Geoffrey Rush so excels at playing real-life figures... that one welcomes the very idea of him as sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti.

| Mar 5, 2020

Stop me if you've heard this one before (no, seriously. stop me). A depraved creative genius is on a quest to find artistic value in living, treating everyone around 'him' like sh*t in the process.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 27, 2018

It's always interesting to ask artists how they know their work is finished. Whatever else goes on this "Final Portrait," Tucci captures that struggle perfectly.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 19, 2018

But the magic of the film lies in [Stanley] Tucci's eye for a sense of place - Paris in the Sixties - and while the scenes in Giacometti's studio are all blacks and grays, there are shining moments of color that sparkle.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 19, 2018

Working from his own screenplay, Stanley Tucci (best known as an actor) delivers a character study that's low on character development.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 13, 2018

This movie is, literally, about watching paint dry - but Tucci and the cast find a world of detail and nuance.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 11, 2018

The rare biopic of a visual artist that considers the dilemma of the art more seriously than it considers the drama of the life.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 6, 2018

The story doesn't amount to much more than a hill of beans but Tucci manages to make his rumination on the life of an artist slyly amusing and believable.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 5, 2018

We get a vivid image of Giacometti, but after a time the film leaves us starving for some variety, too.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 5, 2018

Tucci successfully banishes...cliches in a finely observed character study that possesses the ring of careworn, unprettified truth.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 4, 2018

As a film, it's well-made and the performances are fine, but it feels slight and thin and inconsequential - quite the opposite of the work Alberto Giacometti left behind.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 30, 2018

"Final Portrait" is barely 90 minutes long, which is about right, and several of those minutes are wordless - patient and observant of the artist's surroundings, inquisitive regarding what Giacometti is trying to will into being.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 29, 2018

Final Portrait does an excellent job of capturing the anxiety, the malaise, and distraction that comes from wanting to create something.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 29, 2018

This movie is a meticulous dossier of the artistic process by one man who created it and another man who lived through it. Not your usual bill of fare at the movies, but well worth the patience to make it pay off.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 28, 2018

"Final Portrait" is basically just an anecdote about a painting.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 28, 2018

A patient, un-presuming 90 minutes that never undertakes being more than the sum of its parts - more baguette than glossy, sugar-crowned croquembouche.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 23, 2018

Tucci takes our collective urge to excuse bad behavior in the name of art, a topic we desperately need to consider right now, but he doesn't really put it under a microscope to see why that happens or how that relationship works.

| Mar 23, 2018

The film's inexplicably grayish palette doesn't do the artist or the artwork any favors, and the action, which mostly takes place in Giacometti's plaster sculpture-strewn studio, is stagey.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 23, 2018

An apt tribute to both the artist and art itself.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 23, 2018

An involving examination of the creative process itself, of how difficult it can be to move forward with artistic enterprises no matter how gifted you are or how much regard the world holds you in.

| Mar 22, 2018