The Better Angels is a 2014 American biographical historical drama film about United States President Abraham Lincoln's formative years.

[3][4] This film serves as a story of Abraham Lincoln's childhood, his upbringing in Indiana, and the hardships and tragedies that made him the man he was.

Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a positive review, saying it's "a beautiful, arty, very Malick-influenced evocation of Abraham Lincoln's childhood.

"[7] Katie Hasty of HitFix praised the film by saying it is "a lushly conceived, exhaustively realized debut feature that'd be pretty formidable stuff coming from a more practised filmmaker — and derided in some quarters as a self-impressed knock-off.

The website's critics' consensus reads: "Malick-inspired but not as inspired as Malick, The Better Angels muffles an interesting idea under ponderous execution.