Aka the other movie made about how Truman Capote researched for and wrote In Cold Blood and emerged with a classic and an inability to finish another book for the rest of his life. It had the bad luck of being simultaneously produced with and then overshadowed by the movie Capote, for which the late great Philip Seymour Hoffmann got his Oscar. Since then, I've come across a few people telling me that Toby Jones was the better Truman Capote and "Infamous" the better movie, so I finally got around to watching it. Overall verdict: it's good, and having both movies at one's disposal makes for an intriguing compare and contrast on how you can approach the same basic material, but if we're comparing, I do think Capote is the better movie. Obviously imo, your mileage will vary, etc. That said, there are a couple of impressive aspects to Infamous, I'm glad to have watched the movie, and I'll talk both about where it scores and overshoots and my personal reasons of preference below the cut.

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