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Critics Consensus: A chilling true crime drama, Foxcatcher offers Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo, and Channing Tatum a chance to shine -- and all three of them rise to the challenge.
Critic Consensus: A chilling true crime drama, Foxcatcher offers Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo, and Channing Tatum a chance to shine -- and all three of them rise to the challenge.
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[Miller] is equally adept at portraying the peculiarities of wrestling here, and how those physical moves -- beautifully choreographed and executed -- sync with deeper psychological currents.
There's just no life in the film: aiming for a tone of studied foreboding, Bennett Miller instead sucks all the energy from his story.
Director Bennett Miller ("Capote," "Moneyball") has a fascinating story here and he knows it.
Watch this film for the performances: Tatum and Ruffalo finding new ground in familiar personas; Carell immersing himself into the mindset of a troubled man ...
Foxcatcher is too cold of a movie to love, but that chilliness is intentional and transfixing, a parable about the darkest corners of the minds of damaged men that dares to whisper instead of shout.
If you're willing to be thrown for a loop, you're in good hands with this medal-worthy cast and crew.
We're not so much watching a series of escalating events racing toward a conclusion as we are treading water in the open ocean, aware that something we can't see could prove lethal at any moment.
Two men become untethered from reality and a third pays the ultimate price in Foxcatcher, a contemplative, chilling meditation on America's sense of owed victory by director Bennett Miller.
Bennett Miller has truly excelled by taking an unconventional look at the story.
As with the approach settled on by Miller, the writers and the performers, the fancy and the high-strung have no place in Foxcatcher. Just raw, as is, cold served style.
The outstanding performances by Carrell and Tatum are powerful through restraint and subtlety. The film's is a marvel of characterisation, tension, atmosphere and cinematic value.
This is a bleak, harrowing slow burn of a film. You know the outcome so the lurch to it becomes almost excruciating to endure. But, in the best way possible.
A story that's tragic at the outset, told by professionals at their craft literally reaching for new heights, makes for exhilarating filmmaking of the highest quality beyond a shadow of a doubt. As some might note, the pace seems slow, but in retrospect the simmer brings forth fully formed human drama. Carell, Tatum and Ruffalo very nearly seem to race to give the best performance and you as judge will be as perplexed as I as to who in fact might have won.
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Oddly neutral and lifeless retelling of the events surrounding the Foxcatcher wrestling team of the 80s. The acting is top notch and takes the film through some slow parts, but its almost documentary style keeps the viewer at a distance to the characters and the events. Even the shocking and tragic ending keeps you somewhat unimpressed, but at least it gets you curious about the real persons and events behind this. The acting performances stand out.
There are some movies out there that could be considered slower-paced than most, and then there are those films where they move at such a snail's pace that the likes of caffeinated drinks and a purposeful mentality is needed before embarking on such a cinematic adventure. "Foxcatcher" is the latter. "Foxcatcher" is a peculiar beast; not only is the legendary comedy star Steve Carrell playing quite possibly his first dark figure, but the film itself is a chilling tale that creeps at a lumbering pace. It isn't quite so slow however that progression occurs within an hour into the movie -- it just so happens that Bennett Miller reveals story progression crumb by crumb. By the time the film begins finalizing the final act, the narrative takes only 3 significant turns, revealing that the plot, in its entirety, is very slim in density. So why a whopping 2 hour and 10 minute running time for such a gaunt plot? Miller crafts the film to have the tone -- cold, haunting, and dreariness -- as its focal point. By the final minutes of the film, Miller successfully engulfs the audiences in a sludge of dread, betrayal, and confusion that's hard to shake off way after the film has come to a close. "Foxcatcher" may not be the most fast-paced movie nor is it the most immersive, but just like "Requiem for a Dream", its subtle tone slithers around -- up the leg, to the neck. It's not quite the greatest movie that has ever hit cinema theaters, but its different approach to convey a dark, dreary, and cold world differ it from many other films.
If a film can have a specific aura, or tone, this film's is "creepy". It is settled into its framework, like it a chill can settle into your bones, and the feeling of uneasiness follows you throughout the story of world class wrestler Mark Schultz's relationship with the world's richest man, John du Pont. This is a film for actors, and the cast does not disappoint, as their characters fill the screen from top to bottom. While this is not a bigger than life production, it tells a story that is indescribably unique, and couldn't have been handled in better hands. Read more at http://www.bluefairyblog.com/blog/2015/3/26/foxcatcher
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