Quartile rating: 7/10 · 1 rating
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.
Foxcatcher is defined above all by its extraordinary performances — Carell's transformative, deeply unsettling turn as du Pont is genuinely exceptional, matched by Tatum and Ruffalo's restrained, physical work. Bennett Miller's cinematography is strikingly cold and deliberately paced, using muted palettes and oppressive framing to build dread. The plot, rooted in true events, is compelling but episodic and slow to coalesce, and the ending — while historically tragic — arrives somewhat abruptly without fully earned emotional catharsis. Novelty is moderate: the film has a distinctive, suffocating atmosphere but the biographical sports drama form it inhabits is familiar, and its strengths lie in execution rather than singular conception.