3 Stars for the soundtrack. Nice story, but if you're looking for a happy feel-good movie, skip it.

a smoldering gwyneth paltrow brings her patented hot fire to her role in this prequel to the ABC smash hit Nashville. tim mcgraw plays the straight foil who strays into the gaping maw of leighton meesters honey trap. excellent musical accompanyment (highlighted by the bootylicious 'shake that thing') drives this character study towards it's stunning conclusion with a shocking revelation. let this movie into your heart. i promise it wont abort you like baby killer kelly.

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw, Leighton Meester and Garrett Hedlund all deliver amazing performances in Country Strong. For fans of country music, you get some great songs and none of them feel forced or false. And for people looking for a great story, this one delivers a strong tale. I highly recommend the movie to anyone who can live with country music dominating the soundtrack. It’s worth your time.

I was surprised that I liked Country Strong.
But a bit of a downer.

I usually watch this movie at least once or twice a year. I freaking love it.

There are not as many movies out there as character driven as Country Strong. I think I like all the main headliners from this, they all bring something to the table.

Finally, how isn't Garrett Hedlund making more movies? He's one of the best actors around. Whatever movie this guy is in, he scene steals it. Alright, maybe I got a little man crush on Hedlund, but he's still so underrated.

And I think I'm still the only Letterboxd user to rate this as high as 5 stars.

I really have no idea what anyone was going for here. Incredibly melodramatic, super cheesy - this felt more like a Lifetime movie than a major motion picture. Terrible direction as well. Leighton Meester and Garrett Hedlund weren't completely awful but their storyline also seemed like it was out of a different movie. Unintentionally hilarious ending. Just weird.

a smoldering gwyneth paltrow brings her patented hot fire to her role in this prequel to the ABC smash hit Nashville. tim mcgraw plays the straight foil who strays into the gaping maw of leighton meesters honey trap. excellent musical accompanyment (highlighted by the bootylicious 'shake that thing') drives this character study towards it's stunning conclusion with a shocking revelation. let this movie into your heart. i promise it wont abort you like baby killer kelly.

The music is great, despite it being country, and the movie really works when it focuses on Meester and Hedlund. But Paltrow is horrible. She is given the least screen time of the 4 leads, and we never are really told why she's so batshit crazy!

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

En lite oväntad pärla. Det är inte alltid jag förstår karaktärerna, men det är välspelat och underhållande hela tiden - och musiken är bra.

Not a country and western fan, I did nevertheless enjoy this heart-tugging film. Paltrow is believeable as the country star just out of rehab and on the comeback trail. Garrett Hedlund looks like he needs a shower and the new kid on the block has more make-up on than Gene Simmons. Never saw that ending coming though.

Country Strong,” is a melodrama about a country-western superstar Kelly ( Gwyneth Paltrow) singing and weeping her way back from another period in rehab to the shine of the stage. It’s an ok movie, and Tim McGraw is actually good, playing a manipulative, but yet sympathetic, husband to Kelly. I was hoping this would be a mix between Valley of the Dolls and the last 10 years of Lindsay Lohan’s and Britney Spear’s lives, but sadly no. Like so many movies before, I’m left with the lesson from the 1937’s movie A Start Is Born- success and women don’t mix.