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Behind the Candelabra
Directed by
Steven Soderbergh
R
2013
1h 58m
Drama
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Romance
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7.0
94%
71%
6.6
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A chronicle of the tempestuous six-year romance between megastar singer Liberace and his young lover Scott Thorson.
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Behind the Candelabra Ratings & Reviews
ARTINFO.com
J. Hoberman
Although Behind the Candelabra may be Soderbergh's swan song, it's an uncanny resurrection of the creature that was Liberace.
The Dissolve
Noel Murray
Soderbergh and LaGravenese go deep beneath this voyeuristic fascination with wealth, fame, and the secret lives of celebrities.
Film Comment Magazine
Amy Taubin
As fabulous as it should be and not a jot more or less.
HollywoodChicago.com
Brian Tallerico
Balancing the borderline insane personality of Liberace with the intimate truth of the story told in Steven Soderbergh's Behind the Candleabra... is this remarkable film's greatest strength.
The Atlantic
Jon Frosch
Witty, briskly paced and consistently entertaining.
USA Today
Robert Bianco
Buffed to a typical HBO high gloss, Candelabra is a visual feast. It shines brightest in those moments where it captures the rhythms of a relationship in its first blush of affection and its seemingly inevitable collapse.
Denver Post
Joanne Ostrow
The stunning and quite intimate performances by Michael Douglas and Matt Damon are award-worthy.
AV Club
Emily St. James
The story is told less as a cause-and-effect narrative than as a collection of incidents that add up to something with a crushing emotional weight.
Slant Magazine
Chris Cabin
Thematic kin to Clint Eastwood's terrific J. Edgar, Behind the Candelabra is powerful, funny, and emotionally rigorous, and though it might act as a fiery and forceful resignation, it also serves as an uncommonly heartfelt Dear John letter.
Philadelphia Inquirer
David Hiltbrand
This is one of the strangest and strongest TV movies in memory.
Washington Post
Hank Stuever
The story as told is just too depressing, too empty and, most of all, too dead and gone.
Los Angeles Times
Mary McNamara
Soderbergh is clearly captivated, as are we all, by the rot underlying the glitz, but even with Douglas' nuanced performance, the film simplifies too many things.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Matt Zoller Seitz
Whether the biopic Behind the Candelabra ends up being a swan song for director Steven Soderbergh or merely the last entry in one phase of a long career, it's an impressive work.
New York Daily News
David Hinckley
There's never a sense Douglas or director Steven Soderbergh is after a caricature, but there's still the sense that we sometimes get one.
New York Post
Linda Stasi
Douglas manages to take a real-life cartoon character and make him into a sometimes kind, often cruel, real person.
Wall Street Journal
Nancy DeWolf Smith
The glitter and kitsch, and jaw-dropping performances by Michael Douglas as the middle-age Liberace and Matt Damon as his much younger boy-toy Scott Thorson, make this a wild ride without compare.
Paste Magazine
Tim Grierson
Love stories haven't been a big focus in his [Soderbergh] work. But, if it is his final movie, it's worth noting that this is one of his warmest.
The New Republic
David Thomson
Douglas is more than acceptable, but Damon has made an unforgettable character. Scott Thorson is unknown and he comes out of the dark as the story that needs to be told.
HitFix
Alan Sepinwall
It's rare that I hate an HBO movie, but it's been a long time since I loved one. Until now.
Boston Globe
Matthew Gilbert
Behind the Candelabra doesn't quite fit into the biopic genre - simply because it is so good.
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