Nixon (1995)
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Reviews Counted: 52 Fresh: 39 Rotten:13 Average Rating: 6.6/10
Runtime: 3 hrs 33 mins
Synopsis: Using a nonchronological narrative style à la CITIZEN KANE (from which he quotes), director Oliver Stone explores former president Richard Nixon's strict Quaker upbringing, his nascent political strivings in law school, and his strangely self-effacing courtship of his wife, Pat... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, James Woods, Powers Boothe, Bob Hoskins
Director: Oliver Stone
Screenwriter: Oliver Stone, Stephen J. Rivele, Christopher Wilkinson
Producer: Oliver Stone, Clayton Townsend, Andrew G. Vajna, Dan Halstead
Composer: John Williams
Screenwriter: Oliver Stone, Stephen J. Rivele, Christopher Wilkinson
Producer: Oliver Stone, Clayton Townsend, Andrew G. Vajna, Dan Halstead
Composer: John Williams
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A convincing blend of Shakespearean tragedy and Citizen Kane, Nixon paints the thirty-seventh President of the United States as a uniquely American tragic hero...[Blu-Ray]
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08/20/08
Some of Nixon's scenes are standouts, but it's Hopkins' crazy rants that you won't forget.
08/19/08
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01/26/06
Top Critic
The combination of Oliver Stone and Richard Nixon, two paranoids from opposite ends of the political spectrum, is a match made in cinematic heaven.
01/23/06
For all its unwieldy temporal scope and narrowness of perspective, Nixon is an amazingly graceful beast, flawed yet invigorating, packed with enough material that will fascinate and irk moviegoers of all stripes for quite a time to come.
01/08/06
A hulking tyrannosaur of a movie, lusty and fierce, crashing around for all the world to see, majestic in its size and scope though it's also an instant anachronism.
11/07/04
What it finally adds up to is a huge mixed bag of waxworks and daring, a film that is furiously ambitious even when it goes flat, and startling even when it settles for eerie, movie-of-the-week mimicry.
05/20/03
Top Critic
The film could have worked. There was Hopkins and Allen to make it work. But maybe the curse of Nixon had a whammy effect.
04/24/03
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