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 Robert Mapplethorpe. Documentary director Ondi ...

No one does a livelier job of exposing the interior world of complex personalities than the World of Wonder duo, whose “Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures” achieves entertaining profundity ...

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.

Posted in Film The New Robert Mapplethorpe Biopic Is Ironically Timid The movie barely feels invested in Mapplethorpe’s art, much less in trying to replicate its sensibility.

A renegade Catholic boy raised by conservative parents in Queens, New York, Robert Mapplethorpe transformed some of the most blasphemous subjects on earth — gay sex, Satanism, bondage — into ...

The film thankfully devotes very few of its 108 minutes to the well-documented NEA controversy, instead providing a record of how Mapplethorpe blurred the boundaries between work and life by using ...

But when she exits the film and Mapplethorpe begins to embrace his fluid sexuality and fascination with the BDSM lifestyle, the film gains energy, even as its tragic story arc is always clearly ...

After multiple documentaries about Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-89), there is finally a narrative film on the brash photographer who didn’t blink in his erotic black and white images of black and ...

Review: 'Mapplethorpe' Is Nakedly Dull A bored-seeming Matt Smith plays the famous — and famously provocative — photographer in a plodding film that too-dutifully ticks familiar scenes off the ...

Except when Robert Mapplethorpe’s pictures are on the screen, this film does the seemingly impossible and makes him and Patti Smith, well, kind of boring. Skip to content Skip to site index.

A new exhibition at the Guggenheim museum in New York and a forthcoming film explore Robert Mapplethorpe, the photographer behind some of the 20th century’s most brazen and beautiful images.