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I advise you catch up with Walk the Line, if only for Ms. Witherspoon's transcendent joyousness as a still-growing legend within a legend.
Mangold was wisely generous with the amount of musical performance he included in the film, and the later scenes -- showing Cash and Carter as partners -- are so well shot and edited, they defy you to sit still.
If Walk the Line isn't the full story of Johnny Cash, it's at least a crucial corner of it, a way of coaxing a legend down to a human scale, without shrinking that legend away to nothingness.
A Johnny Cash biopic equally packed with music and frustrated love, Walk the Line goes from compelling to enthralling.
[Director] James Mangold's mostly excellent Walk the Line is designed as a Christian epic.
Joaquin Phoenix isn't Johnny Cash. But with the clip-clop of rhythms behind him, aiming his guitar like a gun, he puts on one sensational show.
A fun, well acted, and well directed piece of filmmaking...
Fascinating biopic, but best for mature teens and up.
This Extended Cut has more bonus features and weaves eight of 10 deleted scenes into the film.
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.
a very solid piece of filmmaking... but as a biopic it walks the line between conservative and bland.
A sturdily conventional biopic.
This bio-pic's primary failing is the absence of that trademark Johnny Cash baritone, because Mr. Phoenix handles all his own singing.
Witherspoon delivers a full-bodied, note-perfect performance as sassy, no-nonsense June, and proves herself an able singer in the process.
Despite the adulterous start to their relationship, the movie works best as a romance and that is what it is designed to be, with the emotional climax, and best scene, being the event that cements their relationship.
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