Photo: Electric Entertainment, Lionsgate and Miramax This article originally ran in 2018 and is being republished for Inauguration Day.
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16. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Dopey and certainly bad for you — but, if you’re in the right mood, also wonderfully bonkers — this action flick hoped to cash in on the “historic figures or books, but with horror!” wave that also included Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Adapting Zombies novelist Seth Grahame-Smith’s book, which reimagined our 16th president as a kick-ass vampire slayer, director Timur Bekmambetov overdoes the gloomy grandeur and violent kill sequences.
12. Dick This goofy comedy sees the Watergate scandal through the eyes of two silly but smarter-than-they-look teenagers , and it works better as a comedy than any sort of real-life commentary. Dan Hedaya’s Nixon is adequately buffoonish and paranoid, but he’s just sort of passing through his own film; Williams and Dunst, happily, are the real stars. Also the real stars: some truly inspired down-credit casting, from Dave Foley as Haldeman, Harry Shearer as G.
8. W. .youtube[data-uri="www.vulture.com/_components/youtube/instances/cjo5w9mco00ak3g61nc4uztw1@published"].border-top:before { content: 'Watch'; } It would be easy to assume that Oliver Stone, liberal firebrand, would eviscerate George W. Bush in his biopic. Shockingly, W. mostly pities a man who, according to the film, simply wasn’t equipped for the life that fate had in store for him.
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