Robot & Frank

This weird, winning little movie explores what happens to the essential self as the memory goes.

"...Directed by: Jake Schreier. Starring: Frank Langella, Susan Sarandon, James Marsden, Liv Tyler, Jeremy Strong,..."

Aug. 31, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Angry Neighbors

Frank Langella goes on a rampage against the McMansion next door

"...Directed by: Warren Brock. Starring: Frank Langella, Cheech Marin, Bobby Cannavale, Stockard Channing and Harrison..."

Dec. 2, 2022 Movie Review

Small Soldiers

"...Ann Magnuson, Denis Leary, Dick Miller, Tommy Lee Jones, Frank Langella, Ernest Borgnine, George Kennedy and Michael McKean. It..."

July 10, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dave

"...Directed by: Ivan Reitman. Starring: Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella, Kevin Dunn, Ving Rhames and Ben Kingsley. Scrambling..."

May 7, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black

Frost/Nixon

Ron Howard presents us with Richard M. Nixon – the Christmas gift that keeps on giving.

"...Directed by: Ron Howard. Starring: Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Sam Rockwell, Oliver Platt, Kevin Bacon,..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Eddie

"...Directed by: Steve Rash. Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Frank Langella, Dennis Farina, Richard Jenkins and Lisa Ann Walter...."

June 7, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two: Fuel and Frost

Nixon film and doc review response offer different kinds of surprises

"...but Sheen doesn't. If the cast was less outstanding, Frank Langella's brilliant turn as Nixon would have overshadowed all..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Masters of the Universe

He-Man and Skeletor (Lundgren and Langella) face off, while teens battle to save the universe.

"...Directed by: Gary Goddard. Starring: Dolph Lundgren, Frank Langella, Courteney Cox, Jon Cypher, Billy Barty, Christina Pickles,..."

Feb. 21, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fright Night

The new Fright Night isn't a prick on the neck of the 1985 original, but what it does it does well.

"...with the sexy undead. In that film, über suave Frank Langella, resplendent in the traditional cape and blow-dried coif..."

Aug. 19, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Box

Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly goes for full-fledged suspense in this studio thriller.

"...Directed by: Richard Kelly. Starring: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella, Sam Oz Stone, Gillian Jacobs and James Rebhorn...."

Nov. 13, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Starting Out in the Evening

In this contemplative meditation on the pained aging of literary lions, Frank Langella delivers a brilliant performance as the story's elderly New York City novelist.

"...Directed by: Andrew Wagner. Starring: Frank Langella, Lauren Ambrose, Lili Taylor and Adrian Lester. At..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Trial of the Chicago 7

The famous anti-protestor show trial recounted

"...Sacha Baron Cohen, Daniel Flaherty, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Keaton, Frank Langella, John Carroll Lynch, Eddie Redmayne, Noah Robbins, Mark..."

Oct. 9, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Oliver Stone delivers an enlivening and wickedly entertaining take on the occasional angels and plentiful demons that have run the country into financial ruin.

"...Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Michael Douglas, Carey Mulligan, Josh Brolin, Frank Langella, Susan Sarandon and Eli Wallach. In the very..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Good Night, and Good Luck

Director and co-screenwriter George Clooney strikes just the right tone of gripping entertainment and understated cautionary tale in this thoughtful portrait of newsman Edward R. Murrow's confrontation with Sen. Joseph McCarthy.

"...David Strathairn, Robert Downey Jr., Patricia Clarkson, Ray Wise, Frank Langella, Jeff Daniels, George Clooney and Dianne Reeves. Director..."

Oct. 21, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bad Company

"...Spalding Gray, David Ogden Stiers, Laurence Fishburne, Michael Beach, Frank Langella and Gia Carides. Unfortunately for the talented Laurence..."

June 6, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Ninth Gate

"...Directed by: Roman Polanski. Starring: Lena Olin, Emmanuelle Seigner, Frank Langella and Johnny Depp. The devil, apparently, isn't in..."

March 17, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Lolita

"...Lyne. Starring: Jeremy Irons, Dominique Swain, Melanie Griffith and Frank Langella. It was probably inevitable that mainstream cinema's master..."

Oct. 16, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Brainscan

"...Directed by: John Flynn. Starring: Edward Furlong, Frank Langella, Amy Hargreaves, T. Ryder Smith and Jamie Marsh...."

April 22, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Father

Anthony Hopkins gives a timely career highlight in this story of dementia

"...great plays of the 21st Century. In 2016, actor Frank Langella debuted an American adaptation of the original West..."

March 12, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Austin Film Festival Review: Youth in Oregon

Family dramedy suffers from unnecessary subplots

"...Despite a fine ensemble that includes Frank Langella, Mary Kay Place, Christina Applegate, Billy Crudup, and..."

Oct. 22, 2016 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Twilight

One is human and the other's vampire: What's a pair of young soulmates to do?

"...High in favor of more sanguine affairs (Udo Kier? Frank Langella? Max Shreck!). When broody-but-cool teen Bella Swan (Stewart)..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

House of D

Here’s an interesting surprise: Dour, dry David Duchovny’s directorial debut is more weepy than creepy, a conventional coming-of-age story that flashes back to 1970s New York City.

"...lazy, stock characterization of the worst kind. The estimable Frank Langella pops in as a headmaster to liken the..."

April 29, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Wes Craven Presents: Dracula

"...Count is so anti-Christian and hates that silver, which frankly comes as a bit of a shock, but a..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

John Carpenter's Vampires

"...season, and Griffith's dark prince of evil is essentially Frank Langella with a makeover and a bad attitude. Woods..."

Oct. 30, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fall Film Previews

September

"...D: Michael Haneke; with Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Muhe, Frank Giering, Arno Frisch...."

Sept. 11, 1998 Screens Feature

DVDanger: Four Films in Search of a Cult

Retro releases and martial arts aim for new crowds

"...as a writer of genre cinema is undeniable: The Frank Langella Dracula, the Donald Sutherland Invasion of the Body..."

April 18, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Private Dancers

Watching (bad) movies with Mr. Sinus

"...THE UNIVERSE." Directed by Gary Goddard. With Dolph Lundgren, Frank Langella, Courteney Cox Arquette, James Tolkan, and Meg Foster...."

Aug. 10, 2001 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Show and Tell

Spring Previews 2000

"...D: Roman Polanski; Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin, Emmanuelle Seigner...."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...with Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, Christopher Plummer, Frank Gorshin, Jon Seda. (R, 130 min.) Terry Gilliam may..."

Jan. 5, 1996 News Feature

The Anton Yelchin We Thought We Knew

UT grad Garret Price gets to know the late actor in Love, Antosha

"...Foster to Jon Voight to Zoe Saldana, Zachary Quinto, Frank Langella, Jennifer Lawrence – an almost impossible who's who..."

Aug. 21, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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