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Generally favorable reviews- based on 185 Ratings

  • Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon
  • Summary: 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)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 30 out of 39
  2. Negative: 0 out of 39
  1. 100
    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.
  2. 80
    I suspect many Cash fans will think it's too conventional. But I think its conventionality is part of its power.
  3. Reviewed by: Colin Kennedy
    80
    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.
  4. 60
    Cash is a legend, and deserving of a more thoughtful portrayal than what we’re offered here.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 78 out of 101
  2. Negative: 12 out of 101
  1. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh, walk the line. in entertaining movie with a good message. Don't do speed or you will lose everything but gain a wife. Even so the main part of the movie was to shoe that he walked the line, been to the worst place almost any Artist could go and came out of it. He was the first person that people said was messed up in the music biz. Expand
  2. Walk the Line is a beautiful film that takes the audience through the destruction and ultimate redemption of the immortal artist's life, emphasized by the flawless lead performances. Expand
  3. 7
    Biopics are never the most interesting of stories but Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon are absolutely wonderful in their roles. It is a very believable friendship and love they have for one another, and the music is great! Expand
  4. RobertL.
    4
    The story was familiar and simplistic, but heart affecting. Reese does an excellent job of acting and reasonably good singing, but Joaquin�39;s one note acting and thin, off key singing ruined the story for me. I wish they would have used the original artist recordings to give true honor to the music instead of the karaoke subsitute we got. Expand

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