The other-and possibly greater-Capote pic about the geneiss of In Cold Blood

This worthy second biopic of Truman Capote starts not with a bloodbath, but a cocktail.

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.

A big city socialite and raconteur meets the small town community reeling from the recent grizzly murders of a family of four in the dazzling and involving Infamous.