Frost / Nixon Critic Reviews
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Based upon 15 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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Despite a moving, canny incarnation of the man by Frank Langella, despite a slickly entertaining coffee-table production as only Ron Howard knows how, the movie feels cooked up.Read the full review
Frank Langella and Michael Sheen do not attempt to mimic their characters, but to embody them.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
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
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
Morgan finds the right elements of action and character through which to make history leap off the page.Read the full review
Morgan's compact, satisfying drama presents presidential interviewing as a gladiatorial event.Read the full review
Less a political movie than a boxing film without the gloves.Read the full review
Stories of lost crowns lend themselves to drama, but not necessarily audience-pleasing entertainments, which may explain why Frost/Nixon registers as such a soothing, agreeably amusing experience, more palliative than purgative.Read the full review
