features an outstanding performance by Jamie Foxx in the title role, luscious production design and of course, all of that great Ray Charles music.
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Reviews Counted:190
Fresh:155
Rotten:35
Average Rating:7.3/10
Consensus: 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.
Theatrical Release:Oct 29, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $75,236,415
Synopsis: Ray is the never-before-told, musical biographical drama of American legend Ray Charles. Featuring a remarkable performance from Jamie Foxx in the central role, Ray follows the inspiring story of a... [More]
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Regina King, Kerry Washington, Curtis Armstrong
Director: Taylor Hackford
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Reviews for Ray
With his performance as Ray Charles, [Jamie Foxx] has proven himself worthy of being in the front ranks of contemporary movie actors.
11/01/04
Despite its formulaic filmmaking and redundancies, Ray can be a blast to watch.
10/31/04
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.
10/31/04
Top CriticSuffers from a few of the same pitfalls all biopics do, but succeeds on the eerily accurate work of Jamie Foxx.
10/31/04
...[a] heartfelt and hauntingly poetic biopic. Hackford’s potent examination of Ray Charles is profoundly revealing and courageous
10/31/04
Ray never misses a beat.
10/31/04
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10/30/04
Foxx, like Will Smith in Ali, has perfected a party trick rather than a performance. Give him some sunglasses, let him rock back and forth, and he does a great Ray Charles.
10/29/04
Foxx is terrific and the music is great, but Ray is an overlong, meat and potatoes biopic with a not particularly likable hero
10/29/04
Foxx does what he's supposed to. He steals his own show.
10/29/04
Top CriticTo describe Foxx's performance here is to gush, and so gush we will.
10/29/04
When [the music isn't playing], the film seems conventional, unimaginative and stretched out well beyond its ability to sustain narrative momentum.
10/29/04
Ultimately, the real reason to see the film is for Foxx's world-caliber performance: He doesn't just impersonate Charles, he actually seems to be channeling him.
10/29/04
Enjoy the music -- and Foxx. They're terrific.
10/29/04
A sometimes wobbly blend of the ordinary and the amazing, Ray is nevertheless entirely engaging because of a remarkable central performance and a smartly lived-up-to promise.
10/29/04
Top Critic...although Foxx's performance may go down as one of the best in a biopic ever, I feel as though the film itself will be remembered as good, but not great.
10/29/04
Jamie Foxx is incredible as musical giant Ray Charles.
10/29/04
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10/29/04
So provocative, magnetic, supremely cool, and hard-edged was he, that Ray, the movie, could never measure up to the genius himself.
10/29/04
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