The problem with Infamous isn't that it revisits Capote's turf -- it's that it does the same things well, and leaves the same unsatisfying holes.
– Tasha Robinson,
AV Club,
13 Oct 2006
fresh:
Jones gets everything -- the gestures, the generosity, the mean streak, the bending of the ear to recitals of woe, whether across a lunch table or a prison cell.
– Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
17 Oct 2006
fresh:
Two good films about one subject [are] much better than a lot of bad films about different things.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
17 Oct 2006
rotten:
All that was painted grey in Capote becomes black-and-white here.
– Dave Calhoun,
Time Out,
30 Oct 2006
rotten:
Why did they go ahead anyway? Did they believe that an immense Capote audience was hungering for two films about him?