Bruce Bennett Short Bio

Bruce Bennett

Bruce Bennett has been the primary contributor to Mad About Movies since it began in 2003. He is an award winning film and theater critic who, since 2000, has been writing a weekly column in The Spectrum daily newspaper in southern Utah as well as serving as a contributing editor of “The Independent,” a monthly entertainment magazine. He is also the co-host of “Film Fanatics” a movie review show which earned a Telly in 2009. Bruce is also a featured contributor at: RottenTomatoes.com

His motto: "I see bad movies so you don't have to."

Walk the Line

“Walk the Line” With the Heat of Great Performances

Believe the hype. Joaquin Phoenix as the Man in Black and Reese Witherspoon as his beloved June Carter Cash light up the screen with performances that are the embodiment of Oscar worthy. Phoenix and Witherspoon demonstrate a palpable chemistry, both in the on-stage scenes (where they do all their own singing) and in the depictions of Cash’s offstage troubles.

The film itself is just a little too conventional for its own good: Small town singer makes it big, falls under the spell of booze and pills, and gets his life back on track thanks to the love of a good woman. But it doesn’t matter. The leads are so good, so believable, it’s impossible to look away.

Grade: A
Rated PG-13 for some language, thematic material and depiction of drug dependency

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