Roger Ebert's review
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- Roger Ebert gave the film two and a half stars.
- The quoted review calls Country Strong one of the best movies of 1957, meant sincerely as a compliment, contrasting it with Natalie Portman "mentally disemboweling herself for art," whom Ebert admired and expected to earn an Oscar nomination.
- The review describes the film as a throwback 1950s melodrama built from stock elements: a depressed heroine, a manipulating husband, an ambivalent other man, and a young Eve Harrington waiting in the wings.
- The review is praised as one of Ebert's best: the movie is old-school, released when movies were in their Black Swan stage.