The movie isn't great art, but it has been made with great taste and style; it's more intelligent and observant than movie biographies of singing stars used to be.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
23 Oct 2004
fresh:
Highly conventional stuff, but lovingly constructed to produce unremarkable but heart-warming entertainment.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
fresh:
A thoughtful, endearing film charting the life of singer Loretta Lynn from the depths of poverty in rural Kentucky to her eventual rise to the title of 'queen of country music'.