Lincoln

2012 • 149 minutes
4.3
3.08K reviews
90%
Tomatometer
PG-13
Rating
Eligible
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From DreamWorks Pictures and legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg comes an epic film that chronicles the untold story of the final four months of the man regarded as America's greatest President. Featuring an all star ensemble cast led by Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis in the title role, this movie explores Lincoln not just as the commander-in-chief of a country in chaos, but also as a man with moral courage and hope, a progressive thinker who challenged the status quo. Staring an all-star cast including Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones and James Spader.
Rating
PG-13

Ratings and reviews

4.3
3.08K reviews
Joseph Burke
June 9, 2016
This is the director that brought us Schindlers list. I expected atleast a little better. Grandpa Lincoln is cheesy, the movie is another very historically inaccurate Civil War all about slavory only movie, straw arguments which is disrepectful to those who died. In history Lincoln is not the patron saint of antislavery as hollywood depicts atleast if you actually do your homework. Also they literally emphasise liberal good guy and conservative bad guy. Also why is Frederick Douglass never in these movies.
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Phil Wise
March 31, 2013
It's historical as far as you have historic figures. That's about it. I had to fight from falling asleep through long rambling dialog. Shows how the bar of entertainment has dropped. This was just an overhyped movie that has way too many people saying it was good then everyone else follows like lemmings (see ID4)
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Jacob Tellone
June 23, 2017
Inaccurate lincoln hated black people and wanted to exile them from the country. The war was never about freedom it was a dispute of social maltreatment and oppression of the souths economic growth. Contrary to common belief southern slave owners offered most of their slaves freedom from social and finacial oppression in return for fighting the north. The north at the time believed segregating the economy and social classes was effecient and would leave the country as a whole stronger under the belief united we stand stronger(it was effecient so they weren't wrong logically)
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