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Nixon

Nixon (1995)

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

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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

Jun 15, 1999

Buena Vista Pictures

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All Critics (62) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (47) | 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
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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
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Without question, Nixon dwarfs everything in the American cinema since Schindler's List.

February 16, 2001
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
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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
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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
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Dense psychodrama of much-disliked U.S. president.

December 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
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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

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
Lessons of Darkness

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

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

It's the Shakespearian treatment that makes Nixon fascinating.

August 27, 2008 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis
Movie Metropolis

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
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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
Filmcritic.com

An epic film deserves an epic DVD treatment, and Nixon gets one.

August 19, 2008 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine
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A staggering work of empathy for Stone.

August 19, 2008 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine
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
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
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A riveting tragedy.

December 5, 2004 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com
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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
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Audience Reviews for Nixon

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

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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

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    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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