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Nixon

Nixon (1995)

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65

Average Rating: 6.3/10
Critic Reviews: 20
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 7

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72

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Average Rating: 3.5/5
User Ratings: 11,971

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Oliver Stone, the most outspokenly political American filmmaker of the 1980s and '90s, directs this epic-length biography of Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the U.S., who was re-elected by a landslide in 1972, only to resign in disgrace two years later. Taking a non-linear approach, Nixon jumps back and forth between many different periods and events, from Nixon's strict upbringing at the hands of his Quaker mother, through the many peaks and valleys of his political career, to his downfall

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Documentary, Drama

Oliver Stone, Stephen J. Rivele, Christopher Wilkinson

Jun 15, 1999

Buena Vista Pictures

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Critic Reviews for Nixon

All Critics (62) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (45) | Rotten (15) | DVD (18)

As wayward and self-regarding as its subject, the film long overstays its welcome.

January 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
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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.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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Without question, Nixon dwarfs everything in the American cinema since Schindler's List.

February 16, 2001
Hal Hinson
Washington Post
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Nixon far overstays its welcome with an increasingly tedious final hour devoted largely to slogging through the minutiae of Watergate.

February 13, 2001 Full Review Source: Variety
Todd McCarthy
Variety
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Nixon starts, like a horror movie, on a dark and stormy night, with the president prowling around a room of the White House like Dracula in his lair.

February 13, 2001 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times
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Thoughts of Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear come to mind; here, again, is a ruler destroyed by his fatal flaws. There's something almost majestic about the process: As Nixon goes down in this film, there is no gloating, but a watery sigh, as of a great ship

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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Dense psychodrama of much-disliked U.S. president.

December 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Charles Cassady
Common Sense Media

You could say that Nixon is Oliver Stone's Citizen Kane, and not necessarily mean it as praise.

August 20, 2009 Full Review Source: City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Rob Nelson
City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul Source: City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul

The filmmaker's deftness at evoking theme and sentiment through editorial montages within individual dramatic scenes reaches an apotheosis here.

October 27, 2008 Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
Lessons of Darkness

It's clear that Stone hates Nixon with a capital H.

August 28, 2008 Full Review Source: 7M Pictures | Comments (3)
Kevin Carr
7M Pictures

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]

August 20, 2008 Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews
Peter Canavese
Groucho Reviews

Some of Nixon's scenes are standouts, but it's Hopkins' crazy rants that you won't forget.

August 19, 2008 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

A staggering work of empathy for Stone.

August 19, 2008 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine
Matt Noller
Slant Magazine

The combination of Oliver Stone and Richard Nixon, two paranoids from opposite ends of the political spectrum, is a match made in cinematic heaven.

January 23, 2006
Chuck O'Leary
Fantastica Daily

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.

January 8, 2006 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

A riveting tragedy.

December 5, 2004 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

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.

November 7, 2004 Full Review Source: Nick's Flick Picks
Nick Davis
Nick's Flick Picks

The film could have worked. There was Hopkins and Allen to make it work. But maybe the curse of Nixon had a whammy effect.

April 24, 2003
Moira Sullivan
FilmFestivals.com

The maverick director has outdone himself with a visually stunning, sweeping epic of the life of one of this country's most enigmatic political figures.

March 16, 2003 Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope
Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope

Hopkins doesn't try to look like or resemble Nixon, but he does wind up embodying him.

November 7, 2002 Full Review Source: Netflix
James Rocchi
Netflix

Hopkin's strangely effective imitation conveys a real sense of tragedy to this most infamous U.S. President.

November 1, 2002
Rob Vaux
Flipside Movie Emporium

_"Can you imagine what this man would have been had he ever been loved?"

October 30, 2002 Full Review
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Stone meshes together flashbacks, newsreels, black&white and color as well as different types of film, therefore creating a very complex piece. He turns Nixon's life into a real modern tragedy.

September 10, 2002 Full Review Source: Montreal Film Journal
Kevin N. Laforest
Montreal Film Journal

Riveting drama about a power-hungry politician brought down by guilt and paranoia.

August 21, 2002 Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice
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Audience Reviews for Nixon

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I will admit, Anthony Hopkins does not look like Nixon, but after the first couple scenes this aesthetic problem becomes void. Not only does Hopkins nail the mannerisms of the historical figure, but gives a deep and compelling humanity to the character. Director Oliver Stone delivers a tad un-even but very epic and ambitious biopic that leaves no part of Nixon's life un-explored. Stone mostly succeeds in portraying the controversial historical figure with nice objectivity and showing the dirty underbelly of politics. Although the film runs at a whopping 3 hours, Stones tight editing and visceral (almost hallucinatory at times) direction keeps the pace in check. Hopkins performance, along with the film's great supporting cast, alone make the 3 hour runtime worth it.
October 7, 2011
Christopher Heim
Christopher Heim

Super Reviewer

Hopkins is a monster. He does a truly larger than life performance, even if the megalomaniacal and mythomaniac Oliver Stone tries to pass his own paranoia to the Nixon character, Hopkins succeeds in retaining not only the madness but the candor and humanity only seen and heard from a Shakespeare monarch. Overlong and hallucinatory but dense and ultimately compelling approach to one of the most controversial figures who swam and almost drown in that stormy and treacherous shithole called politics.
September 14, 2011
pier007
Pierluigi Puccini

Super Reviewer

Nixon Quotes

    1. Richard M. Nixon: Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
    – Submitted by Alex K (7 months ago)
    1. Richard M. Nixon: People look at you and they see who they want to be. They look at me and they see what they are.
    – Submitted by Alex K (7 months ago)
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