Candid and engaging.

| Nov 29, 2019

Tab Hunter Confidential is a great 2015 documentary about the life and career of the titular former actor, matinee idol and heartthrob who was also a closeted homosexual in 1950s Hollywood.

| Sep 15, 2019

Though tame it's still a moving portrait of the closeted clean-cut blond dreamboat actor.

| Original Score: B | Jul 14, 2019

Tab Hunter Confidential is a fascinating and comprehensive biography that successfully conveys Hunter's golden-boy status and subsequent career.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 14, 2019

The film sticks close to a well-worn formula of talking heads and clips and pics, but the talking heads are sincere and the clips are brilliantly curated, and Hunter makes for a warmly engaging tour guide.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 12, 2019

Tab Hunter Confidential is a thoroughly enjoyable documentary, told with honesty and not wrought with melodrama just for the sake of being shocking. A documentary worth seeing.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 10, 2019

Feels like wiki-cinema that simplifies the complexity of an interesting historical figure. This seems like a major missed opportunity to get at something more.

| Nov 3, 2018

In this doc, Hunter earns awareness and compassion for his gay life story. Today's Hollywood has no equivalent movie star.

| Sep 2, 2016

...offers an endearing, and mostly upbeat, biographical look at one of the brightest stars of the 1950s.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 7, 2016

Hunter's memories of a double life in the waning days of the studio system are fascinating.

| Dec 1, 2015

Tab Hunter Confidential is a well-crafted if not particularly deep bio-documentary of the genial actor, who is now 84 years old and provides a number of on-camera recollections.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 1, 2015

Those with an interest in both Hollywood and queer history will find much to like here.

| Dec 1, 2015

The retired actor charms by showing himself to be as reluctant at being a gay icon as he was at being a '50s heartthrob.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 1, 2015

The loves and life of Tab Hunter is laid bare, just like his perfect chiseled chest. I can hear his fans swooning.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 28, 2015

A documentary that's at its best when it's dealing with the irony of Hunter as a heartthrob to millions of young woman and a closeted gay man.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 22, 2015

It's refreshing to see an actor tell his own story with some real honesty. Overall, however, Tab Hunter Confidential is too much like every other Hollywood True Story out there.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 19, 2015

Hunter comes across as genial and private, a gentle fellow who prefers raising horses (a lifelong interest) to showbiz.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 9, 2015

Hunter himself appears content with his present and at peace with his past -- which is wonderful for him, if sometimes less than gripping in a movie.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 6, 2015

Film buffs especially are likely to enjoy this entertaining documentary, which explains how a literal choirboy became "six feet of rugged manhood to stir the heart of every woman" (even while one of his most passionate affairs was with Anthony Perkins).

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 6, 2015

Schwarz deftly demonstrates how frightened 1950s Hollywood was of the sexuality of its stars.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 5, 2015