Frost / Nixon Critic Reviews

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's compact, satisfying drama presents presidential interviewing as a gladiatorial event.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

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

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

Less a political movie than a boxing film without the gloves.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

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

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