Country Strong Reviews



  • Country Strong
    • Genre : Drama, Music
    • Release Date :
    • MPAA Rating : PG-13
    • Duration : 112 minute(s)
    • Production Budget : -
    • Studio : Screen Gems
    • Official Site : http://www.countrystrong-movie.com/
    • Reviews Rate
      Nothing's perfect, but it's worth seeing.

    • Readers Rate
      5 of 5

Movie Reviews

  • too little on creating believable, multidimensional characters.
    2.5 of 4 by Claudia Puig [USA Today ]
  • to be a cliche-riddled Crazy Heart wannabe
    2.5 of 4 by James Berardinelli [ReelViews ]
  • There are so many stark choices
    3 of 5 by Elizabeth Weitzman [NY Daily News ]
  • The story is an all-too-familiar one
    2.5 of 5 by Betsy Sharkey [LA Times ]
  • The corn is as high as a mechanical bull's eye
    by Manohla Dargis [NY Times ]
  • suffocates the audience with redundancy for nearly two hours
    by Ed Gonzalez [Slant Magazine ]
  • looks derivative on paper but plays out with a startling depth of feeling -no small feat
    by Justin Chang [Variety ]
  • like a country song with every other verse removed
    2.5 of 4 by Cathy Jakicic [Milwauke Journal Sentinel ]
  • It's hard to synopsize this movie because it sounds even worse than it actually is
    by Kirk Honeycutt [Hollywood Reporter ]
  • It's a movie that could've been made by a gossip blog
    2 of 4 by Wesley Morris [Boston Globe ]
  • it never commits to the form
    Review rate : C- by Keith Phipps [AV Club ]
  • It achieves that rarest of qualities in our age of snark and knowingness: unintended parody
    2 of 5 by Tom Maurstad [Dallas Morning News ]
  • is awfully weak
    1 of 4 by Colin Covert [Minneapolis Star Tribune ]
  • is a really bad movie
    1.5 of 5 by Robert W. Butler [Kansas City Star ]
  • emotionally potent as it is narratively inconsistent
    2.5 of 4 by Carrie Rickey [Philadelphia Inquirer ]
  • an unintentionally campy drama
    2 of 4 by Kyle Smith [NY Post ]

Reader's Reviews

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