Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man Critic Reviews

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

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

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

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

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