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Metascore
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positive
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The only thing that tops Cave here is Cohen himself at the end, singing "Tower of Song" with U2.
90
An affectionate and intimate celebration of the acclaimed troubadour in stirring music and words.
89
A moving tribute to this legendary artist's life and career.
88
The accolades are typically gushing - Bono likens Cohen to Byron and Shelley.
88
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."
83
I'm not generally a big fan of tribute concerts, but this is a glorious exception.
83
If there's a calmer, more self-collected star out there, then he or she has hidden the fact pretty well.
80
Fetching little monument to the bard of rapturous bereavement.
80
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.
80
If you can't think of a crisis in your life that's tied to a Leonard Cohen song, then Canadian director Lian Lunson's velvety, exuberantly hagiographic film of a 2005 Sydney tribute concert to the Prince of Pain may not be the movie for you.
