Here, Johnny drifts in and out. There's enough focus on his story, with enough rare details, to intrigue his fans; but it's when his dazzling presence is removed that we can see Vivian shine.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 11, 2020

A heartfelt testament from four daughters to their resourceful, strong mother, this tribute to Johnny Cash's first wife, Vivian Liberto is an effort to bring this woman out of the shadows.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Nov 27, 2020

With documentation never exposed before, the film recognizes the place Vivian deserves in history. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 28, 2020

Even in her own memoir, Vivian was overshadowed by Johnny Cash. With this documentary, Vivian's family has succeeded in telling her story so that she is front and center where she belongs.

| Jul 22, 2020

You don't have to be a fan of Johnny Cash to love this beautiful story of a beautiful woman told by her beautiful daughters.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 14, 2020

But the whole point of this illuminating and often moving film is that all of these people have a tale to tell - and one that's not as simple as Hollywood would have it.

| Jul 13, 2020

A purely informational bio-doc that nonetheless tells an important story.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 6, 2020

You don't need to be a country music aficionado to appreciate this documentary about the first wife of Johnny Cash, which also incisively brings new insight into how fame can tear apart a family.

| Jul 1, 2020

Using an abundance of archival photographs, home movies, and news coverage throughout Cash's career, the movie paints a remarkably clear picture of the whirlwind romance...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 29, 2020

It isn't so much the presence of country legend Johnny Cash that renders Matt Riddlehoover's "My Darling Vivian" so affecting, it's his absence.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 28, 2020

A strong testament to a woman who deserved better treatment both from her man and his public.

| Jun 27, 2020

What comes through in the documentary is how much Vivian loved Johnny right up until his death in 2003 and how untrue the stories were about her.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 25, 2020

A stellar documentary that brings an entire, fascinating life out of the shadows.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 25, 2020

[The film] succeeds in its mission of putting Vivian back in the narrative of Johnny Cash's legend - not as a spurned first wife, but as a woman in her own right.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 25, 2020

Overall, I sort of wondered "Why?" Why am I watching this movie now? It's interesting... But there's sort of a lack of urgency to it.

| Jun 24, 2020

This movie really gets interesting when we get past all of that and we see her from the time of that divorce until she is 71-years-old.

| Jun 24, 2020

It's an interesting movie... It's a sort of reclamation project to restore his first wife to some kind of prominence and not just an asterisk to his career.

| Jun 24, 2020

For the ordinary film goer, My Darling Vivian never transcends the appeal of a home movie, a defense of Mother.

| Jun 23, 2020

Matt Riddlehoover details Cash's complete devotion to Vivian Liberto as the love of his life, until she wasn't.

| Jun 23, 2020

The central figure remains enigmatic; an extraordinarily vibrant camera subject, yet a somehow recessive personality.

| Jun 22, 2020