Roger Ebert
What adds boundless energy to Walk the Line is the performance by Reese Witherspoon as June Carter Cash.
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Walk the Line
A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.
2005Rating: PG-13136 minsGermany, USAMars Media Beteiligungs, Tree Line Films, Konrad Pictures, Catfish Productions, Fox 2000 Pictures
DramaMusicRomance
Walk the Line | Awards
Winner of Best Actress in a Lead Role for Reece Witherspoon at the 2006 Oscars, BAFTAs and Golden Globes. Walk the Line also won two additional Golden Globes - Best Actor for Joaquin Phoenix and Best Picture (Comedy or Musical).
Walk the Line | Reviews
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Slant Magazine
Walk the Line missteps by routinely forgoing credible biographical grittiness in favor of glossy Hollywood mythologising.
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SBS
Mangold neither patronises the Cash/Carter love story with cliche, nor the audience with ordinary filmmaking.
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CNN
Mangold's direction is excellent, and the script... captures the complex characters without relying on biopic cliché.
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San Francisco Chronicle
A passionate, warts-and-all chronicle of an extraordinary American artist, not to mention a love story that can't be beat.
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Entertainment Weekly
A big, juicy, enjoyable wide-canvas biography with a handful of indelible moments...
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Daily Telegraph
Several scenes are of an emotional intensity out of all proportion to the humdrum musical biopic one expects.
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Walk the Line is available to stream in Australia now on Google Play and Apple TV and Disney+ and Prime Video Store.