05. Foxcatcher

Director: Bennett Miller

Release date: January 29, 2015

Knowing the grim outcome of the true story behind Foxcatcher casts Bennett Miller’s tense and chilling drama in an atmosphere of dread. This tragic story of obsession is hard to watch but impossible to turn off.

Screenwriters E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman have a lot of juicy material to work with in this unsettling retelling of the chain of events that led to the slaying of Olympic gold-medal winning American wrestler Dave Schultz. A multimillionaire forever in his mother’s shadow. An ambitious wrestler forever in his brother’s. Rich in subtext and subtlety, Miller locates the most fascinating aspects of this Shakespearian real-life melodrama. And its three central actors give their finest performances.