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To Thine Own Self Be Trunew
The cautionary Capote tale deserve multiple stagings -- especially if they're this good.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
10-12-2006 |
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Powerful Portraitnew
Philip Seymour Hoffman and his supporting cast excel in Capote.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
11-03-2005 |
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Tags: Capote, Bennett Miller
Wily Capote
Philip Seymour Hoffman gives one of his best performances, as manipulative writer Truman Capote, in one of the year's best films.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
11-03-2005 |
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Novel Gazingnew
While Capote is a good film, it hasn’t closed the book on the subject, even though the performances are undeniably great.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
10-27-2005 |
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Tru Colorsnew
With the concepts of artistic representation and exploitation becoming hopelessly blurred, the need for Capote couldn't be more compelling.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
10-27-2005 |
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Monsters Inknew
Bennett Miller’s movie plumbs the personal toll that Truman Capote’s book In Cold Blood took on its subjects and its author.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
10-26-2005 |
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A Reporter in Search of a Novel
Given a lurid case, a reporter becomes a film-noir character, stalking dark alleys in search of light. This setup works even if the reporter is a squeaky-voiced gay narcissist who combines the mannerisms of the Deep South with those of the Manhattan intellectual.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
10-20-2005 |
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Publish and Perishnew
The writer will do anything to get his book. The film shows at what a profound moral cost.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
10-20-2005 |
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Tags: Capote, Bennett Miller
Outside-the-Box Biopic Goes Deepnew
This director's second film is a morally complex and incisive look at not only the literary significance of In Cold Blood, but a penetrating observation of the devil's pact made between writers and their subjects.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
10-20-2005 |
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Writes and Wrongsnew
In Capote, a murder leads to a masterpiece, which leads to an undoing.
Houston Press |
Robert Wilonsky |
10-10-2005 |
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