Film · 2012 · Historical drama

Lincoln

Directed by Steven Spielberg
2012
★ 6.0 editorial score

Day-Lewis found a high, reedy voice for Lincoln because the historical accounts describe one: Spielberg and Tony Kushner build a whole film out of counting votes for the Thirteenth Amendment.

“Abraham Lincoln's second term, with its momentous choices, has been brought to the screen by Steven Spielberg as a fascinatingly theatrical contest of rhetoric and strategy. It is a nest of high politics for the white ruling class, far from the brutality and chaos of the battlefield...Spielberg has made a moving and honourably high-minded film about this world-changing moment of American history, his best for many years”
— Peter Bradshaw · The Guardian

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