln'?
Lincoln biographer Ronald White lauds the accuracy of Daniel Day-Lewis' depiction of the 16th president. A great many families going to the movies over this Thanksgiving weekend will probably see ...
Lincoln (film)
Lincoln is a 2012 American biographical historical drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as United States President Abraham Lincoln. It features Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, and Tommy Lee Jones in supporting roles. The screenplay by Tony Kushner was loosely based on Doris Kearns Goodwin's 2005 ...
Movie Review
Genre: Drama. Running time: 159 minutes. Rated PG-13 for an intense scene of war violence, some images of carnage and brief strong language. With: Daniel Day Lewis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tommy Lee ...
Lincoln
Lincoln is 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 ...
Movie Review: Lincoln (2012)
Lincoln is a masterpiece of filmmaking and is an unforgettable film to watch in a theater. It will be nominated for an array of Oscars with wins most likely for Day-Lewis and Spielberg. Daniel Day-Lewis may be the most gifted actor currently working when his chooses to take on a role, which only happens every other year or so (everybody still ...
Lincoln: Daniel Day-Lewis' Performance Is Astonishing
Lincoln feels like a movie Steven Spielberg has always been fated to make. Of course these two figures were bound to collide at some point: the most mythic of American presidents and the most myth ...
Lincoln
Movie Review. Here there be dragons. So wrote the old cartographers on their parchment maps, sketching fantastical beasts with fins and fangs. ... Indeed, the film makes a point of stressing Lincoln's almost boundless patience—enduring the petty requests of constituents with a kindly smile, chuckling off his cabinet's combustibility ...
Spielberg's Lincoln: A Historian's Review
As Steven Spielberg's Lincoln draws crowds to theaters, a UT history graduate student reviews the film through a historian's lens. His verdict: While flawed, Lincoln is a solid, mostly accurate portrait of a complex man. Steven Spielberg's latest historical drama chronicles the 16th president's final months and his struggle for passage of the 13th Amendment […]
Lincoln
Full Review| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 14, 2020. Yasser Medina Cinefilia. 'Lincoln' is not only an avid biopic, it is a pleasant historical lesson that captures the thinking of an era where ...
Lincoln movie review
The Steven Spielberg directed movie "Lincoln" follows the iconic 16th president of the United States of America as he works to abolish slavery in the U.S. by...
Lincoln (2012)
Synopsis. The opening scene is a brutal, muddy melee. At close quarters in that wet place, the men on whom the camera closes in are attacking one another with bayonets, swords, fists, or even by holding an enemy's face in the mud to drown him. Many of the combatants are black.
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Sunday, June 2, 2024. Online Ticketing. 2249.7 mi. Film at Lincoln Center - Walter Reade Theater. 165 W 65th St, New York, NY 10023 (212) 875 5205.
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Movie Review: Daisy Ridley shines in inspirational swimming pic ...
In August 1926, a 19-year-old New Yorker named Trudy Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel. Only five men had finished the 21-mile trek from Cape Gris-Nez in France to Kingsdown…
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The hallmark of the man, performed so powerfully by Daniel Day-Lewis in "Lincoln," is calm self-confidence, patience and a willingness to play politics in a realistic way. The film focuses on the final months of Lincoln's life, including the passage of the 13th Amendment ending slavery, the surrender of the Confederacy and his assassination.
Directed by Steven Spielberg. Biography, Drama, History, War. PG-13. 2h 30m. By A.O. Scott. Nov. 8, 2012. It is something of a paradox that American movies — a great democratic art form, if ever ...
Lincoln: Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. As the Civil War rages on, U.S President Abraham Lincoln struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on his decision to emancipate the slaves.
Sara Michelle Fetters MovieFreak.com Lincoln is a triumph. Rated: 4/4 Aug 8, 2022 Full Review Deborah Ross The Spectator Its narrative swoop largely takes the legislative detail in its stride ...
Lincoln (2012) A highly polished, restrained, important movie. That doesn't make this an exciting movie. The acting is terrific, and filming excellent (including a color saturation pulled back to give it an old look without seeming affected).
The wall-to-wall talk and lack of much Civil War action might give off the aroma of schoolroom medicine to some, but the elemental drama being played out, bolstered by the prestige of the ...
This Lincoln is a lover of theater and avid raconteur who easily quotes from Shakespeare and scripture, a man who problem-solves via storytelling — an impression that naturally flatters those in ...
The Lincoln we see here is that rare movie creature, a heroic thinker. He has the serpentine intellect of a master lawyer, infused with a poet's passion. "Lincoln" brilliantly dramatizes the ...
At the heart of Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" is a quiet scene between President Abraham Lincoln (Daniel Day-Lewis) and two young men, Samuel Beckwith (Adam Driver) and David Homer Bates (Drew Sease), in an otherwise empty telegraph cipher office. Lincoln has to make a crucial decision: Does he consider a peace proposal from a Confederate delegation on its way to Washington, and thus perhaps ...
"LINCOLN" review by Roger Ebert. originally published on November 7th, 2012. I've rarely been more aware than during Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" that Abraham Lincoln was a plain-spoken, practical, down-to-earth man from the farmlands of Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois.He had less than a year of formal education and taught himself through his hungry reading of great books.
45 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com. 100. Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman. The movie is grand and immersive. It plugs us into the final months of Lincoln's presidency with a purity that makes us feel transported as though by time machine. 100. Time Out Joshua Rothkopf. Defiantly intellectual, complex and true to the shifting winds of ...
Lincoln is shown to be a thoughtful, intelligent, Violence & Scariness. Scenes of the Civil War are mostly shown in passin. Sex, Romance & Nudity Not present. Mary and Abraham Lincoln embrace. Language. As would have been accurate for the era, the words. Products & Purchases Not present. Drinking, Drugs & Smoking.
Lincoln biographer Ronald White lauds the accuracy of Daniel Day-Lewis' depiction of the 16th president. A great many families going to the movies over this Thanksgiving weekend will probably see ...
Lincoln is a 2012 American biographical historical drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as United States President Abraham Lincoln. It features Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, and Tommy Lee Jones in supporting roles. The screenplay by Tony Kushner was loosely based on Doris Kearns Goodwin's 2005 ...
Genre: Drama. Running time: 159 minutes. Rated PG-13 for an intense scene of war violence, some images of carnage and brief strong language. With: Daniel Day Lewis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tommy Lee ...
Lincoln is 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 ...
Lincoln is a masterpiece of filmmaking and is an unforgettable film to watch in a theater. It will be nominated for an array of Oscars with wins most likely for Day-Lewis and Spielberg. Daniel Day-Lewis may be the most gifted actor currently working when his chooses to take on a role, which only happens every other year or so (everybody still ...
Lincoln feels like a movie Steven Spielberg has always been fated to make. Of course these two figures were bound to collide at some point: the most mythic of American presidents and the most myth ...
Movie Review. Here there be dragons. So wrote the old cartographers on their parchment maps, sketching fantastical beasts with fins and fangs. ... Indeed, the film makes a point of stressing Lincoln's almost boundless patience—enduring the petty requests of constituents with a kindly smile, chuckling off his cabinet's combustibility ...
As Steven Spielberg's Lincoln draws crowds to theaters, a UT history graduate student reviews the film through a historian's lens. His verdict: While flawed, Lincoln is a solid, mostly accurate portrait of a complex man. Steven Spielberg's latest historical drama chronicles the 16th president's final months and his struggle for passage of the 13th Amendment […]
Full Review| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 14, 2020. Yasser Medina Cinefilia. 'Lincoln' is not only an avid biopic, it is a pleasant historical lesson that captures the thinking of an era where ...
The Steven Spielberg directed movie "Lincoln" follows the iconic 16th president of the United States of America as he works to abolish slavery in the U.S. by...
Synopsis. The opening scene is a brutal, muddy melee. At close quarters in that wet place, the men on whom the camera closes in are attacking one another with bayonets, swords, fists, or even by holding an enemy's face in the mud to drown him. Many of the combatants are black.
Sunday, June 2, 2024. Online Ticketing. 2249.7 mi. Film at Lincoln Center - Walter Reade Theater. 165 W 65th St, New York, NY 10023 (212) 875 5205.
For the film's wondrous rebel Trudy Ederle (a graceful, commanding Daisy Ridley), who became the first woman to swim across the treacherous 21-mile English Channel in 1926, that big dream at ...
In August 1926, a 19-year-old New Yorker named Trudy Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel. Only five men had finished the 21-mile trek from Cape Gris-Nez in France to Kingsdown…