With dyed hair and tattoos, Craig nails the incredible complexity of a man who juggles gentleness with violence. The relationship between Capote and Perry is overtly moving and there was a big lump in my throat as the final chapters played out.
- Urban Cinefile Critics, Urban Cinefile, October 18, 2008
- , In Film Australia, June 21, 2007
To recreate the gossipy Manhattan arena that Capote navigated with such ease and documented with such malice, you need dialogue that rings like scatter-shot and the film's script, written by its director Douglas McGrath, doesn't have it.
- Sandra Hall, Sydney Morning Herald, June 02, 2007
Toby Jones defies the odds with an extraordinary impersonation of the author in Douglas McGrath's Infamous.
- James Christopher, Times [UK], February 05, 2007
British actor Toby Jones plays Capote and certainly looks the part -- more so than Hoffman. It's a very good performance and Jones deserves his time in the spotlight.
- Peter Bradshaw, Guardian [UK], January 20, 2007
A strange one this - Capote is a superior picture but Toby Jones is the superior Capote.
- Richard Luck, Film4, January 15, 2007
While less beguiling than Capote, Infamous remains a soulful and searching portrayal of the writer, carried with immense charm and vivacity by its leading man.
- Will Lawrence, Empire Magazine, January 04, 2007
Tugs at the heartstrings, chills to the bone.
- Stella Papamichael, BBC, December 30, 2006
Why did they go ahead anyway? Did they believe that an immense Capote audience was hungering for two films about him?
- Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic, November 03, 2006
All that was painted grey in Capote becomes black-and-white here.
- Dave Calhoun, Time Out, October 30, 2006
Two good films about one subject [are] much better than a lot of bad films about different things.
- Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper, October 17, 2006
Jones gets everything -- the gestures, the generosity, the mean streak, the bending of the ear to recitals of woe, whether across a lunch table or a prison cell.
- Anthony Lane, New Yorker, October 17, 2006
The film benefits from three splendid performances: Toby Jones as Capote, an aggressively gay elf exuding a tosspot charm; Sandra Bullock as Nelle Harper Lee, a novelist who uses spoken words with quiet precision, and Daniel Craig as Perry.
- Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal, October 13, 2006
Infamous covers just enough new ground to be interesting, but it will always suffer by comparison.
- Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel, October 13, 2006
It's a stellar cast, but you can't help but lament the bad timing.
- Claudia Puig, USA Today, October 13, 2006
No matter how noble the competitor, coming in second in a contest always feels like a lesser effort.
- Peter Howell, Toronto Star, October 13, 2006
[With Hoffman], it was easy to see Capote as someone truly extraordinary, perhaps a genius. Toby Jones... doesn't have that quality, though he does offer something almost as good: Watching him it's easy to believe he's really Truman Capote.
- Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle, October 13, 2006
Even judged on its own, though, McGrath's movie feels slightly misjudged.
- Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger, October 13, 2006
Infamous is quietly stolen by Sandra Bullock as Harper Lee.
- Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times, October 13, 2006
The problem with Infamous isn't that it revisits Capote's turf -- it's that it does the same things well, and leaves the same unsatisfying holes.
- Tasha Robinson, AV Club, October 13, 2006
