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Frost/Nixon

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United Kingdom, France, United States
·
2008

Rated R · 2h 2m

Director Ron Howard
Starring Michael Sheen, Frank Langella, Kevin Bacon, Sam Rockwell
Genre Drama, History
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Former President Nixon sits down for his first interview following his resignation from office in the wake of the Watergate scandal. Nixon selected British journalist David Frost to conduct the interview, and the journalist confronts the former commander-in-chief with harsh questions about his past and the political cover-up that ended his career.

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Newsweek by 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.
80

The New Yorker by David Denby

Offers considerable insight into the Nixon mystery, without solving it; the movie is fully absorbing and even, when Nixon falls into a drunken, resentful rage, exciting, but I can't escape the feeling that it carries about it an aura of momentousness that isn't warranted by the events.
80

Village Voice by 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.
88

ReelViews by 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.
90

Los Angeles Times by 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.
70

Variety by Todd McCarthy

Frank Langella's meticulous performance will generate the sort of attention that will attract serious filmgoers.

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