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2005 |
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DRAMA
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US |
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C |
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110 |
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PRO Reviews
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| | One cannot write about this film without tossing superlatives in the direction of Philip Seymour Hoffman, whose performance will earn him an Oscar nomination. Hoffman doesn't merely imitate Capote. He inhabits him with an intensity that demands acknowledgement from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Catherine Keener, Chris Cooper, and Clifton Collins Jr. offer support, but this is Hoffman's movie from start to finish. Underrated for most of his career, this role will allow him to take his turn in the spotlight. | | | (James Berardinelli, Reelviews) | | Capote is a film of uncommon strength and insight, about a man whose great achievement requires the surrender of his self-respect. Philip Seymour Hoffman's precise, uncanny performance as Capote doesn't imitate the author so much as channel him, as a man whose peculiarities mask great intelligence and deep wounds. | | | (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times) | | Hoffman has two jobs here. One is to take on the look, voice, and mannerisms that are so well-known, thanks to Capote's tireless self-promotion on the talk show circuit. In that aspect, the actor is so spot on it's almost spooky. This is no mere imitation; Hoffman inhabits the character as if he were wearing a second skin. The actor's other job, which he fills with a master's grace, is to find the humanity inherent in a man whose ambition is so raw that at times he appears to lose all sense of loyalty, empathy, and proportion. Capote is not always a likeable fellow, and the film is not without its flaws. The supporting cast is wonderful and the film is a triumph of set and costume design, as Miller evocatively re-creates the early '60s of both Capote's sophisticated urban milieu and the homey, rural Midwest environs that he finds himself in. But the movie's pacing is slow and there is an odd distance to it. Though Hoffman is in nearly every scene, he is not in all of them, and the film only feels completely alive when he's on screen. But maybe that's appropriate. Capote was no doubt certainly at his most alive during those years. In Cold Blood was the apex of his career. He never scaled such heights again. This film pays tribute to that moment with a grand performance by an actor similarly at the top of his game. | | | (Pam Grady, Reel.com) | | An intelligent film that is definitely worth catching. | | | (Matthew Bond, Mail on Sunday) | |
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Harper Lee: Catherine Keener
