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
Adaptations of works by Robert E. Howard announced in 2005. Ron Perlman was cast as Conan with Cree Summer as Valeria. Peter Berg was signed up in 2008 as the director of a film based on and titled Bran Mak Morn. "Vultures", based on the novella "The Vultures of Wahpeton" was announced in 2006 and expected to be released in 2011. In 2003, a short film adaptation of Howard's short story "Casonetto's Last Song", directed by Brenda Dau and Derek M. Koch, was featured as an official selection of the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival. The first Howard adaptation was not Conan related, although all subsequent examples