James Mangold directs Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon and Robert Patrick in this biopic of Johnny Cash.

Cards on the table time. Live At Folsom Prison is the greatest live album ever and Johnny Cash is the recording artist whose songs I sing away absent minded to whenever I’m doing my chores. So even though this often feels as rote and shopworn as many a musician life story, I have a real affinity for the material and the man. What punts it up a notch or five are a pair of megawatt lead performances from Phoenix and Witherspoon. Their enticing central stop-start romance means Walk The Line bucks it formulaic nature and becomes a movie in its own right.

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