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Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: I'm Not There is at once experimental and mainstream: Haynes juggles the facts, plays fast and loose, but serves up images, and songs that are as much a part of the collective pop consciousness as anything the 20th century produced. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: I appreciate Haynes' craft and ambition. I love the Ledger/Gainsbourg scenes, which are sweet and sad and delicately shaded. And Blanchett's inspired not-quite-impersonation of Dylan is reason enough to tussle with the rest of it. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: An exhilarant. Sends you out of the theater just as Dylan (and Rimbaud) would have it: with a riot of perfumes. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: Among its many achievements, Todd Haynes's I'm Not There hurls a Molotov cocktail through the facade of the Hollywood biopic factory. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: Todd Haynes has devised a Bob Dylan biopic that not even Dylan, for all his self-mythologizing, would have had the audacity to conceive. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: The film is bracingly original; it's also mystifying, overlong and at times nearly incoherent. Floating at a distance from its audience, it creates its own smoky logic. Read more
Keith Phipps, AV Club: The missteps don't detract from the thrilling brilliance of the filmmaking (aided by the remarkable cinematographer Ed Lachman), or dim the sense that Haynes was right in deciding that the fractions of the man would add up to more than the man himself. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: I'm Not There is brilliant, if often brilliantly surreal, filmmaking. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: I'm Not There feels like the most alive work to hit the screen in ages. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: A challenging film, one that I suspect can only benefit from multiple viewings. The success of its approaches varies, but its intent is unfailingly interesting. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: What emerges is a speculative, critical essay about the 60s, weighted down in spots by political correctness and a conflicted desire to mock Dylan's denseness while catering to his hardcore fans, but otherwise lively, fluid, and watchable. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: I'm Not There offers up a daring conceit and then falls apart trying to fulfill it. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: I'm Not There is an uncompromising, beautifully wrought essay on identity, artistic and otherwise. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Writer-director Todd Haynes has come up with the most interesting psycho-cultural-biographical mix in memory here, managing to make the film reek of the artsy '60s at the same time it unfailingly honors its subject. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The singular haunting beauty of I'm Not There, Todd Haynes' thrilling deep-vision meditation on the music and many lives of Bob Dylan, is that obsession isn't just its fuel -- it's the movie's spirit and subject, its driving force. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: It willfully denies one of the sacred tenets of cinematic storytelling, that every movie -- comedy, romance or biography -- is actually a mystery, one the audience expects to see solved. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: I'm Not There would make a fine exercise for graduate school analysis. I'm just not sure how well it works as a movie. Read more
Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News: Tiresome and plodding. Read more
David Gates, Newsweek: When it was over, I couldn't move. Despite a couple of slow stretches -- and Dylan has them, too -- I'm Not There turns out to be worthy of its subject. This isn't faint praise. It's a full-on rave. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: I'm Not There takes its audience across a Rubicon of moviegoing disillusionment, apathy and sloth: If you are, as you say, so tired of the old, then here is the new. Embrace it, or please shut up. Read more
Anthony Lane, New Yorker: It makes Yellow Submarine look like a miracle of sober narrative. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: ...there's one great movie in here. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: A vividly imagined homage to the evolving music and enigmatic figure we know as Bob Dylan. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: I cannot believe this is the Todd Haynes who topped my ten-best list in 2002 with the magnificent, unforgettable Far From Heaven. Headed for the No. 1 spot on my ten-worst list, I'm Not There is a tumultuous disappointment. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: It doesn't all work and it runs too long. But every fragment of Dylan's life, every version of him, from the funny to the tippy, rings true. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: There are those who will applaud what Haynes and his actors have accomplished, and I can understand its appeal on an intellectual level. But I am not a supporter of film without form or art without structure. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: What Haynes does is take away the reassuring segues that argue everything flows and makes sense, and to show what's really chaos under the skin of the film. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Anyone can make a bad movie, but it takes a good filmmaker to make one as bad as I'm Not There. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: Even if you're one of those viewers who finds Haynes an overly cerebral director (I'm not), [the] music provides an emotional scaffolding that sustains the film. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: A kaleidoscopic masterpiece...The genius of "I'm Not There" is that the Dylan who could answer our questions is left blowin' in the wind. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: To enjoy I'm Not There you should be just a little bit Dylan-crazy, fascinated by his talent, ornery personality and enduring cultural influence. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: How does it feeeel? Like a rolling shambles, much of it, and even a second viewing doesn't erase the sensation. Read more
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: Overall, I'm glad I was there. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: Lacks a narrative and a center, much like the "ghost" at its core. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: An absorbing, occasionally hallucinatory disquisition on how Dylan has brilliantly eluded his audience's projections. Read more