Walk the Line

"What adds boundless energy to Walk the Line is the performance by Reese Witherspoon as June Carter Cash."

"There's a warm and generous richness to this biopic..."

"The film’s writer-director, James Mangold... is skillful but safe-playing."

"Walk the Line missteps by routinely forgoing credible biographical grittiness in favor of glossy Hollywood mythologising."

"Mangold neither patronises the Cash/Carter love story with cliche, nor the audience with ordinary filmmaking."

"Mangold's direction is excellent, and the script... captures the complex characters without relying on biopic cliché."

"A passionate, warts-and-all chronicle of an extraordinary American artist, not to mention a love story that can't be beat."

"Phoenix and Witherspoon are dynamite, and their chemistry is palpable."

"A big, juicy, enjoyable wide-canvas biography with a handful of indelible moments..."

"Several scenes are of an emotional intensity out of all proportion to the humdrum musical biopic one expects."