★★★☆☆ “People forget, especially the young.” These words, uttered by Maria Altmann (Dame Helen Mirren) in the Holocaust-inspired film “Woman in Gold,” perfectly encapsulate the film’s central motifs ...

Gustav Klimt may have been celebrated for his gilded portraits of elegant Austrian ladies, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the same approach suits “Woman in Gold,” director Simon Curtis ...

"Woman in Gold" has a rich story to tell. The true account of Maria Altmann's fight to reclaim a famed Gustav Klimt painting of her aunt, "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I," first stolen by the ...

Since "Woman in Gold" is an historical as well as a biographical drama, viewers might reasonably wonder how much of what they saw in the film is historically accurate.

Take a complex legal issue like the provenance of an art object, then throw in Helen Mirren and the Nazis as the hero and villains, and you have the dull and simplified tale of Woman in Gold ...

Based on the true story of the late Maria Altmann (Helen Mirren), a Holocaust survivor who lived in Los Angeles, Woman In Gold is one such extraordinary tale. Together with young lawyer Randol ...

If anything — clichés to one side — Woman in Gold is more cinematically adventurous than many of its critically acclaimed brethren. Is it a great movie? No. Few films of this sort are.

Helen Mirren plays a Jewish woman from whom the Nazis stole a famous painting. Is it schmaltzy or substantive? Owen Gleiberman gives a verdict.

Alex Cohen talks with lawyer Randy Schoenberg about the film "Woman in Gold," based on the real-life legal battle to recover paintings by Gustav Klimt stolen by Nazis.

Film Review: ‘Woman in Gold’ This heavy-handed retelling of the fight to reclaim a Gustav Klimt painting stolen by Nazis is no masterpiece.

“Woman in Gold” is also a buddy movie, showcasing a winter-spring friendship between a feisty matriarch and law-school-loans-to-pay young attorney.

Unlike another film about art looted by the Nazis during WWII – The Monuments Men – Woman In Gold personalises its story.