Bennett Miller

I had to think about how to review this film. It's a story I certainly knew nothing about. It's a very slow build and I was waiting for the other shoe to drop. I knew there was a murder but right until the end I did not know which brother it would be. The acting is fantastic but I felt the film was just slightly too long - 20 mins less would have been better. And of course, because it is a true story, you don't get the easy explanations as to what drove the final act of violence - jealousy, psychosis? No easy answers as in fiction. Conclusion - an interesting film but flawed.… (mehr)

Truman Capote researches and writes In Cold Blood.

Try as they might to force a dilemma onto him, Capote is just not half as interesting as the people he wrote about. And, sure, a lot of those people are in this movie, but they only really come across when the dialog is taken straight out of Capote's novel. I'm not clear about the ethics of using Capote's dialog in his own biopic (without crediting him). Capote is clearly presented as an unreliable source. And yet the strongest parts of the film are taken straight from his book, without any hints to the audience of what their source is. Strange. I guess I had a lot of bad things to say about it, but really, it's a perfectly all right movie. Very nice to look at. And Philip Seymour Hoffman is awesome.

Concept: D
Story: B
Characters: C
Dialog: B
Pacing: C
Cinematography: A
Special effects/design: A
Acting: A
Music: D

Enjoyment: C plus

GPA: 2.6/4… (mehr)

A pro baseball team is put together using statistics.

Perfectly harmless. Never unpleasant. Pointless. Even if I liked baseball, I couldn't imagine caring at all about this stuff. If you've ever seen any movie that's based on a true story, you already know this movie's entire plot. The only entertaining character mysteriously disappears early in the movie.

Concept: D
Story: D
Characters: D
Dialog: B
Pacing: C
Cinematography: B
Special effects/design: B
Acting: B
Music: C

Enjoyment: C

GPA: 2.1/4… (mehr)