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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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