Nearly every time I watch a musician biopic, I can’t help but apply a weird test to the movie that I’ve used for the last 18 years - what I like to call the Walk Hard Test. Because in 2007, star John C. Reilly and director Jake Kasdan released what I consider to be the definitive satire of the genre, a decades-spanning commentary on how the movie industry tells stories about performers and the tropes used to make their complicated lives more digestible.

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