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68 out of 100

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8.5 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 37 Ratings

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  • Starring: Daniel Craig, Sandra Bullock, Toby Jones
  • Summary: Infamous follows the dangerous quest for artistic greatness chosen by Truman Capote (Jones) as he travels to Kansas to investigate the brutal murder of the Clutter family, accompanied by lifelong friend and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Nelle Harper Lee (Bullock). (Warner Independent Pictures)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 29 out of 34
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 34
  3. Negative: 0 out of 34
  1. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Kirk Honeycutt
    90
    Infamous gives you the unique opportunity to see how two sets of filmmakers can take exactly the same story, make extremely tough though different choices in emphasis and tone and achieve brilliant movies.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: A.O. Scott
    90
    Less a parable of literary ethics than a showcase of literary personality, and it is in the end more touching than troubling.
  3. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Rene Rodriguez
    50
    McGrath makes literal what the other movie only hinted at -- that Perry falls in love with Capote -- turning the relationship between author and subject into something far less complicated and more mundane.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 25
  3. Negative: 2 out of 25
  1. trishc
    10
    Hands down, "Infamous" is the superior movie. It is so entertaining in the beginning, paced just right -- back and forth from Kansas and New York in the middle, and explosive, devastatingly so at the end. The casting is almost perfect, except for the banal Hope Davis, and Toby Jones is -- well, Truman Capote!!… Expand
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  2. JenniferH.
    10
    A masterpiece. About life, and love, and art, and how the latter two might make the first more bearable, or more miserable. Much better than the movie Capote, which was about one man. This is about all of us.… Expand
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  3. GeorgeR.
    1
    I walked out on this other Capote movie just as it was about to clumsily tackle the murders. By this point the filmmaker had so ham-fistedly decimated the tone of everything that had come before and had already tossed away what little jeopardy this real story offered, that there was really no point in abusing myself any longer. It should come as no surprise when one sees that this director’s previous credits include having once written for the most notoriously worst season of Saturday Night Live, 1980-81. This version of the true life “In Cold Blood” story was a colossal failure. I've noticed that movies that confuse their tones also mess up the decision over score and this one did it in spades going for a campy Broadway revue overture, making this the Branson Missouri version of Bennett Miller's more formidable “Capote”.… Expand
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