Review: ‘Lincoln’ Deftly Tells Story of American Democracy

Friday, 09 November 2012 | by Pat's Picks

The New York Times movie critic A.O. Scott says “it is something of a paradox that American movies — a great democratic art form, if ever there was one — have not done a very good job of representing American democracy.” Until now, that is. He calls Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln,” which opens this weekend, “splendid.” And he has only nice things to say for the man who wears “the most famous and challenging beard of them all,” Daniel Day-Lewis. Scott says the actor “eases into a role of epic difficulty as if it were a coat he had been wearing for years.”

SOURCE: New York Times