Capote
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 166 Ratings
- Starring: Catherine Keener, Philip Seymour Hoffman
- Summary: A profile of Truman Capote during the years he researched the story that was to become the basis for the book "In Cold Blood."
- Director: Bennett Miller
- Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Crime
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Positive: 38 out of 40
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Mixed: 2 out of 40
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Negative: 0 out of 40
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100Capote represents something unique in cinema.…Most eye-catching for critics and audiences in the weeks to come will be Philip Seymour Hoffman's brilliant metamorphosis into the persona of the late author.
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100The movie's excellence, a stylistic world apart from the strikingly photographed but rather hysterical 1967 film version of Capote's masterwork, is in capturing its subject without pinning him down.
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80Capote begins as a sprawling, vivacious comedy-drama in which Hoffman's Capote is only one of a number of fascinating characters, including Chris Cooper's upstanding, ramrod-straight lawman and Keener's tough, blunt assistant/sidekick/foil/author.
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60While the filmmaking overall suffers from a kind of tasteful, low-key blandness, Philip Seymour Hoffman's portrayal of Capote keeps the blood coursing through it. He's the bright, chilling spot of color at the center of an otherwise beige movie.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 65 out of 83
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Mixed: 11 out of 83
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Negative: 7 out of 83
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RobertB.10
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MohammedR.7This movie is overrated. The acting is very good, but the story is boring. This is not the sort of movie that one would want to see twice.
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PrestonB.1
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