Rotten
As wayward and self-regarding as its subject, the film long overstays its welcome.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Nixon
Triumphant in Victory, Bitter in Defeat. He Changed the World, But Lost a Nation.
1995 · 3h 12m · R
Drama, History
Directed by
Oliver Stone
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Nixon
Overview
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spanning his troubled boyhood in California to the shocking Watergate scandal that would end his Presidency.
Director and cast
- Oliver Stone Director
- Anthony Hopkins as Richard Nixon
- Joan Allen as Pat Nixon
- Powers Boothe as Alexander Haig
- Ed Harris as E. Howard Hunt
- Bob Hoskins as J. Edgar Hoover
- E.G. Marshall as John Mitchell
- David Paymer as Ron Ziegler
- David Hyde Pierce as John Dean
- Paul Sorvino as Henry Kissinger
- Mary Steenburgen as Hannah Nixon
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
75%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Fresh
Without question, Nixon dwarfs everything in the American cinema since Schindler's List.
Hal Hinson, Washington Post
Fresh
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.
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
Nixon far overstays its welcome with an increasingly tedious final hour devoted largely to slogging through the minutiae of Watergate.
Todd McCarthy, Variety
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