Capote Reviews

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• while Capote as a film is far from perfect, Hoffman somehow comes close to making it exactly that

  by David Mercier [FilmJudge ]

• the most intelligent, detailed, and absorbing film ever made about a writer's working method and character-

  by David Denby [The New Yorker ]

• remarkable movie

  by Kevin Courrier [Boxoffice Magazine ]

• rapt, absorbing, and thrillingly perceptive biographical drama

  by Owen Gleiberman [Entertainment Weekly ]

• never quite becomes the fascinating portrait one imagines it's supposed to be

  by David Nusair [Reel Film Reviews ]

• Movies don't get much better than this

  by [E! Online ]

• fills in a lot of the gaps that the previous film--and the book--leave out.

  by Mike Szymanski [Hollywood ]

• engaging

  by Rachel Gordon [Filmcritic ]

• disturbing as much as it was memorable.

  by Alexis Tuminello [The Cinema Source ]

• an absorbing, emotionally challenging movie

  by Gene Seymour [Newsday ]

• a knockout

  by Peter Travers [Rolling Stone ]

• a deep movie with rich veins

  by James Berardinelli [ReelViews ]

• a brisk, well-made, tonally assured film

  by Dan Callahan [Slant Magazine ]

• a brilliant piece of cinema that succeeds at getting into the psyche of a man

  by Edward Douglas [Comingsoon ]

• "Capote" is one gutsy film.

  by Kirk Honeycutt [The Hollywood Reporter ]
• Reviewed by Eric Lurio [Greenwich Village Gazette ]
• Reviewed by Hanh Nguyen [Zap2it ]
• Reviewed by Jack Mathews [New York Daily News ]
• Reviewed by Pam Grady [Reel ]

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