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
Frank Langella Baker in "Dominance", a 2003 episode of "" and had a recurring role as Pino in the 2005 short-lived sitcom "Kitchen Confidential". On film, he played Clare Quilty in Adrian Lyne's adaptation of "Lolita" and appeared as a villainous pirate in the summer 1995 release "Cutthroat Island". His film work also includes roles in George Clooney's "Good Night, and Good Luck" (2005) as former CBS chief executive William S. Paley and Bryan Singer's "Superman Returns" (2006) as "Daily Planet" editor Perry White. Langella received critical acclaim as well as the Boston Society of Film Critics Award in 2007 for his