BFI London Film Festival 2014

Foxcatcher is refreshingly unique. Whether it’s good is something that still needs wrestling over.

Like the slow rhythmic tapping on the drumskin, Damian Chazelle’s exhaustively brilliant drama begins as a quiet character study, slowly works in its astonishing acting components as an accompanying beat, before exploding into a bloodied knuckle crescendo of a finale which ranks as one of the very best performed, edited, and emotionally stimulating scenes in recent memory.

“The Drop” is the film marks the final performance of a talent prematurely snatched from us, the brilliant James Gandolfini.