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By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 06 Nov 2014

If you succumb to The Better Angels, the effect is like falling into a gorgeous photograph, but that also means the narrative in this arthouse…

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By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 06 Nov 2014

As an impression of a Terrence Malick film, The Better Angels is technically faultless, unimprovable. All that’s missing is the soul…

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By Landon Palmer (30) for Film School Rejects (1,198) on 06 Nov 2014

it's hard to think of any other strong debut that leaves the personality of its filmmaker obscured as deeply in the shadows as this…

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By Travis Hopson (923) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 06 Nov 2014

The Better Angels seems to be less about our President's childhood, and more about paying homage to Malick…

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By Michael Rechtshaffen (1,086) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 06 Nov 2014

In the absence of a more conventional storytelling approach, this series of brief, fragmented glimpses of the harsh challenges that shaped…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for The New York Times (9,847) on 06 Nov 2014

The sense of predestination hangs heavily over the movie, but not a sense of life…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 05 Nov 2014

The Better Angels is a striking attempt to show us Lincoln's childhood in a fresh way, which is why its miscalculation is all the more disappointing…

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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for New York Post (6,650) on 05 Nov 2014

Rendering the life of young Abraham Lincoln as a tone poem, The Better Angels sags under the weight of its own resolute earnestness…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 05 Nov 2014

Though quiet and slow, the film flows like a brook…

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By Mallory Andrews (58) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 05 Nov 2014

the heavy specter of [Terrence] Malick (listed in the credits as a producer) looms large over the proceedings…

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By James Rocchi (1,075) for TheWrap (3,203) on 05 Nov 2014

Mr…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 04 Nov 2014

The main flaw — twirling farm girls and grunting oxen aside — is an utter lack of insight into the future leader’s character…

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By Abby Garnett (48) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Nov 2014

Kruger and Clarke do their best to look steadfast with a camera swooping around them like a wounded bird, but there's no rescuing this imprecise…

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By Guy Lodge (731) for HitFix (861) on 03 Nov 2014

A lushly conceived, exhaustively realized debut feature that'd be pretty formidable stuff coming from a more practised filmmaker -- and derided…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 03 Nov 2014

The film succeeds in that it provides a more vivid sense of this sort of 19th century childhood -- and Lincoln’s youth in particular -- than…

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By Noel Murray (1,901) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 03 Nov 2014

Do the undeniably Malick-derived qualities of The Better Angels work against it, or is the film all the more special for being, essentially,…

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By James Lattimer (30) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Oct 2014

Even taking into consideration the fact the A.J…

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By Stefan Pape (613) for HeyUGuys (1,461) on 17 Feb 2014

Such comparisons to the work of Malick, who himself was a producer on this feature, are ultimately the film's very undoing…

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By Sam Fragoso (108) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 31 Jan 2014

The Better Angels eschews any sort of narrative linearity (and occasionally, coherency) without entirely alienating its audience…

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