Daily Plastic: Frost/Nixon

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Frost/Nixon Trailer . IMDB	Langella takes what had become a caricature in modern society and peels back the layers to show his humanity. It’s a wonderfully nuanced portrayal and one of my favorites of the last several years. I’m a bit surprised, actually, that Langella isn’t seen as a shoo-in for the Oscar. J. Robert Parks Daily Plastic	Three reasons to pay good money In a masterful performance, Langella highlights Nixon's oily charm and guile; there's a reason an ugly, unpleasant man with a hangdog face, gravelly voice, perpetual 5 o'clock shadow, and sad eyes rose from nothing to become the most powerful man in the world. Nathan Rabin Onion AV Club [Michael] Sheen, who was Tony Blair in Morgan's The Queen, dazzles as the debonair media high-wire artist holding on for dear life when the slippery Nixon ducks all his early-round punches. David Ansen Newsweek In Frost/Nixon, [Ron] Howard deploys everything he has learned about acting, and everything he has known since childhood about the television medium, to celebrate one of TV's highest functions: its power to serve as an audiovisual lie detector. Michael Sragow Baltimore Sun But the best reason is... Langella is not a natural Nixon; he has a voluptuary's face and a self-assurance the president only dreamed of. So he burrows into Nixon and comes out with a figure who is less a simulacrum than the definitive interpretation. Richard Corliss Time

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