Review of Mapplethorpe (2019) by Ty Burr for Boston Globe — 06 Mar 2019
Maybe if Mapplethorpe hadn’t been commissioned by the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, it would have been a batter movie. As it is, this sour, undernourished biopic is a disappointment just shy of a disaster — a portrait of a boundary-destroying artist that stays well within the safe borders of convention.
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This review of Mapplethorpe (2019) was written by Ty Burr and published by Boston Globe on 06 Mar 2019.
Mapplethorpe has generally received mixed reviews.
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