You wait years for a film about an American President, then two come along at once.
You wait years for a film about an American President, then two come along at once.
Daniel Day Lewis as Lincoln
If you’re short of time or cash, though, I recommend you give one of the biopics a body-swerve, and I ain’t talking about Lincoln.
Spielberg’s epic feature about Honest Abe’s final months in office and the behind-the-scenes politics behind the 13th Amendment to abolish slavery may be talk-heavy and verging on hagiography, but it’s literate and doesn’t presume its audience has the attention span of a gnat.
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Just Janice: why the biopic trend is enough to make you go psycho
You wait years for a film about an American President, then two come along at once.
If you’re short of time or cash, though, I recommend you give one of the biopics a body-swerve, and I ain’t talking about Lincoln.
Spielberg’s epic feature about Honest Abe’s final months in office and the behind-the-scenes politics behind the 13th Amendment to abolish slavery may be talk-heavy and verging on hagiography, but it’s literate and doesn’t presume its audience has the attention span of a gnat.
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