Works really well as a farce, with characters constantly making bizarre, wrong decisions. Works slightly less well as an insightful family drama, but it's impressive that it works as both at all, I think a testament to the acting and the easy chemistry that these people have with each other.

Visually and aurally beautiful, and there's a bunch of great performances, but it's slow, verging on boring, and a bit disjointed. Like what was up with those space pirates? It doesn't quite nail the Malickian 'don't think about the plot, just enjoy the inner monologue / poetry in space' feel, and the plot itself is quite flimsy, so it ends up being a bit of a nothing film in the end, expected more from Gray.

I don't really care about baseball and have seen like two games in my life, so it's testament to the acting, the writing, and the mood (enhanced by a great score and soundtrack) in this that it gripped me for just over two hours. Found Foxcatcher a bit of a snooze but definitely should get around to Capote one day.