Infamous is a thoughtful, emotional and oftentimes hysterical re-telling of Truman Capote's life-altering experience in Kansas. It might actually be better than that other Capote movie.

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Yes, it's true. Although it reaped deserved accolades and an Oscar win for its star, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote keeps you somewhat at arm's length, as you watch Truman Capote go through his agonizing journey to writing his one and only masterpiece, In Cold Blood. Infamous, however, wears its heart on…

Through no fault of its own -- they were filmed at the same time -- Infamous follows Capote to the multiplex a year later with British actor Toby Jones trying to fill the Oscar-winning footprints of Philip Seymour Hoffman as literary gadfly Truman Capote. Jones looks more like the small, impish Capote than Hoffman does -- he has the nasal whine down pat -- but his performance fails to cut as deep into the complexities of the man. Neither does the movie. Director Douglas McGrath, who adapted the…