Rating: 2/4 -- "God tells truths in parables," someone says - a line that Edwards most likely aspires to take possession of, as if his poetic, pictorial parable had its own truths to tell. Full Review

Rating: C- -- It feels more like a poem. Or, at times, a symphony. But it's much less effective as an actual movie. Full Review

A portrait of a president as a young man. Full Review

Rating: A- -- The Better Angels makes for a sublime, transfixing, and informative look at the early life of Abraham Lincoln. Full Review

Rating: 2.5/4 -- Narrators tell us what to feel, but there's something hollow at the center. The tone of the picture seems perversely oblique.

Rating: 3.5/5 -- Kudos to this young director for making quite a good film -- even if the guiding hand of Malick is present in every shot. Full Review

Rating: 2/4 -- Had Terrence Malick taken a shot at making a Ken Burns movie, it would probably have turned out better than "The Better Angels," A.J. Edwards's humorless, pretentious black-and-white tone poem about a very young Abe Lincoln. Full Review