CRITICAL CONSENSUS

MaryAnn Johanson - Flick Filosopher

Lou Lumenick - NY Post

Michael Sragow - Baltimore Sun

Mike Clark - USA Today

Wesley Morris - Boston Globe

Steven Rea - Philadelphia Inquirer

Peter Travers - Rolling Stone

Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times

Owen Gleiberman - EW

William Arnold - Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Marc Savlov - Austin Chronicle

Michael Phillips - Chicago Tribune

James Berardinelli - ReelViews

Rene Rodriguez - Miami Herald

Ken Tucker - New York Magazine

DUELING CRITICS

"[Joaquin Phoenix] reached down real deep and brought up something from god knows where that’s not quite an impersonation of Cash, nor a pastiche, but it’s so much coarser and more darkly pitched and trill-ier than the actor’s own voice that only some kind of wild actorly magic can be responsible for it"

- MaryAnn Johanson

"There are too many musical performances in this movie, even for a country fan such as myself, to keep the city slickers engaged. This bespeaks great faith in the charisma of the stars, who merit it. They also, however, deserved a better script"

- Ken Tucker