Wonderful, deeply moving, and best of all TRUE !

Rating: 9/10 (11 July 2015)

This is a deeply moving, true story that deserves Academy nods for the film, the script, and Helen Mirren's performance. The downside is Renolds -- was there ever a more vapid, uninspired actor in the history of cinema? His "obsession" seems to be operating beneath fistfuls of Prosac.
What makes this film rise above the by-the-number court room quest for justice is the exquisitely textured and deftly rendered back-story of Mirren's family.
The venerable screenwriter William Goldman said something like: the ending of a movie is critical. Give the audience the ending they want, but not in the way they expect it.
The dictum holds true here, because, after all, we all know how it ends, don't we? It's a famous painting that many of us have seen dozens of times. But the creators have chosen to give us an ending the focuses on character and adds exquisite resonance and tenderness.
Whenever I see Weinstein's name attached to a film, I can anticipate a cut-above. This is to a large degree a Hollywood film about art -- but it's distinctive for being arty as well.