Highest rated movie: Tom Dowd & The Language of Music (2004)
Lowest rated movie: Spy Hard (1996)
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Looking for reviews of Ray Charles movies? Cinafilm has a total of 1,293 reviews across 11 movies.
Movies starring Ray Charles have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 66%.
Tom Dowd & The Language of Music - released in 2004 - is Ray Charles's highest rated movie, with a score of 82% based on 44 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Ray Charles is Spy Hard - released in 1996 - with a score of 43% based on 367 reviews.
Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), better known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records. He also helped racially integrate country and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, most notably with his Modern Sounds albums. While with ABC, Charles became one of the first African-American musicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company. Frank Sinatra called Charles “the only true genius in show business.”
Rolling Stone ranked Charles number 10 on their list of "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" in 2004, and number two on their November 2008 list of "100 Greatest Singers of All Time". In honoring Charles, Billy Joel noted: "This may sound like sacrilege, but I think Ray Charles was more important than Elvis Presley. I don't know if Ray was the architect of rock & roll, but he was certainly the first guy to do a lot of things . . . Who the hell ever put so many styles together and made it work?
Ray Charles has acted in films with Aretha Franklin, Steven Spielberg, Frank Oz and George Harrison.
Ray Charles has worked with these film directors: John Landis, Paul Henreid, Glenn Gordon Caron and Don Mischer.
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