Sentences with phrase «mythmaking approach»

Hollywood Reporter writer Todd McCarthy called Donovan «a sort - of Atticus Finch of the north» and Variety writer Peter Debruge wrote of the film, «[Spielberg]'s mythmaking approach makes for great Capra-esque entertainment, [though] younger audiences may find it terribly old - fashioned.»

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Set in the Indiana backwoods where Abraham Lincoln (newcomer Braydon Denney) lived as a child, The Better Angels takes a demonstrably Malickian approach to American mythmaking, locating the core of the 16th American president's eminent integrity in his hardscrabble upbringing.