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Walk the Line
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for some language, thematic material and depiction of drug dependency
Starring
Joaquin Phoenix,
Reese Witherspoon,
Ginnifer Goodwin,
Robert Patrick,
Dallas Roberts,
Dan John Miller,
Larry Bagby,
and
Shelby Lynne
The story of the young Johnny Cash and his incendiary love affair with June Carter Cash come to life in Walk the Line. (20th Century Fox)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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Musical
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Gill Dennis
James Mangold
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| DIRECTED BY: |
James Mangold
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: February 28, 2006
Theatrical: November 18, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
136 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
Won Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy) at the 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards.

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Walk the Line superbly combines music and two of the year's most riveting performances to tell one of the screen's great love stories.

100
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
What Phoenix and Witherspoon accomplish in this movie is transcendent. They act with every bone and inch of flesh and facial plane, and each tone and waver of their voice.

90
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Breaks through the conventions of its biopic form with a pair of brilliant performances and a whole lot more.
88
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
It's a celebration of the good times and bad times shared by a man and woman who found each other in the middle of some historic craziness, and it rocks.

88
USA Today
Mike Clark
A Johnny Cash biopic equally packed with music and frustrated love, Walk the Line goes from compelling to enthralling.

88
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
The film sends you home moved and in a tuneful mood.

88
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Witherspoon has nailed it before, notably in "Election," but her portrayal of June is astounding in its vitality and richness.

88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
What adds boundless energy to Walk the Line is the performance by Reese Witherspoon as June Carter Cash.

83
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
A big, juicy, enjoyable wide-canvas biography with a handful of indelible moments.

83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
The movie is entertaining, reasonably true to the facts of its subject's life and full of music.

80
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
As the star-crossed couple, Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon contribute all their own vocals, and their soapier scenes together reminded me of no less than the 1954 "A Star Is Born."

80
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
I suspect many Cash fans will think it's too conventional. But I think its conventionality is part of its power.

80
Slate
David Edelstein
In spite of its standard biopic gaps and simplifications, Walk the Line gets the big things right.

80
Empire
Colin Kennedy
Witherspoon's June is a pistol - a sugar-rush of screwball energy and cornball Southern sass that's meticulously earthed with grace notes of sadness.

78
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Mangold, Phoenix, and Witherspoon, all excellent in their roles.

75
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Cash was a true anomaly: a poseur who was also the genuine article. A better movie would have made that contradiction its core.

75
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
It doesn't matter much that Phoenix and Witherspoon sound more like Phoenix and Witherspoon than Cash and Carter. The chemistry is there. The actors walk their own line, successfully.

75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
This movie has a driving plotline that "Ray" lacked - a love story. To me, that's what elevates this film.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
A passionate, chronicle of an extraordinary artist, and a love story that can't be beat.

75
Premiere
Glenn Kenny
Thanks to the movie's very clear respect for Cash and his music, and thanks mostly to the two superb, heartfelt performances by Reese Witherspoon as Carter and Joaquin Phoenix as Cash, Walk the Line eventually earned my sympathy.

75
Portland Oregonian
M. E. Russell
It's frustrating that a movie about a man so deathly serious about music has largely boiled his life down to addiction and adultery.

75
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
What Walk the Line does well, it does really well. Mangold was wisely generous with the amount of musical performance he included in the film, and the later scenes - showing Cash and Carter as partners - are so well shot and edited, they defy you to sit still.

75
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Conventional to the core but gets a blast of pure, hard-driving energy from Joaquin Phoenix's and Reese Witherspoon's vividly realized performances.

75
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Cash made some untamed, exhilarating sounds in its formative days. Walk the Line is strongest when it shows him in love with either his music or his muse.

75
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
The best moments in Walk the Line are the plentiful musical sequences, from Cash's initial foray into the Sun Records studio in Memphis, to his nights performing in high school auditoriums alongside the likes of Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis, to his landmark concert at Folsom Prison in 1968, where his dangerous, edgy persona was cemented.

70
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Walk the Line is a strongly acted, musically vibrant, conventionally satisfying biopic of country/rock/blues legend Johnny Cash and his second wife, June Carter.

70
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
An engaging biopic that would totally lack surprise were it not for Reese Witherspoon, and a healthy touch of ambivalence about the populist myth that bound The Man in Black to his adoring public.

70
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
The movie is less an uncharted journey than a 2 p.m. bus tour of a music industry legend. But like an expert guide, Mangold shepherds the story with enough grace, energy and skill to make it worthwhile.

70
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
The decision to approach Johnny's life as a love story causes Mangold to neglect the development of Johnny's music.

63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
The problem is that the movie plays down almost everything that made Cash great: the train rumble of a voice, the direct, poetic truth of his best lyrics, the invention of his outlaw image and his constant creativity.

60
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
Cash is a legend, and deserving of a more thoughtful portrayal than what we’re offered here.

60
Newsweek
David Ansen
This Man in Black is, frankly, a bit of a wuss. As a love story, Walk the Line can seduce. As a biopic, it treads awfully familiar Overcoming Adversity turf.

60
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Unfortunately, for all its good music and admirable vocal impersonations, Walk the Line slides -- very, very slowly -- downhill.

60
New York Magazine
Ken Tucker
There are too many musical performances in this movie, even for a country fan such as myself, to keep the city slickers engaged. This bespeaks great faith in the charisma of the stars, who merit it. They also, however, deserved a better script.

60
The New Yorker
David Denby
I couldn't imagine anyone better suited to play the role. But this movie is a lot less interesting than it might be. Though it's not bad--in fact, it's rather sweet--it's too simple a portrait of a very complicated and calculating entertainer.

50
Dallas Observer
Robert Wilonsky
For all the affection Mangold feels for Cash and Carter, the movie feels oddly dispassionate.

50
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
In no way obsessive, Walk the Line is more sincerely--which is to say, more boringly--sincere. It doesn't leave you with much to think about, except maybe the empty vibrato of effective ventriloquism.

50
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Noel Murray
Ends up being another one of those life-of-an-entertainer films that reduces an artist to his most embarrassing moments.

50
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
There is no way a feature-length movie could do justice to such bounty, and Walk the Line settles for the minimum.


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