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Mapplethorpe
Directed by
Ondi Timoner
2019
1h 42m
Not Rated
Drama
,
Biography
,
History
6.2
34%
53%
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A look at the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe from his rise to fame in the 1970s to his untimely death in 1989.
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Cast of Mapplethorpe
Matt Smith
Robert Mapplethorpe
Marianne Rendón
Patti Smith
John Benjamin Hickey
Sam Wagstaff
Brandon Sklenar
Edward Mapplethorpe
McKinley Belcher III
Milton Moore
Mark Moses
Harry Mapplethorpe
Hari Nef
Tinkerbelle
Carolyn McCormick
Joan Mapplethorpe
Brian Stokes Mitchell
Father Stack
Karan Oberoi
Emilio Acquavella
Kerry Butler
Holly Solomon
Tina Benko
Sandy Daley
Rotimi Paul
Ken Moody
Kenya Brome
Second Assistant
Mickey O'Hagen
Tina Summerlin
Karlee Perez
Lisa Lyon
Christina Rouner
Janet Kardin
Anthony Michael Lopez
Jack Fritscher
Thomas Philip O'Neill
David Croland
Jason Lopez
Tom Baril
David J. Cork
The Catch
Mapplethorpe Reviews
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
A conventional biopic of renegade photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (a stranded Matt Smith) is a contradiction in terms, the pallid result feeling like an outline for a movie that no one actually made.
Observer
Rex Reed
You go away feeling soiled and confused, disliking and distrusting him more than you did going in.
Washington Post
Mark Jenkins
If the new biopic "Mapplethorpe" presents this transgressive vision is vivid detail - and it does - that's only because it includes so many of Mapplethorpe's pictures. Everything else in the film is timid and pedestrian.
New York Post
Sara Stewart
There are two things that make the flawed "Mapplethorpe" worth a watch: Matt Smith's dedicated performance, and a reverent inclusion of so much of the artist's work.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
There's a way to frame great art and the problematic artists who make it, but "Mapplethorpe" hasn't figured it out.
RogerEbert.com
Nick Allen
A stunningly drab take on the life and legacy of a photographer who merged pornography with grace, Mapplethorpe doesn't have an artistic signature of its own, so much as a name it doesn't live up to.
San Diego Reader
Matthew Lickona
How do you hew so close to biopic conventions -a dutiful recitation of this event happened, this fame arrived, that tragedy struck, etc - when you're dealing with an artist whose whole raison d'etre was finding beauty at the extreme edges of things?
indieWire
David Ehrlich
Smith's performance hints at tightly coiled depths that the movie skates by, and his character becomes easier to resent even when he begins to get sick.
Chicago Reader
Marissa De La Cerda
Another entry in the list of biopics (like Bohemian Rhapsody) that reduce the career of an iconoclast to a formulaic biopic that refuses to scratch beneath the surface.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
It's Mapplethorpe Vanilla.
4Columns
Melissa Anderson
Ultimately the movie, with its gimcrack period pageantry, cannot escape its essential conundrum: that it is subordinate, inferior to the still images that festoon it.
NPR
Andrew Lapin
A rare misfire for [Timoner], a case where the filmmaker's career-long immersion in prickly subcultures and extreme personalities wasn't enough to wrestle down one of the most extreme of them all.
Los Angeles Times
Gary Goldstein
[D]irector Ondi Timoner... has crafted a stylish, evocative, absorbing snapshot of creative expression, artistic ambition, sexuality and eroticism.
Refinery29
Anne Cohen
Iconic subject, powerful leading performance, but weighed down by a Wikipedia-entry vehicle that seeks to show everything, and as a result, speeds past the moments that would give it real emotional depth.
New York Times
Glenn Kenny
[It's] most alive when it's putting its subject's pictures on the screen, which it does often. And should have done more, because the movie is otherwise as timid as its subject was bold.
Slate
Lena Wilson
This zoetrope-esque blurring ultimately lends Mapplethorpe its edge, as audiences will feel unable to tear themselves away from its protagonist's lavish self-destruction.
Flavorwire
Jason Bailey
Matt Smith and Marianne Rendónare convincing as Mapplethorpe and Smith, but their efforts aside, what a waste.
TheWrap
Dan Callahan
The major thing that Mapplethorpe has in its favor is that the film is afraid of neither the life nor the work of the notorious photographer.
Hollywood Reporter
Keith Uhlich
[Smith's] work, sadly, is continuously undermined by everything surrounding him, beginning with a script, written by Timoner and Mikko Alanne, that frustratingly sticks to the then-this-happened conventions of a standard biopic.
Variety
Peter Debruge
To her credit, Timoner doesn't shy away from the hardcore bits...but neither does she capture what made the radical photographer tick.
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