The Worst Rock Movies Ever Made ... (So Far)
Sometimes, when music meets celluloid, we get This Is Spinal Tap or DiG!. Most of the time, we don’t.
Larry Dobrow
Blender April 25 2008
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Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man (2005)Given our affection for “Famous Blue Raincoat” and “Sisters of Mercy,” we’re OK with anybody who slaps the “Beautiful Poet of the Apocalypse” tag on L. Cohen. This half-assed tribute, however, doesn’t impress his legend upon casual viewers; you come out of it thinking that Cohen is a capable song craftsman on the level of, say, Jackson Browne. That ain’t fair, and that ain’t right, and it ain’t fair. Plus, the flick doesn’t exactly plumb the musical A-list for its performances ("Kate and Anna McGarrigle? Whoa! This Cohen guy must be HUGE!"). A missed opportunity.