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Film Legal Eliza Dushku On ‘Mapplethorpe’ Movie, Year Of Reckoning, Spielberg, & Healing. By Dominic Patten. Dominic Patten. Executive Editor, Legal, Labor & Politics @DeadlineDominic ...

“Mapplethorpe” (2018) is the newest biopic starring Matt Smith (of “Doctor Who” fame) as Robert Mapplethorpe, an iconic photographer of the 1970s whose subjects ranged from flowers to friends to an ...

Ironically, this film’s principal competition is “Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures,” a 2016 documentary that zooms in on the artist’s craving for fame.

The 33-year-old is currently starring in “Vanity Fair” at Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., and he just made his major film debut in movie Mapplethorpe.

Matt Smith gets better as Mapplethorpe as the film goes on but the acting overall is too uneven. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 42°F. Friday, March 14th 2025 E-Edition.

The film’s problems start with the portrayal of Patti Smith. The acclaimed singer/songwriter, poet and artist lived with Mapplethorpe from 1967 to 1972, serving as his romantic companion, muse ...

Director Ondi Timoner's film manages to accomplish the unimaginable: it makes photographer Robert Mapplethorpe dull, writes film critic Seam Burns.

The film depicts Mapplethorpe — at least, at the height of his fame — as a narcissist with a gluttonous need for the spotlight, and a callous indifference to the concerns, ...

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 ...

A bored-seeming Matt Smith plays the famous — and famously provocative — photographer in a plodding film that too-dutifully ticks familiar scenes off the Great Artist Biopic checklist.

You leave 'Mapplethorpe' feeling soiled and confused, disliking and distrusting the man and the artist more than you did going in. Search for: Submit. ... The film begins in 1969, ...