While the acting is mostly impressive, the ending of the film leaves much to be desired as screenwriters E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman's script simply flutters to a close without much of an impact.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 1, 2017

In the back hour, the music quietly turns the screws, and Miller stops letting the air in, and I realized that a knot had formed in my chest.

| Jun 18, 2016

[Miller] is equally adept at portraying the peculiarities of wrestling here, and how those physical moves -- beautifully choreographed and executed -- sync with deeper psychological currents.

| Dec 11, 2015

It imitates deliberately the pace of wrestling where nothing happens for ages, bar imperceptible shuffling and nudging, until suddenly someone wins.

| Jan 16, 2015

It is, in many ways, beautifully made, giving its scenes the time to unfold, holding its shots patiently, showing, not telling. And the performances live up to this approach.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 9, 2015

Tatum is on searing form, and Carrell really knocks it out of the park with his first straight dramatic role.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 9, 2015

Foxcatcher is brilliantly acted and extremely well crafted in a wintry, slow burning way but has an emptiness at its core.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 8, 2015

It is tautly directed, deftly written, thoroughly gripping and offers psychological heft as well as sublime performances all round.

| Jan 8, 2015

A movie that appears to be about wrestling but in fact is a disturbing, testosterone-rich tour of the inadequacies of an American billionaire and his athletic protégé.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 8, 2015

It's not much fun, by the end. But golly: by my lights, it's a pretty perfectly-made, carefully crafted, well-acted, engaging film that is doing far more than meets the eye.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 8, 2015

Another dramatic triumph for Bennett Miller, though it is his toughest and least glamorous outing yet. A sad and horrible story, expertly and compellingly told.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 8, 2015

A true crime drama with a twist.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 8, 2015

An exhilaratingly breathless experience.

| Jan 6, 2015

There's just no life in the film: aiming for a tone of studied foreboding, Bennett Miller instead sucks all the energy from his story.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 5, 2015

Director Bennett Miller ("Capote," "Moneyball") has a fascinating story here and he knows it.

| Original Score: B | Dec 19, 2014

Art can shape the truth in ways that resonate beyond the obvious. Regrettably, the truth-shaping here grapples for significance, without any apparent aim.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 18, 2014

Watch this film for the performances: Tatum and Ruffalo finding new ground in familiar personas; Carell immersing himself into the mindset of a troubled man ...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 18, 2014

If you're willing to be thrown for a loop, you're in good hands with this medal-worthy cast and crew.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 18, 2014

The movie's bouts are Hobbesian-nasty, brutish, and short- and who wins has little or nothing to do with the Olympic virtues preached every four years. By the end, it's evident that the filmmakers feel the same way about the American class system.

| Dec 5, 2014

Carell is immersed in the role, completely convincing. Tatum also is outstanding.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 4, 2014