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Austin Butler (The Shannara Chronicles) is the one and only Elvis Presley in this across-the-years biopic from Oscar-nominee Baz Luhrmann (Moulin...
Austin Butler (The Shannara Chronicles) is the one and only Elvis Presley in this across-the-years biopic from Oscar-nominee Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge!). Co-stars the great Tom Hanks as Colonel Tom Parker, the enigmatic manager who shared a complex relationship with Presley.
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Musical biopics tend to be fairly rote affairs, but Baz Luhrmann's take on Elvis is sheer energy and spectacle, with a sensational performance from Austin Butler as The King. This is mythology, not biography – and it’s all the better for it.
77 %400 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
94 %13,074 reviewsAudience score rating
15+Age suitabilityChildren & Media rating
"It’s all a bit much, which means it’s just right."
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times"A spangly pinwheel of a movie that converts the Elvis saga we all carry around in our heads into a lavishly staged biopic-as-pop-opera."
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Variety
Variety"The affinity the director feels for his showman subject is both contagious and exhausting."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"It’s not a movie so much as 159-minute trailer for a film called Elvis – a relentless, frantically flashy montage, epic and yet negligible at the same time..."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"The problem here is that Luhrmann’s Colonel Parker... is possibly the most insufferable movie character ever conceived. The guy makes Jar-Jar Binks seem like Elliott Gould in The Long Goodbye."
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IndieWire
IndieWire"A hip-swiveling profile loaded with risk and reward."
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Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly"Elvis is the Baz Luhrmanniest film Baz Luhrmann has made yet..."
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Slash Film
Slash Film"Baz Luhrmann’s sweaty, seductive biopic makes the King cool again."
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Independent
Independent"Baz Luhurmann’s trad but terrifically enjoyable (Elvis) has swagger to spare, and a star-making central performance from Austin Butler..."
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Total Film
Total Film"Luhrmann has never been an accomplished dramatist. He has the instincts of a pop video supremo. And in pop god Elvis Presley he may have found his perfect subject."
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The Times
The Times"(A) loving, kinetic chronicle..."
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IGN
IGN"Austin Butler is the only thing that works..."
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Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair"A larger-than-life, energising and wildly entertaining anthem to the King..."
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Time Out
Time Out"Whatever flaws the film has, Butler’s Elvis is mesmeric."
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Little White Lies
Little White Lies"You can’t help falling in love with Baz Luhrmann’s jukebox epic..."
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The Telegraph
The Telegraph"Elvis is an exhilarating, maddening spectacle - but one made with love."
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Time Magazine
Time MagazineElvis | Details
Award winner- Best Actor in a Leading Role (Austin Butler), Casting, Costume Design and Make Up & Hair, BAFTAs 2023; Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama (Austin Butler), Golden Globes 2023
- Rating
- M, Mature themes and coarse language
- Runtime
- 159
- Genre
- Drama, Music, Musical, True Story & Biography
- Country of origin
- Australia, USA
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