WhatsUpWill
8Nov11
That was beautiful. :')
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Chris Jones
31Mar12
I love what a smarmy prick Lincoln turns into when he enters the courtroom. He's all gawky and humble when he's in town and then the minute he has a case to win he just starts going upside people's heads.
Aaron Garrett
30Jan12
Straddling the edge between cornball and humane genius brilliantly. Amazing subtlety in the visual compositions, the acting, and in the wonderfully reserved emotions. Henry Fonda's legs deserve their own billing.
Jack Lehtonen
20Oct11
The seeds of idealism. Yet another sterling display of Ford's poetry. Ford's greatest film's are never easy. A shallow interpretation would tell you that it's jingoistic patriotism, when really the depths of melancholy paint a far greater picture. No director had a better sense of what America was and is. If not the history as it happens, then it is the history how it's felt. This is the American soul.
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Sean Keeley
30Aug11
An exquisite masterpiece and one of John Ford's very best. It's not a case of sentimental mythologizing; it's a subtle character study of a man discovering his own talents and being drawn into his future. Fonda captures the complexity and contradictions of Lincoln - his simultaneous melancholy and humor, his populist idealism and savvy political maneuvering, his connection and aloofness.
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Zachary George Najarian-Najafi
23Sep10
It may be historically inaccurate, but the pure poetry of John Ford's direction trumps this fact, so it doesn't matter. Young Mr. Lincoln is a beautiful film. Henry Fonda is amazing as always, but the film really is an overall display of powerhouse performances. The imagery is stunning as well. Maybe it's jingoistic, or maybe we've all grown too cynical. This film is about the things that work in the American system.
Michael Gildea
5Aug10
Young Mr. Lincoln is one of those movies that prove to me that my life before seeing it was almost a complete and total waste. Henry Fonda and John Ford do it yet again as I never thought I'd say that Abraham Lincoln is awesome.
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Roscoe
2Aug10
Gorgeously made, but terribly artificial. Fonda's ridiculous performance makes me wish John Wilkes Booth had been around 40 years early.
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chanandre
2Nov09
probably one of the strongest contenders to ALL-TIME BEST FILM, alongside with f.w.murnau's SUNRISE
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Pulpwino
28Oct09
Definitely a product of its generation, this rather romantic and sanitized view of Lincoln is certainly made well by a master of filmaking. The cinematography is also fabulous, and enhanced the mood and drama in many of the scenes; it also helped Henry look a little more like ol' Abe, too. Of Fonda, his performace was fine, of course, because he was the type of actor who could depict just about anyone.
Franklinton Underground Cinema
30May09
Wasn't necessarily a great Ford film, but was certainly another outstanding performance from Henry Fonda.