When You're Strange offers a worshipful but insightful portrait of the group... full review

Although Doors fans will drool over the prospect of the previously unseen footage, they are unlikely to find anything new here. full review

[A] muddled, pretentious assemblage of film clips of the band shot between 1966 and 1971, with solemn narration by Johnny Depp.

Seeing Morrison blithely hang a lei over the neck of an obviously giddy young woman or watching as Manzarek patiently fields questions helps humanize a group of men all too often shrouded in the mists of legend. full review

A sometimes insightful, sometimes absurdly devotional but steadily engaging film. full review

When You're Strange offers a mesmerizing, behind-the-music glimpse at a crucial and bizarre moment in rock history, and maybe in American cultural history, period. full review

When You're Strange is a remedial Doors class, taught by a professor who sounds as if he's doing voiceovers for car commercials. full review

Of little interest to anyone beyond hard-core Doors fans hungry for any previously unreleased film or audio content. full review

Writer/director Tom DiCillo goes a bit overboard with his rhetoric, describing Morrison as "like an ancient shaman." Johnny Depp's measured narration brings DiCillo's often worshipful words back to earth. full review

Unhappy with what Oliver Stone did to Jim Morrison and the Doors in his 1991 biopic? Here's the doc for you. full review

DiCillo approaches this nonfiction project with the glazed eyes of a true fan. He has the participation of surviving band members and a lot of rare, mesmerizing footage at his disposal ... What he doesn't have is critical distance or anything new to say. full review

A formal exercise in redundancy, offering no new insights into the much mythologized rock band. full review

Never gets past the standard mythology of the band codified by Oliver Stone's 1991 biopic full review

The movie is stitched together with a narration, spoken by Johnny Depp, that sounds like a highly enlightened Wikipedia entry. Yet DiCillo knows what made this band great. full review

For a couple of years, Morrison was the best act in American show business. And the best thing about it: It wasn't an act. full review

Primo footage of recording sessions, concert perfs and various backstage trips is ubiquitous--and sadly squandered--amid wall-to-wall voiceover narration that is punishingly banal when not factually sketchy or flat-out false. full review