Average Rating: 7.3/10
Reviews Counted: 196
Fresh: 159 | Rotten: 37
Critics can't stop loving Jamie Foxx's performance in Ray, which is being hailed as an engrossing and energetic take on Charles' achievements and demons.
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Critic Reviews: 41
Fresh: 35 | Rotten: 6
Critics can't stop loving Jamie Foxx's performance in Ray, which is being hailed as an engrossing and energetic take on Charles' achievements and demons.
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Directed by Taylor Hackford, this biopic profiles the life of legendary musician Ray Charles. Despite humble beginnings and the loss of his eyesight due to glaucoma at the age of six, Charles, depicted by Jamie Foxx, would nonetheless become an icon in both the music industry and the civil rights era. While the film delves into his problems with drugs and women, the bulk of the story details his career; among the highlights of that career are 12 Grammy awards and 11 R&B chart-toppers, such as
Oct 29, 2004 Wide
Feb 1, 2005
$75.2M
Universal Pictures
All Critics (205) | Top Critics (42) | Fresh (165) | Rotten (38) | DVD (42)
Jamie Foxx's all-encompassing performance in the title role more than justifies the early Oscar gossip it has generated.
Eminently worth seeing.
Vibrantly intelligent and tough-minded.
Sure, it's the Jamie Foxx breakout role. But the movie around it is so systematically 'inspirational' that it comes perilously close to sabotaging the breakout.
Foxx does what he's supposed to. He steals his own show.
To describe Foxx's performance here is to gush, and so gush we will.
A powerhouse performance piece for Jamie Foxx and a rock solid biopic.
Excellent portrayal of extraordinary musician.
Jamie Foxx is excellent, and sturdily supported by [James L.] White's script all the way.
Potent and vibrant as far as the music goes, but reticent, self-conscious and pretty much stuck on unexplored surfaces when it comes to this creative giant's complex life and times.
Potent and vibrant as far as the music goes, but reticent, self-conscious and pretty much stuck on unexplored surfaces when it comes to this creative giant's complex life and times.
The directing is sure-handed, the script intelligent, and the acting strong, especially the amazing performance from Foxx.
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Taylor Hackford has crafted one of the best biopics of a musician since Clint Eastwood's Bird. Jamie Foxx gives the performance of his career in the lead role of Ray Charles. This is a well crafted biopic and there are some very strong performances alongside that of Jamie Foxx. Ray is a superb film that has a near
December 13, 2011
Super Reviewer
Occasionally slushy, perhaps a shade on the long side, but very well acted and solidly entertaining nevertheless. Certainly a better portrait of Ray Charles than one would've expected.
October 5, 2011Super Reviewer
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