Reviews for this film from our members:
- Rick Aragon @ http://rickscafetexan.blogspot.com/
- Excerpt: Foxcatcher is the fact-based film of this shocking act (of murder), and director Bennett Miller goes to great lengths to make the incoming doom obvious.That may be part of the problem.
- José Arce @ LaButaca.net [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Bennett Miller continúa en un espectacular estado de forma tras las cámaras en su regreso con este aterrador cuento empapado de paranoia, obsesión y un retorcido entendimiento de la defensa de los ideales globales y personales. Steve Carell está colosal.
- Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: A richly developed psychological drama about the fire of ambition in the lives of a gold-medal winning wrestler and a multimillionaire wrestling enthusiast.
- Enrique Buchichio @ Cartelera.com.uy [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Son las dos sobrias y contenidas actuaciones de Channing Tatum y Mark Ruffalo sobre las que se cimenta la gran fuerza emocional de la historia. No es una fuerza emocional declarada ni declamatoria; está escondida en los pequeños detalles, en medio de una tensión que se va construyendo lentamente.
- Sarah D Bunting @ Tomato Nation
- Samuel Castro @ Ochoymedio.info [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Un relato sobre personajes llenos de carencias que a su vez carece de piedad con el público para ser menos moroso en su narración.
- Bill Clark @ From The Balcony
- Excerpt: Featuring three fine performances and intriguing, coldly effective storytelling, Foxcatcher is compulsory viewing for genre fans.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: …a great American story, literary and tragic. If ever a movie had compelling subtext for our time, it’s “Foxcatcher.”
- Edwin Davies @ A Mighty Fine Blog
- Excerpt: If Foxcatcher wasn’t based on real events, it’d work great as an inventive restaging of Billy Wilder’s Sunset Blvd.
- Carlos del Río @ El rincón de Carlos del Río [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Grandes interpretaciones en una historia apasionante, contada de la forma más aburrida posible.
- Jim Dixon @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: “Foxcatcher” inevitably functions as a chilly meditation on the dark underbelly of wealth and inevitable abuse of power that accompanies it. This is a popular theme in American culture, which both reveres and resents wealth. “Citizen Kane,” “Sunset Boulevard” and “Reversal of Fortune” are only a few notable classics that have attacked the same thematic territory, and yes, “Foxcatcher” is that good.
- Billy Donnelly @ This Is Infamous
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: Here, the pursuit of the American Dream is not a friendly competition or a fair fight. It’s a blood sport.
- Candice Frederick @ Reel Talk Online
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Sorrowful and sordid, it oozes bizarre homoeroticism and brutal violence.
- Vadym Grygoriev @ kinoblog.com [Ukrainian]
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: As the events unfold to the inevitable conclusion, there is an anxiety that hangs over the surroundings like a thick fog of fear. Indeed, this rumination transpires not unlike a tale of horror.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: A pensive and unsettling film that defies genre description and keeps you wondering just what the heck sort of film you’re watching.
- Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
- Excerpt: If anyone ever tells you with a straight face that, “My friends call me Eagle…or Golden Eagle,”; run away.
- Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: Though very much Oscar bait, “Foxcatcher” provides a chilly, muted power, and it’s worthwhile to see a trio of actors as we have never seen them before.
- Kristin Dreyer Kramer @ NightsAndWeekends.com
- Donald Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Alan Mattli @ Facing the Bitter Truth [German]
- Excerpt: Simultaneously a subtle, brooding character drama and a troubling parable of the American oligarchy posing as democratic meritocracy.
- Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Simon Miraudo @ Quickflix
- Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
- Excerpt: A fox-y film.
- Pat Mullen @ Cinemablographer
- João Pinto @ Portal Cinema [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: As interpretações do trio de protagonistas são o seu único real apelo.
- [New – 7/2/15] | Nuno Reis @ SciFiWorld Portugal [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Fantástico e arrepiante. E à terceira, não há como negar que além de documentarista Bennett Miller está condenado a ser um dos grande contadores de histórias da América moderna.
- Jamie S. Rich @ DVDTalk
- Excerpt: Miller prefers languid takes, letting the scenes roll out slowly, while keeping his hands out of the muck. It makes Foxcatcher come off as rather self-serious and, quite often, dull. It’s as if Miller wanted to make a high-brow true crime picture, something even Truman Capote would’ve turned his nose up at, because he’s far too good to sully his lens with the blood and sweat that comes from grown men in super tight onesies throwing each other around for the fun of it.
- Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: Great performances leaven a movie that is otherwise dull and boring.
- Tom Santilli @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: Despite good performances from Tatum and Ruffalo especially, Foxcatcher never quite builds into anything, keeping the audience at a distance by giving us a cold shoulder through much of the film.
- Amir Siregar @ Flick Magazine [Indonesian]
- Sarah Ward @ Concrete Playground
- Ron Wilkinson @ Monsters and Critics
- Excerpt: An oft told story is given stirring insight through first rate performances and production.
