
Roger Ebert
What adds boundless energy to Walk the Line is the performance by Reese Witherspoon as June Carter Cash.
Full reviewA 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.
What adds boundless energy to Walk the Line is the performance by Reese Witherspoon as June Carter Cash.
Full reviewWalk the Line missteps by routinely forgoing credible biographical grittiness in favor of glossy Hollywood mythologising.
Full reviewMangold neither patronises the Cash/Carter love story with cliche, nor the audience with ordinary filmmaking.
Full reviewMangold's direction is excellent, and the script... captures the complex characters without relying on biopic cliché.
Full reviewA passionate, warts-and-all chronicle of an extraordinary American artist, not to mention a love story that can't be beat.
Full reviewA big, juicy, enjoyable wide-canvas biography with a handful of indelible moments...
Full reviewSeveral scenes are of an emotional intensity out of all proportion to the humdrum musical biopic one expects.
Full reviewWalk the Line is available to stream in Australia now on Google Play and Apple TV and Disney+ and Prime Video Store.
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