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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

By the time the film reaches Mapplethorpe’s untimely end (dead from AIDS-related causes at 42, a posthumous, Jesse Helms-fomented backlash on the horizon) a provocative icon has been reduced to ...