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Country Strong

2010

Shana Feste

Gwyneth Paltrow, Leighton Meester, Garrett Hedlund, Tim McGraw ...

5.4

1,703

Drama. Musical A drama centered on a rising country-music songwriter (Hedlund) who sparks with a fallen star (Gwyneth Paltrow). Together, they mount his ascent and her comeback, which leads to romantic complications involving her husband/manager (Tim McGraw) and a beauty queen-turned-singer (Leighton Meester).

	Author	Review
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"Feste (...) fails here to do the most basic thing -- give an audience a rooting interest, or any interest at all, in these four troubled people"	NEG
United States	Joe Morgenstern The Wall Street Journal	"Paltrow deserves better than the clichés that bedevil "Country Strong" (...) The film works best when the music takes over"	NEU
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Feste has said that Britney Spears was the actual inspiration for 'Country Strong,' which perhaps helps explain its generic quality."	NEG
United States	Betsy Sharkey Los Angeles Times	"[Feste] has a way with dialogue that could turn her into a force if she can ever get the balance right and send the obvious packing."	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"One of the best movies of 1957 (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"[The cast] is sucked dry of any juice by Shana Feste, whose script is laughably inauthentic and whose direction marshals clichés as if they were freshly minted (…) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Keith Phipps AV Club	"It never commits to much of anything. Characters’ motivations, even their personalities, shift from scene to scene."	NEG

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