Nixon 1995

Susan Stark, Detroit News: Thoughtful, well-researched and carefully modulated, the film also marks director Oliver Stone's coming of age. Read more

Janet Maslin, New York Times: 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. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: 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. Read more

Entertainment Weekly: It's overwhelming to see the many sides of Richard Nixon brought together with this kind of epic force. More than just biography, Nixon is a dizzying and cathartic spectacle -- a free fall through 50 years of American political imagination. Read more

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James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Factual or not, there's no denying that Nixon has moments when it is nothing short of compelling. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: 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 Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: The problem here isn't accuracy. It's absurdity. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: As wayward and self-regarding as its subject, the film long overstays its welcome. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Variety: Nixon far overstays its welcome with an increasingly tedious final hour devoted largely to slogging through the minutiae of Watergate. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: You will not be bored. Read more