Glen Campbell... I'll Be Me Reviews
Minutes into the film it is obvious this is going to be a rough emotional ride.
| Jan 31, 2018
I'll Be Me is a palatable but powerful plea for attention to a disease that is likely to explode in coming years with the aging of the baby boomers.
| Oct 17, 2017
The result is an oddly effective hybrid of music and medical doc.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 18, 2015
Both moving and enlightening, even if it does occasionally take on the tone of an educational video.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 12, 2015
Life is the collection of memories, and Campbell is losing them. But there is solace in the reality that you will not miss what you cannot recall.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 3, 2015
Emotional and intimate.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 2, 2015
It's a rare, intensely personal look at Alzheimer's that will be tragically familiar to those who have lived with it and sobering and sad for those who have not.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 2, 2015
A harrowing yet also inspiring portrait of the American pop music icon as he copes with the rapid deterioration of Alzheimer's.
| Feb 17, 2015
Director Keach places his cameras so that you feel like you are part of the film.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 21, 2015
As a salute to a musical master, I'll Be Me does Glen Campbell justice. And as a rallying cry for the fight to end Alzheimer's, it's potent.
| Original Score: B | Jan 8, 2015
One of Glen Campbell's final songs was Not Gonna Miss You, dedicated to his wife. I can't imagine anyone listening to it and not being moved.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 7, 2015
The film includes vignettes of the more than 100 concerts in that goodbye tour, all of which serve as vivid and painful images of the downward spiral that is Alzheimer's.
| Original Score: A | Jan 6, 2015
I'll Be Me" takes you along on that tour and shares with you the ups and downs of this most personal of illnesses.
| Jan 6, 2015
Even if hits like 'Wichita Lineman' or 'Rhinestone Cowboy' are not among your jams, it's impossible to not get swept up by the emotions on display.
| Jan 5, 2015
Campbell's long goodbye to music and memory is astonishing... part of a farewell tour forced by Alzheimer's and each second was dramatic, swelling hearts with missed lyrics and cruelly perfect guitar licks, one thing he hadn't forgotten how to do.
Full Review | Original Score: A | Jan 5, 2015
...heartbreaking, surprisingly entertaining
| Original Score: 89/100 | Dec 31, 2014
This is a portrait of a star gaining luster even as his mortality becomes more evident.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 26, 2014
Ultimately, I'll Be Me is both an unconventional tribute to this American icon and a deep-down cri de coeur for more research on viable ways to retard the progression of Alzheimer's and perhaps one day find a reliable cure.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 21, 2014
A wrenching document, Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me is a painful but necessary tribute to a singular talent.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 20, 2014
The film is as much a love story as it is a farewell.
| Nov 18, 2014