| Original Score: A | Sep 7, 2011

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

| Original Score: A- | Oct 27, 2008

A staggering work of empathy for Stone.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 19, 2008

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

| Jan 26, 2006

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.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 8, 2006

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 20, 2003

Without question, Nixon dwarfs everything in the American cinema since Schindler's List.

Full Review | Feb 16, 2001

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.

| Feb 13, 2001

Nixon far overstays its welcome with an increasingly tedious final hour devoted largely to slogging through the minutiae of Watergate.

Full Review | Feb 13, 2001

You will not be bored.

| Jan 1, 2000

Casting Anthony Hopkins was a stroke of unexpected genius.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Joan Allen goes beyond her chilling physical resemblance to Pat Nixon toward serious Oscar worthiness.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

The picture is a case study.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

There's no compelling structure or viewpoint to hold the picture together.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Thoughtful, well-researched and carefully modulated, the film also marks director Oliver Stone's coming of age.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

The problem here isn't accuracy. It's absurdity.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Stone's no Shakespeare, and neither are his screenwriters.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Real life, if it's real Nixon, is more dramatic than an Oliver Stone movie.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

I never felt that I was seeing the darkness reaching out to the darkness as Nixon was once described.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

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

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000