Infamous

Infamous," also very good, got ignored....I'm getting tired of waiting for a great Sandra Bullock movie....I've always found her exceptionally charming on screen;....these moments make the wait worthwhile..... ... Full Review

Or the film might just as legitimately have belonged to the equally cliched (and equally satisfying) genre of celebrity decline. It might, for instance, have been a bittersweet coming-of-age story with a triumphantly happy ending.... ... Full Review

But while the narrative template may be strikingly similar to Capote - both films even sport different versions of the same scenes - Infamous follows a course that is sufficiently different in tone and character to allay fears that this is a carbon copy. ... Full Review

But it's the dynamic between Lee and Capote, thanks to Sandra Bullock and Toby Jones, that stands as the most interesting moments in the film....I like a lot at the beginning of "Infamous....Both of these women's performances are equally strong.... ... Full Review

Infamous" is really quite a good motion picture.....More important, it's just a darned good movie on its own..... ... Full Review

If Capote never existed, then Infamous would probably work as a pretty good movie. I don't think that Infamous is a bad film I can find almost nothing in Infamous that didn't work better in Capote . Toby Jones isn't that good. ... Full Review

It's an accomplished performance....McGrath's shock during the scene when Juliet Stevenson relates how her character, Diana Vreeland, irons her money proves....the surrounds bounce excitingly from channel to channel, score by Rachel Portman is deeply potent....The screenwriter and director, Douglas McGrath, has helmed two respectable literary adaptations ( Emma and Nicholas Nickleby ) and a Cuban Missile crisis comedy so dreadful....asked to carry single-take monologues that would tax the most resourceful a ... Full Review

INFAMOUS is at least as good as CAPOTE;....make two shitty movies about the same thing as well....okay for a nonfiction writer....Jones's astonishing performance.... ... Full Review

Infamous" veers wildly between some very effective high comedy/social satire and intermittently effective melodrama with a special -....Infamous" needlessly condescends to the locals, suggesting the only way a sophisticate like Capote could get through to them was by name-dropping Sinatra and Bogart.....though Craig (who probably dreams of the day he's no longer identified as "the new 007") is quite powerful.....though he's a celebrated stage actor in England -....If he doesn't quite give us Capote's comple ... Full Review

Capote tale suffers in comparison....Writer/director Douglas McGrath is more eager for laughs than his predecessors....Like the younger sibling of an overachieving student, "Infamous" is damned from the start:....making malicious jokes about his outrageous clothing.....When it's time for him to ditch the mincing and earn our sympathy, Jones just gets dull..... ... Full Review