Frost/Nixon

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Critics' Reviews

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USA Today: Claudia Puig
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 Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
Frank Langella and Michael Sheen do not attempt to mimic their characters, but to embody them.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
Surges with an energy and visual verve that improve the play and enhance the themes of dramatist Peter Morgan's script.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
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 Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
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 Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
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 Full Review »
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Washington Post: Philip Kennicott
Neither the title nor the subject matter prepares you for the pure fun of Frost/Nixon.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
Howard has made a picture for grown-ups, a well-constructed entertainment that neither talks down to its audience nor congratulates it just for showing up.Read Full Review »
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NewsWeek: David Ansen
Frost/Nixon works even better on screen. Director Ron Howard and Morgan, adapting his own play, have both opened up the tale and, with the power of close-ups, made this duel of wits even more intimate and suspenseful.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: J. Hoberman
Frost/Nixon's main attraction is neither its topicality nor its historical value, but Langella's re-creation of his Tony-winning performance.Read Full Review »
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