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Secret Honor

1984

Robert Altman

Philip Baker Hall

6.4

98

Drama In this speculative one-man drama, we see former President Richard Milhous Nixon alone in his study, dictating his thoughts into a tape recorder. His only company are a four-screen closed-circuit TV setup, the portraits on the walls, a bottle of Chivas Regal - and a loaded pistol. At times addressing an imaginary judge in a court of public opinion, at other times speaking to an aide named Roberto, and sometimes just talking to himself, ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"One of the funniest, most unsettling, most imaginative and most surprisingly affecting movies of its very odd kind I've ever seen"	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"The dramatic material, overheated to begin with, is hyped up by hysterical acting and further exaggerated by a busy mise-en-scene based on meaningless camera movements and space-destroying zooms"	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"One of the most scathing, lacerating and brilliant movies of 1984 (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Nathan Rabin AV Club	"No depiction of [Lincoln's] life has cut deeper than Altman’s angry yet empathetic exploration of the existential angst that plagued the ultimate bête noire of 1960s counterculture"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"Fascinating stuff."	POS

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