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A tense, chilly prestige drama with exceptional performances and a slow-burn sense of dread. It’s less a sports movie than a study of power, loneliness, and masculine fragility, and the craft is strong enough to make the discomfort feel intentional.
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Fri · 2h 14m
Director: Bennett Miller
Starring: Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo
The greatest Olympic Wrestling Champion brother team joins Team Foxcatcher led by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont as they train for the 1988 games in Seoul - a union that leads to unlikely circumstances.
Bennett Miller
Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo
A tense, chilly prestige drama with exceptional performances and a slow-burn sense of dread. It’s less a sports movie than a study of power, loneliness, and masculine fragility, and the craft is strong enough to make the discomfort feel intentional.
Foxcatcher is a rigorously controlled tragedy that turns an Olympic training setup into a study of domination, dependency, and emotional vacancy. Bennett Miller keeps the film distant and measured, which makes the underlying menace feel even more corrosive. The result is less about wrestling than about the ways people pin each other down in private and in public.
The performances are the main event: Steve Carell is unnervingly precise, Channing Tatum strips away his usual charisma, and Mark Ruffalo gives the film its bruised human center. The movie’s restraint may frustrate viewers looking for momentum, but the slow accumulation of unease is exactly the point.
It’s a bleak, beautifully made film that lingers because it refuses easy catharsis. If you respond to serious, adult dramas with strong visual control and a sense of moral unease, this is very much worth your time.
Eli Hayes (4.5★) · 582 likes
The definition of a film that requires a second viewing; my second viewing, yesterday's viewing, shot this into my top ten favorite films of the year. Before, it wasn't even quite in my top fifteen. What an unbelievable display of mastery with regards to the crafts of writing, directing, acting, cinematography and soundtrack/score. Everything about this film, on a technical level (and more than a technical level), is astonishing. I picked up on so many more details during my second… more
Evan (4★) · 401 likes
Foxcatcher is a bit slow, but that doesn't stop it from being a very good film. The performances keep you engaged during the entire run-time. As most of already said, Steve Carell is unrecognizable. He is great as Mr. du Pont. Also Channing Tatum haters, just stop it.
vi (3.5★) · 358 likes
they ain't even catch any foxes
Luke Kane (4.5★) · 308 likes
Have you ever been pinned down by someone and, despite all your resistance, find that you can't free yourself? That no matter how much you strain against your opponent, you're trapped and at the mercy of another? That awful feeling is what Foxcatcher is about. It's what the characters do to each other - literally and figuratively - and it's also what director Bennett Miller (Capote, Moneyball) does to his audience. Based on the true story of an Olympic gold-medalist… more
Xfaxe (4★) · 305 likes
There are some incredible acting in this one! Steve Carell is on another level!
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psychological drama, sports drama, true story, slow burn, bleak, prestige cinema, masculinity, class tension, character study, thriller