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November 07, 2012 Arts & Events » Movies

Movie Review: "Lincoln" 

Spielberg’s biopic looks behind the monument for the extraordinary person.

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The beginning of Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" is inspired, with Lincoln (Daniel Day-Lewis), after a brief battlefield prelude, in the presidential bedroom with his wife, Mary Todd (Sally Field), quoting "Hamlet." We get the impression throughout the film that the 16th president…

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