Film review: Frost/Nixon | Film | The Guardian

LFF. Frost/Nixon.
GreenCine Daily — "As well as creeping impatience, there is a weird sense of deja vu watching the talky, inert drama which opens tonight's London film festival - about David Frost's legendary TV interviews in 1977 with the disgraced ex-president Richard Nixon." The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw: "Its screenwriter, Peter Morgan, gave us The Queen, starring Michael Sheen as Tony Blair and Helen Mirren as the monarch. Now, once again, Sheen plays a media-savvy and weirdly depthless figure facing off against a ...

Early Word On “Frost/Nixon,” Icy To Mixed At Best
Fataculture — ... new film by Ron Howard, based on the play by Peter Morgan which he adapted himself for the film, focusing on a series of controversial interviews conducted between David Frost and Richard Nixon, played by Michael Sheen and Richard Nixon respectively, who also played the same roles in the Tony Award winning play. As appetizing as the thought of this film is, I can’t say my interest stems any further than curiosity and some of the reviews below confirm some of my suspicions thus far. Peter Bradshaw thinks “Frost/Nixon,” which is lined up for the London Film Fest kind of sucks, ...

Frost/Nixon Early Reviews
Thompson On Hollywood — ... Ron Howard and Peter Morgan's film version of Morgan's play Frost/Nixon screened at the London Film fest at 10 AM Wednesday morning. The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw has a mixed review. Like ...

Early Buzz: Frost/Nixon Gets Mixed Response
/Film — ... Guardian: “But transferring this small-screen drama to the stage was a more interesting medium-shift than moving it to the big screen.” ...

Grazer/Howard Lament Lackluster First Reviews Of 'Frost/Nixon' [Critics Corner]
Gawker: defamer — ... · "Sheen's impersonation of Frost starts with the classic tics: the head waggle, the nasal droning, the tiny soupçon of Brucie - but he soon sounds like ... well ... Tony Blair. [...] Nixon is a juicy part and Langella extracts every tasty drop.But the performance has no room to grow. Frost and Nixon have no 'real-world' encounters: it is like a boxing movie about two combatants who never meet outside the ring." — Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian ...

First Reviews for ‘Frost/Nixon’ Are Crappy/Middling
Vulture — ... the only American director to achieve such a high degree of professional skill without displaying a trace of a cinematic personality"). Practically all reviews praise Frank Langella's performance as Nixon, but only the London Times liked the movie itself without qualification. And another awards hopeful bites the dust! Wall-E is so going to win Best Picture. Frost/Nixon [In Contention] Frost/Nixon [Variety] Frost/Nixon [HR] Frost/Nixon [Guardian] Frost/Nixon [Times Online] ...

Oscar Update: Frosty 'Frost/Nixon' Reviews and My Early Best Pic Predicts
RopeofSilicon.com — ... it has a "sluggish" first hour and even says Michael Sheen's performance as David Frost "quickly becomes one-note, offering neither the magnified subtlety or shading to make Frost a compellingly flawed hero, nor the firepower to match Langella's in the film's showy set-pieces." Lodge's final sentence: "It's an irony that Howard and Morgan obviously did not intend and certainly should have taken to heart before embarking on this coldly unilluminating film." Peter Bradshaw at the Guardian continued the onslaught in a 2/5 star review saying, "Frank Langella rolls over Sheen ...