Synopsis
The revealing story of the 16th US 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 to come.
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Cast
- Daniel Day-LewisAbraham Lincoln
- Sally FieldMary Todd Lincoln
- David StrathairnWilliam Seward
- Joseph Gordon-LevittRobert Lincoln
- James SpaderW.N. Bilbo
- Hal HolbrookPreston Blair
- Tommy Lee JonesThaddeus Stevens
- John HawkesRobert Latham
- Jackie Earle HaleyAlexander Stephens
- Bruce McGillEdwin Stanton
Recommendations
- 100
Entertainment Weekly
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
Defiantly intellectual, complex and true to the shifting winds of real-world governance, Lincoln is not the movie that this election season has earned-but one that a more perfect union can aspire to. - 90
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Lincoln is too sharply focused to deserve the pejorative "biopic" label. It's splendid enough to make me wish Spielberg would make a "prequel" to this instead of another Indiana Jones picture. - 90
Village Voice
This Lincoln, stunningly portrayed by Spielberg and Day-Lewis, is real and relatable and so, so cool. - 88
Slant Magazine
Steven Spielberg's film may further the heroism so associated with its subject, and favor a liberal viewpoint that leers down at the Confederates, but it's no bleeding-heart glamorization. - 80
The Guardian
If only modern American politics were remotely as entertaining. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
Tony Kushner's densely packed script has been directed by Spielberg in an efficient, unpretentious way that suggests Michael Curtiz at Warner Bros. in the 1940s, right down to the rogue's gallery of great character actors in a multitude of bewhiskered supporting roles backing up a first-rate leading performance by Daniel Day-Lewis. - 80
Boxoffice Magazine
This is not really a biopic of the great President as the title might indicate, but rather a fascinating, savvy look at the inner-workings of the political process and how things in the White House get - or don't get - done.
