I'm Not There Reviews

This page contains reviews for the 2007 drama film I'm Not There...

• "I'm Not There is the movie of the year. " — J. Hoberman, Village Voice
• "Among its many achievements, Todd Haynes's I'm Not There hurls a Molotov cocktail through the facade of the Hollywood biopic factory." — A.O. Scott, The New York 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." — Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Cate Blanchett received a Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actress. She was also nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actress category.

• The Hollywood Reporter: I'm Not There Review
  • "The film is said to have the endorsement of Dylan, which must have taken some courage given the ragged edges of his life on display. But the film fits well with his singular ability to reinvent himself while really putting us nowhere nearer to fully understanding the man."

• TIME: I'm Not There Review
  • "Blanchett is worth watching through her character's triumphs, disasters and longueurs. Overall, I'm glad I was there."

• Newsweek: I'm Not There Review
  • "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."

• Salon: I'm Not There Review
  • "This is a biopic of an idea, not of a man — a title card at the beginning reads 'Inspired by the music and many lives of Bob Dylan' &mdash and I'm still not sure how Haynes pulled it off. I only know that I can't wait to see it again."

• Slate: I'm Not There Review
  • "...tears open the by-now formulaic rock biopic and puts it back together again, fascinatingly askew."

• PopMatters: I'm Not There Review (8/10)
  • "It's a daring, difficult masterwork."

• USA Today: I'm Not There Review (2/4)
  • "Though you have to give Haynes credit for deviating from the standard biopic formula and attempting something provocative and visually arresting, the end result is a discordant, disjointed disappointment."

• New York Magazine: I'm Not There Review
  • "Too often, it's the movie that isn't there. What's meant to be archetypal comes across as superficial."

• IGN Movies: I'm Not There Review (2/5)
  • "One can only hope that Dylan fans will get something out of this because to everyone else it's just a disjointed mess."

• FilmBlather.com: I'm Not There Review (D+)
  • "Maddening and inaccessible, filled with the sort of insufferable faux-profundity that made the great man famous, the film is a stunning miscalculation for the usually right-on Haynes; a conceptual nightmare, gracelessly executed."

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