The pre-release publicity on this would seem to have been overstated. (In the film Haynes has various actors as disparate as an 11-year-old African American boy to Cate Blanchett play the singer as he moves though his variegated career.) Variety’s Todd McCarthy is not impressed:

A densely idiosyncratic, cubist-like cinematic portrait of a man who often calls to mind Bob Dylan, Todd Haynes’ “I’m Not There” resembles a film a precocious grad student in musicology might make about a creative hero. Stylistically audacious in the way it employs six different actors and assorted visual styles to depict various aspects of the troubadour’s life and career, the film nevertheless lacks a narrative and a center, much like the “ghost” at its core. Dylan fans and ’60s-era pop-culture mavens will constitute pic’s most reliable audience, as mainstream interest will remain unstirred.