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  Review by James (Schaffrillas) ★★

  Yo Jess, you gotta, uh, get the fucking best doctors in the city, tell em to get to the theatre RIGHT FUCKING NOW. And if he, uhh, doesn't fuckin pull through and we gotta get a funeral going, dust off my rap costume cause it's time for a fucking L to the OG reprise

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  Review by Jay ★★★ 22

  the truth is ive never seen anything with daniel day lewis nor seen him in real life and yall talk about him like hes a 80 year old veterern who somehow keeps coming back from the dead for an oscar and my first thoughts after seeing him at the globes? hes lowkey hot

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  Review by James (Schaffrillas) ★★ 8

  I've seen this movie three times. I have TRIED to like it.

  But goddammit this is one of the most boring films I've ever seen in my life. Daniel Day-Lewis and Tommy Lee Jones are the only things holding this movie together.

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  Review by DirkH ★★★★½ 20

  I am a bit of a history freak. I love films that aim to illuminate and portray a period in history as accurately as they can. Lincoln is a prime example of this and while I fully understand that this film can be experienced as an overlong dull affair, to me it is a historical drama that ticks practically all boxes.

  Let's get the obvious out of the way. Daniel Day Lewis's performance is stellar. The level of dedication he brings to his roles is awe-inspiring and here he does something extraordinary. He gives character and humanity to someone that only exists on paper. There is a certain collective awareness of what kind of man Lincoln was and Day Lewis…

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  Review by Will Menaker ★★★★½ 10

  Off the top of my head this movie has: Michael Stuhlbarg, Lee Pace, Walton Goggins, David Strathairn, Bruce McGill, Adam Driver, Jeremy Strong, David Costabile, James Spader, John Hawkes, Tim Blake Nelson, Jared Harris, Jackie Earle Haley, Peter McRobbie, the evil president from 24, Colman Domingo, Hal Holbrook, S, Epatha Merkerson...

  It's like watching every great TV character actor our lifetimes come together to abolish slavery. A moving and credible rendering of American history that is also an Obama-era fantasy of "progressive" government.

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  Review by tyler guy ★ 4

  take a shot every time you fall asleep

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  Review by CinemaVoid 🏴‍☠️ ★★★½ 7

  I think Lincoln could have worked better as a TV series so it could be shot in front of a live audience.

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  Review by Mike D'Angelo ★★½ 7

  49/100

  It's possible that I'm being too hard on this because it ends so very very badly—not just with the stupid epilogue (in which everyone watching Lincoln head out to Ford's Theater behaves as if they're already attending his funeral), but also with all the crowdpleasing hokiness that attends the House vote: Gale from Breaking Bad working a Big Dramatic Pause before finally deciding upon 'aye'; everyone from Mary Todd to Ulysses S. Grant jotting down notes like "8 votes to win" for our benefit; Thaddeus Stevens taking the Amendment home to share in bed with his black housekeeper (SHOCKING TWIST!), etc. Even prior to that nosedive, however, the film seemed to me too floridly theatrical, despite the best efforts…

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  Review by Jessica Wessica ★½ 7

  Boring Oscar-bait that I couldn't even see most of because the lighting was so bleak

  But the part where that one guy said "Among us" was pretty funny

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  Review by Nakul ★★★★

  Re-watched Lincoln recently, and it holds up wonderfully. A film made by professionals all clicking in near perfect sync with each other. Tony Kushner’s script is a thing of beauty, the dialogue is engrossing, full of humanity and humor. The way Spielberg moves the camera is so smooth you don't even notice how great it is, absolutely brilliant use of lighting and effective mise en scene. He makes stuff look easy that’s just not. Spielberg may be the last master of old-school film grammar we have left, and all of the classic goodness are on display.
  I'm actually surprised how many people here find it boring. For a movie that is mainly dialogue-driven for most of its runtime, it goes at a perfectly patient & poetic pace.
  Tho, I wish the movie ended with scene of Lincoln walking down hallway on way to theatre. The scenes after that felt so contrived.

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  Review by Will ★★★ 1

  Daniel Day-Lewis doesn’t play a character, he is the character.

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  Review by Matthew Christman ★★★★½

  There’s an easy critique to make of Lincoln. It’s the latest in a long line of popular retellings of the Civil War that puts white men at the center of the narrative, marginalizing the very people who fought and died for the recognition of their own humanity. It’s more pernicious endorsement of the Great Man theory of history and all its attendant, authoritarian implications. It’s an easy critique because it’s essentially correct. If someone condemns Lincoln because they are too distractingly annoyed by this, I completely understand, and there’s really no arguing with that reaction.

  But I think rejecting Lincoln for this reason is like hating Back to the Future because time travel is impossible. If you have any interest…