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(1 - 44) of 44 OFCS Rating: 93% Fresh Page   1   3.5/5 "Frost/Nixon is engaging cinematic theater, nothing more, and a great deal less. Its import offered up via grandstanding, showboating, and inferred integrity"   PopMatters   Bill Gibron 1.5/4 "Frost/Nixon is a trivial afterword to a historical footnote, a showbiz story inflated into a retroactive therapy session for one of 20th-century America's biggest knaves."   Slant Magazine   Bill Weber 5/5 "."   Filmcritic.com   Blake French B "Remains an intelligent, evocative reminder of simple television appetites and the dynamism, the pure drilling ecstasy, of journalistic hunger."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf "...this is the Nixon of history."   PopMatters   Chris Barsanti B+ "Sheen's and Langella's pin-point precision of inner character development and range of facial expressions are the main reasons to see this well-written movie."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 3/4 "...Howard surely deserves credit for infusing the production with a distinctly cinematic quality that generally belies its stage origins."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair B "Langella makes an impressive Nixon despite a lack of physical resemblance."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2.5/4 "Avoiding staginess even as the subject matter threatens to turn it into such, Ron Howard opens up the film's world through Salvatore Totino's glossy cinematography and a firm handle on his mise en scene."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman 4/5 "Estupendo cine sobre periodismo y política, que logra fascinar con sus entretelones de una entrevista crucial que es presentada casi como si fuera una pelea de boxeo."   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio B+ "It's safe to say no one will ever play Nixon as effectively as Langella does here."   Film.com   Eric D. Snider 4/4 "Without George W. Bush, the Frost/Nixon conversations may have become just another anecdote of remembering when - instead of confronting audiences with the ironies of two wartime Presidents not owning up to the mistakes that were made."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress "Howard can't, as someone mentions in the film, distinguish between a performer and a journalist"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce B+ "An enjoyable riff that engagingly mixes recreation and imagination and is elevated above stunt status by two superb performances."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 4/5 "A fascinating and riveting film about a television personality and a former President who share a dependence on others for respect; Frank Langella gives an Academy Award-caliber performance."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat B "An indisputably superb entertainment with a dubious claim to veritas."   Modern Fabulousity   Gabriel Shanks 3.5/4 "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"   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3.5/4 "Ron Howard has the benefit of being able to structure the film's entire second act around close-ups, which allows his two fine leading actors to convey the smallest details of emotional turmoil"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 4/5 "Frost/Nixon has the grainy, oiled-oak gravitas of an Oscar contender ... The good news for audiences is that there's some remarkably fine construction and real heft under the surface shine."   Cinematical   James Rocchi 2.5/4 "Frost/Nixon acquits itself through Langella's performance and Morgan's tight script, but Howard fails to give the material a pointed spin."   Cinema Writer   Jay Antani 7/10 "Langella gives Nixon a chance at audience sympathy -- for everything you know and possibly hate about the man, you can see, through the performance, that third dimension."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen "Parental Content Review"   Screen It!   Jim Judy "Langella inhabits the pouchy skin of the man he's playing, until soon any meaningful distinction between actor and subject disappears."   Film.com   Jonathan F. Richards 3/5 "if you hated Nixon, loved the original stage play or watched the original interview with great interest thirty years ago, you'll eat this film up"   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr B+ "Director Ron Howard pulls from the pugilistic experience of "Cinderella Man" and restages Morgan's play as a boxing match between two unlikely and opposite contenders...All that's missing are Don King and the ring girls."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "Peter Morgan's play about the behind-the-scenes research, negotiation and fundraising that produced the Frost-Nixon interviews may not sound like natural-born movie material...But the talk is choice, and the film... is mesmerizing."   Miss FlickChick   Maitland McDonagh 8/10 "While the main character is Michael Sheen's David Frost, Frank Langella is fascinating as the cold and withdrawn Richard Nixon."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper 3/4 "The best boxing movie of 2008; with words and wits instead of gloves and fists"   Movie Habit   Marty Mapes "[Howard takes] a cue from himself, from his own first truly great film more than a decade ago, Apollo 13... [T]here's an almost documentary-style straightforwardness to Frost/Nixon..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3/4 "Ron Howard's main job here is to simply stay out of the way of his two actors, and that he does."   TheMovieReport.com   Michael Dequina 4/4 "Even if the historical value is only of minor interest to you, Frost/Nixon remains a great human tragedy about two men who meet on a televised battleground, knowing that it's do-or-die time."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan A- "A gripping story of the craving of two very different men for power and acceptance that becomes a larger story of accountability and meaning."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow C "In terms of condescending narrative handholding, Frost/Nixon has no 2008 rival."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 4/5 "The film does offer up a reasonably absorbing and exciting take on a fascinating historical footnote and allows those of us who didn't get to see Langella's award-winning performance during the play's original run to see what all the fuss was about."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 4/5 "One of the most gripping and entertaining political dramas in recent memory."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 4/5 "Langella, of course, warrants the attention paid."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves B "If a slight sense of mustiness remains, Howard brings enough old-fashioned spit and polish to cover it up admirably."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux A "Even though we know the outcome, once again the magic works for Ron Howard and a fine cast of actors."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten A- "Awards season draws near but there have been few, thus far, major films that I consider worthy. Frost/Nixon is one of the few."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 5/5 "If there's a single misstep in Ron Howard's expertly calibrated Frost/Nixon, it eluded me."   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell 10/10 "This suspenseful battle-of-wills is ferociously exciting. A must-see!"   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 7/10 "A fine entertainment for a winter night that plays it completely safe."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 3.5/4 "Anchored by an outstanding performance by Frank Langella, this stage-to-screen adaptation doesn't feel rooted to the boards like so many others have been."   Oscar Guy   Wesley Lovell "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 44) of 44 OFCS Rating: 93% Fresh Page   1