Frost / Nixon Critic Reviews

Frank Langella and Michael Sheen do not attempt to mimic their characters, but to embody them.Read the full review

It's hard to imagine how a film built around one-on-one interviews could be entertaining, but Frost/Nixon could not be more enthralling.Read the full review

Morgan finds the right elements of action and character through which to make history leap off the page.Read the full review

In a masterful performance, Langella highlights Nixon's oily charm and guile.Read the full review

Surges with an energy and visual verve that improve the play and enhance the themes of dramatist Peter Morgan's script.Read the full review

The result is involving, engrossing cinema -- more thrilling, in fact, than Howard's "The Da Vinci Code" -- filmmaking of a type rarely seen anymore and sorely missed.Read the full review

What Ron Howard gets, to a degree that's astonishing in a two-hour film, is the density and complexity, as well as the generous entertainment quotient, of Peter Morgan's screenplay.Read the full review

Director Ron Howard has turned Peter Morgan's stage success into a grabber of a movie laced with tension, stinging wit and potent human drama.Read the full review

Howard and Morgan have transformed this story into something more than an embellished re-telling of recent history. They have shaped a tragedy that is almost Shakespearean in force.Read the full review