- Network: BBC America
- Series Premiere Date: Oct 16, 2013
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 15 Ratings
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Positive: 12 out of 15
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Mixed: 1 out of 15
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Negative: 2 out of 15
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Burton and TaylorYour Score0 out of 10User ScoreGenerally favorable reviews- based on 15 Ratings
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Oct 22, 2013I found this under whelming. It could have had a much more explosive story. The story we know was an exciting forbidden love affair, one I am sure a good writer can make into a blockbuster.
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Sep 11, 2014Absolutely loved it! What great performances by both actors. It was compelling from beginning to end. The sort of movie you could watch more than once.
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Carter and West turn in winning performances, however little they resemble the icons they've been tasked to portray.
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As with last year’s My Week with Marilyn, Burton and Taylor avoids retreading familiar material by picking a relatively quiet, unexplored interlude in a celebrity’s life--the stuff of tasteful restraint, but not exactly scintillating story. And it only scans as tasteful restraint if the audience can fill in all the salacious history for themselves. For those who can, Burton and Taylor is much more effective.
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What makes the film especially memorable, and equally flawed, is its single-minded determination to drive out all the sleaze and scandal that so defined Burton and Taylor's love affair. Ivory doesn't spin a celebrity tale here but rather a universal story about love won and love lost.