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Moneyball (movie)
Review: 'Foxcatcher'
Review: 'Foxcatcher'

Does extreme privilege point, like an arrow, to a sort of rot within the true-blue American spirit? Putting criminal insanity aside for a moment, the answer's a qualified, sorrowful yes in director Bennett Miller's "Foxcatcher," a true-crime drama hailed in many quarters as a modern classic since it debuted six months ago at the Cannes Film Festival. Sometimes you encounter a movie begging to be revisited a decade from now, simply to see which one of you has changed more in the interim. "Foxcatcher" is one of those movies. It's meticulous, fastidiously controlled and a tiny bit enervated. I've seen it twice; it's successful enough in what...