The film delivers a highly enjoyable thing: Sean Penn's portentous performance. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jun 28, 2019

Debut writer/director Neils Mueller (co-writer on "Tadpole") stitches together an ambiguous meditation on the pervasive affects of government corruption during the Nixon Administration that led a Baltimore man to attempt to kill the President by hijacking

| Original Score: C- | Apr 18, 2009

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 14, 2007

The film manages something quite remarkable, both a compassion for Bicke's wounded sense of life's betrayals, and stark revulsion for the personal logic of his bloody remedy.

Full Review | May 28, 2007

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2006

(...) Niels Mueller (...) conduce el relato con seguridad y tensión creciente hacia el inevitable estallido de violencia final.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 28, 2005

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Penn's performance is tentative, squirmy; his Sam is a man who seems to be apologizing even when he isn't.

| Sep 16, 2005

There are good things about the movie, but it finally trips itself up on its two-fisted seriousness.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 1, 2005

Gets stuck using as its messenger such a wacko.

| Original Score: B | May 3, 2005

It's a small and quiet drama, but it's also one that sucks you in quite smoothly. Penn, as always, is fantastic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 26, 2005

This movie provides a lot of food for thought about true believers who don't mind killing people to achieve their goals.

| Original Score: B | Apr 25, 2005

By the close you're convinced that there should have been more to the film than what ended up onscreen.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 19, 2005

An engaging, thought-provoking drama that is frequently unbearably moving thanks to career best work from Sean Penn.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 9, 2005

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 9, 2005

One of the most successful attempts to tell the tale of an, ultimately, criminal person without ever forcing us to condone his crimes.

Full Review | Original Score: 93/100 | Apr 2, 2005

It makes for a grim time at the movies, but also a sobering one because it seeks truth, not sensationalism, in ugliness.

Full Review | Mar 30, 2005

Even with three top-flight actors, The Assassination of Richard Nixon never becomes much more than a character study of a footnote in American history.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 11, 2005

A case study devoid of empathy, it's Taxi Driver from Cybill Shepherd's point of view.

Full Review | Mar 5, 2005

Penn delivers another of the incisive and riveting performances we've come to expect from one of our greatest actors.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 4, 2005