I Am: Celine Dion Reviews
I Am: Celine Dion can be commended for how Celine Dion openly shares what her life was like shortly after being diagnosed with stiff person syndrome. However, this documentary did not need so many 'greatest hits' archival clips as interruptions.
| Jan 7, 2025
I Am: Celine Dion is meant to garnish hope. It's usually successful.
| Dec 17, 2024
In [this] new raw and hopeful documentary, the Canadian singer opens up about her years-long struggle with stiff-person syndrome.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 10, 2024
An inspiring, raw, and emotional tribute to one of the world’s most beloved vocal talents.
| Oct 10, 2024
The result is a tribute both to Dion’s resiliency and her talent, making it ideal for fans.
| Aug 8, 2024
Through her health journey, the star has still managed to keep her quirky sense of humor and fierce spirit, with her bravery being the loudest voice in the room.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2024
Irene Taylor Brodsky has created a documentary that not only celebrates Celine Dion’s career and talent, but also highlights her incredible strength and resilience. [Full review in Spanish]
| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 30, 2024
Celine Dion is not one to be defeated. Her spirit is too strong, determined and unwavering proving that this diva is more than the sum of her parts - she in invincible.
| Jul 26, 2024
A moving portrait of resilience that shows Dion's unwavering strength to go on. Watching this film is an emotional roller coaster as we get to see the lowest and highest moments of the Priestess of Pop’s life.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 24, 2024
Unlike how her subject’s music can be, Irene Taylor’s biography I Am: Céline Dion is not a mournful drama. That doesn’t mean it’s easy.
| Jul 24, 2024
Often the best celebrity documentaries explore their subjects at their most vulnerable, such as this moving, bittersweet portrait of the pop superstar.
| Jul 12, 2024
What saves the film is Dion’s indomitability and courage in allowing cameras to be present at this incredibly difficult juncture.
| Jul 8, 2024
I Am is quite the rollercoaster. A worthwhile watch.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 5, 2024
An extraordinary look at the veteran diva, her career, and her struggles.
| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 5, 2024
Wisely avoiding a career-spanning Wikipedia read of her life, we’re instead given powerful access to a deeply humanizing experience.
| Jul 3, 2024
[Celine's] a woman who lives for music... and the cameras follow a slow rehab as she tries to record new music. That's the triumph-of-spirit that makes Irene Taylor's doco so watchable, whatever you might feel about Dion and her music.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 2, 2024
Even if she can’t sing the way she used to, Dion has given us a brave and shatteringly powerful documentary.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 1, 2024
A deeply uncomfortable film that is unafraid to address themes of grief and regret, director Irene Taylor’s I Am: Celine Dion is more a celebration of the pop star’s spirit than her many professional achievements.
| Jun 30, 2024
Even if you are completely disinterested in Dion, if you are a human being who has not found a way to achieve immortality, “I Am: Celine Dion” is still for you.
| Jun 29, 2024
Emotionally stripped bare, Dion introduces a rarely seen side of herself outside of the spotlight in filmmaker Irene Taylor’s intimate portrait, I Am: Celine Dion, which will appeal to viewers whether you are a fan of her or not.
| Jun 28, 2024