Langella and Sheen's stirring work certainly goes a long way towards cementing Frost / Nixon's mild success, while Howard surely deserves credit for infusing the production with a distinctly cinematic quality that generally belies its stage origins. (reelfilm.com)
The stage origins are obvious, and director Clare Peploe (Rough Magic, Highway Season) even acknowledges these origins in a bizarre sort of way near the end of the movie. (haro-online.com)
Perhaps it's the nature of its stage origins, or the ostensible «worthiness» of the project, or perhaps it's because the film is so bruisingly effective as to be almost overpowering. (indiewire.com)