Bang and Debicki are excellent as the dissembling, ill-starred lovers and Sutherland brings gravity and pathos to his cameo as the old magus.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 16, 2025

The Burnt Orange Heresy is a dull, briefly brutal, and uneven adaptation of a Willeford novel.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 27, 2022

There's real tension from the first scene and the chemistry between the two leads is terrific.

Full Review | Jun 4, 2021

A dull ponderance of the art world that is as pretentious as the art world it seeks to deconstruct.

Full Review | Mar 30, 2021

Doesn't lack in plot, themes or attempts to ape Patricia Highsmith's best tales, but its twists prove as routine as its insights into authenticity and forgery on multiple levels.

Full Review | Mar 1, 2021

Regardless of how interested you are in the power of a critic or exactly what makes worthwhile art, The Burnt Orange Heresy is an engaging drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 22, 2021

Not a typical crime drama. The story is fuelled by arrogance, deceit and lies as much as plot, the crime is almost incidental to the interest created by the characters.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 29, 2021

Yet the film never really simmers with the kind of tension required to keep you hooked and, as events progress, it sheds its air of superiority to reveal itself as quite a schlocky thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 21, 2020

It's lively talk, with attractive performances, but you can't help wondering when the thriller end of the bargain is meant to kick in.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2020

A slow-burn noir thriller, this European art-world movie spins a rather densely wordy adventure with a superbly eclectic cast.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 6, 2020

Bang is weirdly listless, and the early spark of passion between him and Debicki gets lost in a muddle of pretentious chatter that lacks the bite to sell itself as consciously self-satirising

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 5, 2020

A complex thriller set in the world of fine art, The Burnt Orange Heresy is no masterpiece but well worth looking at, not least for the exquisitely agonising spectacle of Mick Jagger acting his heart out, if not his lips off.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 2, 2020

Now there's a quality we haven't seen in movies much in 2020: sexy.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 2, 2020

You know that your movie is in trouble when an elfin Mick Jagger pops up as a powerful art dealer and promptly steals the show.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 2, 2020

It's an entertaining and eventful melodrama with some thoughts on art that might put you in mind of Yasmina Reza's stage-play named after the subject.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 29, 2020

It's well put together, fun performances, and could maybe stand the scrutiny of a rewatch.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 29, 2020

The movie keeps threatening a good time only to leave you exhausted long before the end.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 28, 2020

Intrigue ensues, yet somehow never ignites, or convinces.

Full Review | Oct 14, 2020

Giuseppe Capotondi's latest looks at the dark inauthenticity of the art world.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 18, 2020

The Burnt Orange Heresy is a tight, smart mystery built on an unusual premise with great actors who are not overexposed.

Full Review | Sep 15, 2020