“Walk the Line” may not be reinventing the wheel, but the film holds up incredibly well in the unique talents of remarkable performers who maintain Mangold’s vision.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 13, 2024

Johnny Cash gets the biopic treatment in this superior portrait of the man, his music, the demons he battled and the love that saved him.

| Jul 28, 2022

This is not a malicious or embarrassing work; the viewer simply feels that Mangold has not genuinely tackled a single one of the complex and potentially rich problems bound up with the lives of Cash and Carter.

| Jul 9, 2020

I love this movie so much.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Feb 28, 2019

The film boasts of extremely competent performances, particularly the extraordinary Phoenix. As for Witherspoon, with her nasal twang and perky persona, she is sweet and sassy...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 10, 2019

Walk the Line -- although conspicuously well acted -- is really no different from previous efforts, and that's a good thing. It shares the charm of the (musical biopic) genre.

| Jan 16, 2018

Not only does the film show just how hungry Cash was to sing his songs, it understands how hungry society was for the cataclysmic changes such music brought.

| Sep 26, 2017

It's a tidy Hollywood arc imposed on a messy real life, but it gets the job done.

| Nov 19, 2013

the acting compensates for the weaknesses in the script

| Original Score: B- | Jul 2, 2013

What made this film work, and what ultimately won it most of its acclaim, were the performances of the actors.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 31, 2012

Reverently reductive

| Sep 1, 2009

A fun, well acted, and well directed piece of filmmaking...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 29, 2009

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 20, 2008

Walk the Line isn't as great a biopic as Ray, but it's still a fine tribute to the Man in Black and his muse.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 22, 2008

A sturdily conventional biopic.

| Original Score: B | Jul 24, 2007

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 14, 2007

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Witherspoon delivers a full-bodied, note-perfect performance as sassy, no-nonsense June, and proves herself an able singer in the process.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 17, 2006

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 12, 2006

Reese Witherspoon is a marvel.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 4, 2006