Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
With never-before seen home video, this film recounts the paranoid downward spiral of John E. du Pont and the murder of Olympic wrestler Dave Schultz.
Team Foxcatcher is a solid true-crime documentary that benefits from exclusive home video footage giving it a degree of intimacy and access rarely seen in such cases. However, it largely treads familiar ground for those who saw Bennett Miller's 2014 narrative film Foxcatcher, and the documentary format feels somewhat conventional — talking heads interspersed with archival material. The ending, covering the murder and its aftermath, feels rushed and anticlimactic given the build-up, failing to deliver the emotional or analytical payoff the story demands. The cinematography is functional rather than distinctive. Overall a competent but unremarkable entry in the true-crime documentary space.