Frost/Nixon (film) an approval rating of 92% based on 250 reviews, with a weighted average score of 7.9/10. The site's critical consensus reads, ""Frost/Nixon" is weighty and eloquent; a cross between a boxing match and a ballet with Oscar worthy performances." Metacritic gives the film an average score of 80 out of 100, based on 38 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Critic Roger Ebert gave the film four stars, commenting that Langella and Sheen "do not attempt to mimic their characters, but to embody them." Peter Travers of "Rolling Stone" gave the film 3½ stars, saying that Ron Howard "turned Peter Morgan's
Michael Sheen in the fantasy children's film "Mariah Mundi and the Midas Box". R. Kurt Osenlund of "Slant Magazine" said "the ever-versatile Sheen brings an artful hamminess to his role" but Matt Pais of "RedEye" found him "insufficiently zany" in "a part that Robert Downey Jr. would nail but never accept." His second film role of 2014 was a minor role in the political thriller "Kill the Messenger". Also in 2014, he starred in IFC's six-episode "The Spoils of Babylon", a television parody of classic, sweeping miniseries, in which he played the husband of Kristen Wiig's character. In 2015, Sheen starred opposite