Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. 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.
2. Douglas manages to take a real-life cartoon character and make him into a sometimes kind, often cruel, real person.
3. Director Steven Soderbergh's dramedy features great performances by Michael Douglas and Matt Damon in the story of entertainer Liberace and his longtime lover.
4. The story as told is just too depressing, too empty and, most of all, too dead and gone.
5. All the joy, hurt and anger of any great cinema romance.
6. If this really is the end of the road for Soderbergh, then what a class act to finish on.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. Behind the Candelabra isn't a smear job, but it's not a revelation, either.
10. 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.

What was the overall consensus about the movie?
Affectionate without sacrificing honesty, Behind the Candelabra couples award-worthy performances from Michael Douglas and Matt Damon with some typically sharp direction from Steven Soderbergh.