60
For all the singer's sincere intentions to build secular-religious bridges, a straight-up concert film might have been a better approach, especially given viewer fatigue with those musicians and their causes.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
60
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Though we see the same man throughout the bumpy tour captured here -- always calm, steady, faithful -- it's bound to prove an enlightening portrait for those who know him only as the guy who once worked with Peter Gabriel.
50
The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
Part concert film, part narrative, it isn't fully successful on either level, coming across more like an overlong DVD extra than a fully stand-alone work.
100
San Francisco Chronicle by Jonathan Curiel
A beautiful film.
40
Austin Chronicle by Marjorie Baumgarten
When the film sticks to biographical and career background, it is on steady ground, but when it argues the case for one particular album, it becomes promotional rather than documentary material.
50
The New York Times by Nathan Lee
Perhaps because the music is so good, with its purity of tone and dazzling rhythmic precision, the flaws of the surrounding movie become all the more obvious.
67
Love looks and sounds great, but in depicting N’Dour as a lofty symbol for music’s power to bridge worlds and inspire, it sometimes loses sight of the man.
67
Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer
Although his movie often resembles the kind of promotional video one might find as an extra on a concert DVD, N'Dour in full throttle is a sight, and sound, to behold.
50
The film works best when we see N'Dour onstage. He has a great set of pipes and is nothing if not charismatic.