A movie that I should have liked a lot more, especially with such phenomenal individual components. The acting is great (but what do you expect with Daniel Day-Lewis). The screenplay adaptation is really good. The story itself is very interesting, focusing on the passage of the 13th Amendment which doesn't often get that much play in films about Lincoln. The directing is standard Spielberg, for better or worse (you kind of know what you'll get with Spielberg). But when you put these great elements together, it feels like something got lost, that the movie is less than the sum of its parts. It genuinely surprised me that I came away feeling like this. It's hard to say if the individual parts didn't quite mesh together well, or if they somehow interfered with each other, or if it was so played-up that it couldn't meet my expectations. These aren't exactly objective reviews but reflect my opinion. Recommended, but again, with reservations.