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  • Starring: Garrett Hedlund, Gwyneth Paltrow, Leighton Meester
  • Summary: Soon after a rising young singer-songwriter gets involved with a fallen, emotionally unstable country star, the pair embarks on a career resurrection tour helmed by her husband/manager and featuring a beauty-queen-turned-singer. Between concerts, romantic entanglements and old demons threaten to derail them all. (Sony Pictures)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 16 out of 30
  3. Negative: 7 out of 30
  1. Movieline
    Reviewed by: Michelle Orange
    Jan 6, 2011
    75
    Country Strong rides pretty high in the saddle, confident in the remarkably realized world Feste has created for her characters.
  2. Empire
    Reviewed by: Simond Braund
    Mar 21, 2011
    60
    C&W lovers will lap it up - look out for some stellar Nashville cameos - and there's big-lunged uplift to see you through the cornball plot turns.
  3. Orlando Sentinel
    Reviewed by: Roger Moore
    Jan 10, 2011
    38
    A little like modern country music - odd moments of sincerity, heart and authenticity peek through the plastic, the hype and the manufactured hokum.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. JamesGatz
    10
    More tonally consistent than Black Swan or the Fighter, with a more optimistic and emotionally satisfying view of humanity than The Social Network or True Grit. This movie authentically believes that human beings - screwed up, damaged, imperfect creatures that we are - can be happy. That's an incredibly rare sentiment, not just in the movies, but in the world at large. We should celebrate it anytime it arrives - any time it is expressed, in a heartfelt, emotionally coherent way. This is a good film. You should see it. You probably wont. You'll probably go to one of the many high profile films being fawned over by the academy this season. They're all impressive - large, well engineered monstrosities with actors thinking and acting in ways that humans never think or act - and not one of them has the pure humanistic love that this film has for its characters and for people in general. Go see it.… Expand
    • 2 of 2 users said yes
  2. londaanmarie88
    10
    I really enjoyed this movie. i mean its whatever you think but it was amazing to me & i read this other review that said city people did nt like it and i was like of course there not going to like it they are city people not country, the movie is COUNTRY strong not CITY strong. This movie is really good and its enjoyable. BEST MOVIE EVER YOU SHOULD GO SEE IT IF YOU HAVEN'T !… Expand
    • 2 of 3 users said yes
  3. jrmint
    5
    Because I had heard such terrible things about this movie, it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Paltrow was kind of adorable as a drunk, country music star, and the rest of the characters were likable in some way. However, if you want a great movie in this specific genre, check out "Walk the Line" - it has more depth and storyline; since this was slightly predictable and cliche. Still, not a total waste of two hours.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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