Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man 2006

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Entertaining, if lightly inquisitive, tribute concert film. Read more

David Germain, Associated Press: Thorough it's not, but the concert documentary Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man gathers solid interviews, anecdotes, recitations and tribute performances that present a fairly engaging portrait of the wry, dark poet who became a distinct voice. Read more

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: The strength and beauty of Cohen's songs is, if anything, enhanced by the treatment they get from such folk legends -- and legends in the making -- as Kate and Anna McGarrigle, and Kate's son and daughter, Rufus and Martha Wainwright. Read more

Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: You know it has to be coming, but when it does, 'Suzanne' almost stops time with its prayerful beauty. Read more

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: It's just a privilege and a pleasure to spend time with this material... and this man. Read more

Keith Phipps, AV Club: Cohen is such a mesmerizing narrator of his own life, it's a shame the sound bites don't dig deeper; there's probably a first-rate autobiography in the outtakes. Read more

Kyle Lawson, Arizona Republic: An odd but enjoyable concoction of biography, music commentary and concert. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Whatever the approach, the songs are sturdy enough to support it while remaining resigned and elusive, their words practically glowing in the dark. Read more

Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: We hardly get to know Cohen from the biographical shorthand melded to a worshipful tribute show in which the Canadian singer-songwriter never even appears. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: I'm not generally a big fan of tribute concerts, but this is a glorious exception. Read more

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: A tribute concert with earnest but mostly average performances gussied up with fawning if passionate praise from admirers and occasional bits of self-deprecation from Cohen himself. Read more

Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News: Mr. Cohen is funny and charming while being brilliantly observant, so it's especially frustrating that this film about him is so reverent and humorless. Read more

Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: The concert shows off Cohen's unifying influence on an astonishingly diverse range of musicians. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: I'm Your Man 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 more

Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: Because Cohen is such a colorful, eloquent central character, I'm Your Man overcomes its flaws. His music may not be everyone's cup of folk-rock tea, but his stories of lost love, self-doubt and creative struggle ring universal. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: 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 more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: It's not a deep documentary. We learn precious little about the real man underneath his sharp-dressed pose. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Cohen's songs are both universal and deeply personal. Even when we're listening to him alone in our room, we still feel like part of the world. Read more

Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle: In the end, it's Cohen's songs that are what this loving musical portrait is all about. Read more

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Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Cohen frequently isn't talking -- the subject too often goes missing from his own portrait. Read more

Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: As a movie subject, Cohen has proven equally electrifying and elusive. Read more

Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: Next to Cohen's castle of music, place this fetching little monument to the bard of rapturous bereavement. Read more

Trevor Johnston, Time Out: At various times poet, consort of beautiful women and Zen monk, his biog's intriguing too, all of which makes this doc highly welcome, even if it's at best a partial view. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: The raspy-voiced troubadour is celebrated in the mesmerizing documentary Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man. Read more

Robert Koehler, Variety: A nice auto-portrait. Read more

Laura Sinagra, Village Voice: [A] rather grating hagiography. Read more

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Bloodless where it should be bold, precious where it should be perceptive and irritating where it should be inspiring. Read more