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Elvis & Nixon

2016

Liza Johnson

Michael Shannon, Kevin Spacey, Evan Peters, Ashley Benson ...

5.8

1,415

Comedy A recreation of the meeting at the White House between Elvis Presley and President Nixon.

	Author	Review
United States	Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"Even funnier than it sounds (...) If the film doesn't show things the way they actually happened, it shows them the way they should have"	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"While its sense of humor takes some gettin’ used to, the sheer spaciness of Liza Johnson’s stranger-than-fiction political satire ultimately proves its greatest asset"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"The movie’s irreverent, unassuming tone eventually starts to feel like a crutch: Elvis & Nixon is so superficial and cutesy that it proscribes greater emotional undercurrent"	NEU
United States	David Edelstein Vulture	"A thoroughly charming comedy that bobs on a sea of incongruities (...) Kevin Spacey (...) is stupendous, the best and subtlest Nixon ever"	POS
United Kingdom	Nigel M. Smith The Guardian	"Michael Shannon resurrects the King (...) However, Johnson’s film falters when it veers from its titular duo to focus on the tangential ones (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Even when I didn't buy a word being said, I went with the flow. Why? Michael Shannon as Elvis and Kevin Spacey as Tricky Dick. Watching great actors swing for the fences is something special. (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Sam Fragoso IndieWire	"A painful disappointment from start to finish (...) There isn’t a moment in this somehow too-long movie where these actors effectively portray Elvis or Nixon"	NEG
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Despite Mr. Shannon and Mr. Spacey, who appear to be having a fine time working off each other, the meeting is anticlimactic."	NEU

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