Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
2016
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- Smith is effortlessly good, but his efforts are wasted in this numbing, by-the-numbers biopic, and the real Mapplethorpe's striking visual creations are blunted by a middling, timid presentation. Directed by Ondi Timoner, who made the excellent rock documentary DIG! (2004), Mapplethorpe is a surprising dud.
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Mar 1, 2019 · “Mapplethorpe” is defined by cliche biopic problems: a chronological approach and emphasis on facts that makes it a slow bore, as informative as the film might be for newcomers. It starts with him as a young man leaving the confines of the stuffy Pratt Institute to become a hustling artist in 1970s New York City.
Feb 28, 2019 · “Mapplethorpe,” directed by Ondi Timoner, is a fictionalized biography of the photographer that is most alive when it’s putting its subject’s pictures on the screen, which it does often.
- Ondi Timoner
- Glenn Kenny
- 102 min
Mar 1, 2019 · 34% Tomatometer 56 Reviews 53% Audience Score Fewer than 50 Ratings A chronicle of the career of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, from his rise to fame in the 1970s to his death in 1989 at the...
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- Matt Smith
- Ondi Timoner
- Biography, Drama, LGBTQ+
Apr 23, 2018 · A superb performance by former Doctor Who Matt Smith is the only reason to see Ondi Timoner’s biopic about controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.
Mar 1, 2019 · After the rousing but sanitized-for-PG-13 Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, get ready for a PG-13-at-heart portrait of the aggressively transgressive gay photographer Robert Mapplethorpe...
- Senior Movie Critic
Apr 23, 2018 · Film Review: ‘Mapplethorpe’. In her scripted debut, doc director Ondi Timoner dulls the edge of one of the 20th century's most controversial artists, queer photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. By...
Feb 28, 2019 · Although the fairly straightforward biopic “Mapplethorpe” may not break as much new ground as did its controversial subject — famed photographer Robert Mapplethorpe — director Ondi Timoner, who...
