Advanced Search Beta »
Basic Search Fields
Walk the Line
Walk the Line Image
See the trailer
Metascore
72 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 39 Critics What's this?

User Score
7.8 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 164 Ratings

Your Score
10 out of 10
Rate this:
  • 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)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 30 out of 39
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 39
  3. Negative: 0 out of 39
  1. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    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. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Michael Sragow
    100
    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.
  3. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Pete Vonder Haar
    60
    Cash is a legend, and deserving of a more thoughtful portrayal than what we're offered here.

See all 39 Critic Reviews

User Reviews

Write a Review
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 73 out of 96
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 96
  3. Negative: 12 out of 96
  1. reveiwmanmyster
    10
    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
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. ChristianW.
    5
    Disappointing. Seemed to gloss over Johnny's dark side, drug use, arrest etc. Various scenes such as when Johnny or June are inspired to write a certain song were painfully contrived. Cash fans, I would say give it a miss and check out some of the good docos on his life instead.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. GlenD.
    3
    I watched this movie from beginning to end, and I was angered and disgusted! After reading Johnny Cash's autobiography 'Man In Black' it is easy to spot very obvious flaws in the movie. For one thing, Johnny Cash described his father as a good natured, good humoured, loving and dignified man who even preached one Sunday morning at thier church. The movie, however, portrays Ray Cash as a gruff , abusive, contemptuos tyrant. The movie didn't do June Cater justice either. In Cash's autobiography, June was a very strong, patient, sweet and dignified woman. The movie, however, has Reese Witherspoon portraying June as an ill tempered, mean mouthed battle axe. The movie also made Johnny Cash look wimpy and pathetic. Even during the weakest time of his life, the man still had strength, character, dignity, and a keen sense of humour. The good things I can say about Walk The Line is that the music and singing was pretty decent, and the clothes, the hairstyles and the cars were very authentic. I'll give Joaqin phoenix due credit for being able to do the tough job of looking and sounding like Johnny Cash.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

See all 96 User Reviews

Trailers