Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man

The only thing that tops Cave here is Cohen himself at the end, singing "Tower of Song" with U2. Read full review

An affectionate and intimate celebration of the acclaimed troubadour in stirring music and words. Read full review

A moving tribute to this legendary artist's life and career. Read full review

The accolades are typically gushing - Bono likens Cohen to Byron and Shelley. Read full review

Australian rocker Nick Cave talks of how discovering Cohen during his small-town youth "just changed things." Bono calls the singer "our Shelley, our Byron." Read full review

I'm not generally a big fan of tribute concerts, but this is a glorious exception. Read full review

If there's a calmer, more self-collected star out there, then he or she has hidden the fact pretty well. Read full review

Fetching little monument to the bard of rapturous bereavement. Read full review

Combines pieces of an extended interview with this Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and author, now 71, with a tribute concert organized by Hal Willner at the Sydney Opera House in January 2005. Read full review

If you can't think of a crisis in your life that's tied to a Leonard Cohen song, then Canadian director Lian Lunson's velvety, exuberantly hagiographic film of a 2005 Sydney tribute concert to the Prince of Pain may not be the movie for you. Read full review

It's a fleeting but memorable image in a film that defines Leonard Cohen largely through the admiration of fellow artists, who performed his songs at a tribute concert last year at the opera house in Sydney, Australia. Their admiration borders on the reverential, but reverence doesn't get in the way of their performances, which are varied, impassioned and thrilling.

I'm Your Man movingly captures the artist's lifelong search for truth and beauty and his translation of it into song. Read full review

Director Lian Lunson keeps the tone reverent, making I'm Your Man the cinematic equivalent of a testimonial dinner. But there's a place for that kind of film, particularly for subjects who've earned it. Read full review

I'm Your Man has at its spiritual center a troubadour with a distinctive, cagey mellowness about him. Read full review

In some cases, the songs themselves shine most brightly. Read full review

Proves that few can maneuver one of Cohen's dusky, lovelorn songs like Cohen himself. Read full review

The performances in the film are soul-saving. Read full review

The film comes to life when Cohen is on screen. Read full review

In this muddled but marvelous blend of documentary and concert film, director Lian Lunson takes you down to a place where it's possible to look closely at the life and art of cult troubadour Leonard Cohen. Read full review

The documentary seeks only to make a joyful noise, and is sometimes laboured in the love it so keenly wants to express. Then again, as Leonard would be the first to concede, there are worse sins than flawed worship. Read full review

This is Lunson's debut picture and she's smart enough to keep the whole affair very simple. Read full review

Succeeds best when it intensifies its focus on the work and life of its main subject, seen in interviews, home movies and in a climactic performance with Bono and the Edge on "Tower of Song." Read full review

This "Last Waltz"–like doc is almost funereal, full of reverent banalities spliced between overly folksy takes on melancholic Leonard Cohen bombshells. Read full review

If you're going to make a documentary about Leonard Cohen, the singer-songwriter, you should have him perform some of his better-known melodies, like "Suzanne." Read full review

Offering both too little material and too much, the movie leaves us in the bizarre position of understanding its subject no better by the end than we did at the beginning. Read full review

The net effect is one of frustration and will surely send Cohen compleatists back to their record collections for relief. Read full review

Torturously dull. Read full review