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Mapplethorpe

2018

Ondi Timoner

Matt Smith, Hari Nef, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Mark Moses ...

5.1

38

Drama A look at the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe from his rise to fame in the 1970s to his untimely death in 1989.

	Author	Review
United States	Gary Goldstein Los Angeles Times	"A stylish, evocative, absorbing snapshot of creative expression, artistic ambition, sexuality and eroticism (...) The narrative capably moves through many key stages and moments"	POS
United States	Keith Uhlich The Hollywood Reporter	"This is, in abstract, a bold and brilliant performance (...) Smith never personally steps wrong (...) But his work, sadly, is continuously undermined by everything surrounding him"	NEU
United States	Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"A timid biopic of a bold photographer (...) 'Mapplethorpe' does something I thought impossible: It makes Smith and Mapplethorpe kind of boring."	NEG
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Timoner doesn’t shy away from the hardcore bits (...) but neither does she capture what made the radical photographer tick."	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"The tension between creative talent and moral compromise — a rich theme for a film — is never explored by Timoner (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Nick Allen rogerebert.com	"'Mapplethorpe' doesn’t have an artistic signature of its own, so much as a name it doesn’t live up to (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG

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