[Flashback review] ‘John Adams,’ Second To None
“Giamatti’s performance is captivating, often poignantly so. . . . Tom Wilkinson has a romp playing Ben Franklin. . . . Stephen Dillane’s Thomas Jefferson is a quiet, introspective scholar.…
Lincoln Movie Illustrates The Blessings of Liberty
“Secured by immense power” by Adam J. White Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, portraying the president’s battle to abolish slavery at the end of the Civil War, illustrates one of the fundamental paradoxes…
How Accurately Did Spielberg Capture Lincoln’s Time?
“So in the end I am left not with concerns but with gratitude: To Spielberg for making this movie, and to my fellow moviegoers, for only when movies succeed will…