Hoffman's Oscar-winning performance is the main reason to watch this biographical drama. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 28, 2025

Hoffman goes beyond mimic to inhabit the contradictory soul under the fey, mannered skin of the social creature who is most at home holding court in New York cocktail parties.

| Dec 17, 2022

Capote fails to treat the most pressing issues-above all, what is it about American life that produces this "senseless" homicidal violence?

| Feb 15, 2021

As Perry Smith, Clifton Collins, Jr. is particularly strong in revealing a killer whose path may have been chosen for him.

| Original Score: 4.0/4.0 | Sep 4, 2020

Philip Seymour Hoffman gives a mesmerizing take on a tortured soul who many still regard as one of America's greatest writers.

| May 7, 2020

Capote is about the snake. Perfecting his scenes play like therapy sessions, with a homoerotic undercurrent, and they go to the core of journalism's dark art.

| Oct 17, 2019

Hoffman doesn't just act like Truman Capote; he is Truman Capote.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 5, 2019

The film burdensomely lugs around its single, grand thematic idea (namely how a writer is in lure to, but ultimately exploits, their real-life inspiration or subject matter).

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 27, 2019

Capote is the only movie I know of that comes close to suggesting successfully what the complex process of creating a literary work actually looks like.

| Aug 21, 2018

As Capote, Philip Seymour Hoffman is in complete control of his effects... No other actor has the ability to laugh at his own jokes and be so appallingly funny.

| Aug 1, 2018

An extraordinary performance by Philip Seymour Hoffman lays bare the man who sold his soul for one hell of a story.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 11, 2018

It's the acting that sings, especially when Hoffman duets with luminous Catherine Keener, the lady with the loveliest laugh in film. Hoffman's writer is a self-serving egoist; Keener's a restrained, wise soul.

| Jan 16, 2018

Phillip Seymour Hoffman must be nominated for his uncanny portrayal of Truman Capote. It's frightening and fascinating.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 5, 2018

Unfortunately, by the end of it, Capote isn't the only one who wants to turn to drink.

| Sep 26, 2017

It's a bravura one-man-show that feels somehow oddly empty, as if the void that existed in Capote himself is made manifest on the screen. The film does, however, pose some interesting questions about whether art is above morality. It's a moot question.

| Aug 24, 2017

Its power comes from the slow, steady build to the execution of Perry Smith, the man half-responsible for the murders of a farming family of four, and what that death does to Capote.

| Jul 11, 2016

Miller and Futterman underscore the idea that what Capote's achievement does to the story of Hickock and Smith and the Clutter killings is to remove it from the actual world and place it in a literary one.

| Feb 29, 2016

Aims for starkness but ends up as tastefulness

| Sep 1, 2009

The Passion of Truman Capote

| May 17, 2008

Hoffman tries, but mainly just gets the surface of Capote.

| Original Score: C | Jan 31, 2008