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Keep the Lights On is a mysterious, sexy journey deep into the love affair of two men that always manages to stay true to life.
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All Critics (67) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (60) | Rotten (7)
Every frame pulses with hard-gained experience: it may be the most lived-in film of 2012, and certainly counts among the most moving. November 1, 2012 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Every frame pulses with hard-gained experience: it may be the most lived-in film of 2012, and certainly counts among the most moving.
Mike McCahill
Monitoring the peaks and troughs of this fractious relationship is more fascinating than enjoyable. November 1, 2012 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Monitoring the peaks and troughs of this fractious relationship is more fascinating than enjoyable.
Vadim Rizov
This is a painful drama, but its pain is more studied than emotive, and it demands that we think just as much as it makes us feel. October 30, 2012 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
This is a painful drama, but its pain is more studied than emotive, and it demands that we think just as much as it makes us feel.
Dave Calhoun
A complex and mysterious tale of a love affair, one that lacks the tidy story arc of a movie but feels real. October 25, 2012 | Full Review…
A complex and mysterious tale of a love affair, one that lacks the tidy story arc of a movie but feels real.
J. R. Jones
When you summon memories of this film, they are almost always of two men in a room, in a default state of discontent. October 25, 2012 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
When you summon memories of this film, they are almost always of two men in a room, in a default state of discontent.
Roger Ebert
A heart-breaking love story and call for emotional transparency in relationships. October 12, 2012 | Full Review…
A heart-breaking love story and call for emotional transparency in relationships.
Liam Lacey
Keep the Lights On stands as a heart-wrenching arch, oozing with amiable authenticity in slices of life too often shied away from on screen. November 16, 2020 | Full Review…
Keep the Lights On stands as a heart-wrenching arch, oozing with amiable authenticity in slices of life too often shied away from on screen.
Jordan M. Smith
Writer/director Ira Sachs has wisely chosen to tell the nine-year affair from the point of view of the filmmaker... June 9, 2020 | Full Review…
Writer/director Ira Sachs has wisely chosen to tell the nine-year affair from the point of view of the filmmaker...
David Lamble
This gay domestic drama is a fascinating turn for Sachs. February 28, 2020 | Full Review…
This gay domestic drama is a fascinating turn for Sachs.
B. Ruby Rich
Multifaceted director Ira Sachs returns with Keep the Lights On, his first feature since 2007, and is arguably his most poignant and strongest work yet. July 8, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Multifaceted director Ira Sachs returns with Keep the Lights On, his first feature since 2007, and is arguably his most poignant and strongest work yet.
Nicholas Bell
Keep The Lights On is still well-made with a terrific cast supporting one of the year's best performances. June 29, 2019 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
Keep The Lights On is still well-made with a terrific cast supporting one of the year's best performances.
C.J. Prince
The movie's elaborately failed closure only makes sense once you understand that the filmmaker's all-too-human desire for self-justification apparently trumped the ruthless self-control required to make a work of art. February 25, 2019 | Full Review…
The movie's elaborately failed closure only makes sense once you understand that the filmmaker's all-too-human desire for self-justification apparently trumped the ruthless self-control required to make a work of art.
J. Hoberman
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