Capote Reviews
Las Vegas Weekly
There's an interesting story here, but it's far more likely captured in Capote's book than in this inconsistent film.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Three Movie Buffs
Like Charlize Theron in Monster, Hoffman delivers an Oscar worthy performance, in a non-Oscar worthy film.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Murphy's Movie Reviews
I am aware that virtually every critic in America if not on the planet has lauded Hoffman's portrayal of the author and that I am in the minority. Watching Hoffman I felt something primal was missing from his interpretation ... To my mind, Hoffman's work
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| Original Score: C+
Slant Magazine
What's missing here is the reason anyone would want to watch a film about Capote: his writing talent.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Movie Reviews in Croatian
Dull. "The Tiny Terror" is presented as uninteresting and a watered-down passive-aggressive writer for our PC consumption.
eFilmCritic.com
Hoffman tries, but mainly just gets the surface of Capote.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Cinema Signals
Hoffman's convincing characterization with wispy tonality of voice, effeminate manner, and social wit is not accompanied by a narrative content to match.
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| Original Score: 3/5
TheMovieChicks.com
Philip Seymour Hoffman's performance and the subject matter are worth watching... but the movie's intensity never reaches the dramatic level of the story.
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| Original Score: 3/5
tonymedley.com
A biopic of his life could make an interesting 90 minute movie. A film about a short period he spent writing his famous book makes a slow, uninteresting 110 minute movie.
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| Original Score: 5/10
Boulder Weekly
...too willing to reduce its subject to one defining moment. Neither Hoffman nor Miller gives you anything to read between the lines.
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
At the center of this treatment as well as its human subject, there is a coldness around the heart.
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Suggests rather moralistically that Capote's cold-blooded behavior contributed to his artistic and physical decline, as if he could have been saved by Dr. Phil or a hug.
| Original Score: 3/4
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
At once unmistakable and over-calculated, Hoffman's performance, like the movie, feels like an act.
Film Freak Central
Philip Seymour Hoffman disappears into the title role, yet the movie is fundamentally superfluous
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| Original Score: 2/4
Film Freak Central
Sexy in a ghoulish way when it fails to be sexy in a revelatory way.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Hollywood Report Card
Starts w/great promise, but eventually imprisons in the same languishing peril suffered by its main character. Still, Catherine Keener is smashing as Nelle Harper Lee.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Entertainment Insiders
Restrained in its presentation and dogged in its attention to detail, this is one terrific film with several outstanding performances highlighted by Hoffman in the lead role.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Top CriticA meditation on the artist's obligations to the art and to society and lines that blur when you cross them.
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| Original Score: 5/5
