it's informative and holds one's attention with enough of a likable cast and intriguing climactic reveals to recontextualize what we have been looking at the entire time. In that sense, it's almost like a cinematic painting
Claes Bang, Guy Pearce, and Vicky Krieps are terrific in WWII-era art forgery drama with a good deal of truth on its side and intriguing themes of what really matters when it comes to art and how we perceive it
an engaging tale of artful imitation; this once notorious, now nearly forgotten story easily captures and holds our interest, and Friedkin's smooth and unostentatious direction never gets in the way of the material
a fresh and fascinating story to tell; The film works primarily because the story itself is so captivating and because Guy Pearce's career-capping performance makes Han van Meegeren endlessly fascinating