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Rating: 2/10 (25 January 2013)

From the first corny strings,you can tell this is a Spielberg film.Like the 60s TV serials he grew up on,there's no space for subtlety-everything's either Very Good or Very Bad. Sriding through the movie,hands behind his back and head bowed ,Lincoln tosses out over written profundities like confetti. This is not a portrait of a man but a Hollywood piece of folklore,as impenetrable as granite. Lewis may be in for an Oscar, but this is history reduced to a cornball. The sad truth is that Spielberg and his writer Tony Kushner are offering a phoney, sanitised version of Lincoln. Most modern evaluations of the republican president suggest he was not the liberal that present day democrats would have liked him to been.