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By Joshua Tyler (625) for CinemaBlend (829) on 30 Oct 2004

Suffers from a few of the same pitfalls all biopics do, but succeeds on the eerily accurate work of Jamie Foxx…

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By Frank Ochieng (928) for Movie Eye (513) on 30 Oct 2004

[a] heartfelt and hauntingly poetic biopic. Hackford's potent examination of Ray Charles is profoundly revealing and courageous…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 28 Oct 2004

Foxx is terrific and the music is great, but Ray is an overlong, meat and potatoes biopic with a not particularly likable hero…

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By Teresa Wiltz (40) for Washington Post (9,851) on 28 Oct 2004

To describe Foxx's performance here is to gush, and so gush we will…

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By Paul De Barros (24) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 28 Oct 2004

Enjoy the music -- and Foxx. They're terrific…

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By Geoff Pevere (572) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 28 Oct 2004

A sometimes wobbly blend of the ordinary and the amazing, Ray is nevertheless entirely engaging because of a remarkable central performance…

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By John Venable (339) for Supercala.com (431) on 28 Oct 2004

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,…

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By Eleanor Ringel Cater (614) for Atlanta Journal-Constitution (910) on 28 Oct 2004

Jamie Foxx is incredible as musical giant Ray Charles…

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By Robert Wilonsky (520) for Dallas Observer (1,128) on 28 Oct 2004

If only the movie contained half as much life as Foxx, it would be something truly remarkable -- a movie with soul, rather than one merely about it…

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By David Elliott (754) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 28 Oct 2004

Ray has the sound, drive, heat and wallop of Ray Charles…

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By Jack Mathews (1,044) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 28 Oct 2004

Though he's adapting the same story Grisham always tells, that of an ethical, talented and inexperienced attorney taking on and outwitting…

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By Sean P. Means (2,056) for Salt Lake Tribune (1,927) on 28 Oct 2004

Foxx manages to win the tug-of-war with the melodramatic material, giving a tour-de-force performance…

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By Louis B. Hobson (245) for Jam! Movies (2,396) on 28 Oct 2004

What makes Foxx's performance so remarkable is that he doesn't just get into the skin of this music icon, but into the man's very soul…

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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 28 Oct 2004

The music numbers are lively, the supporting cast solid, and the direction by Taylor Hackford is fully efficient…

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By Jeff Vice (1,455) for Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (1) on 28 Oct 2004

Foxx's spectacular, eerily accurate performance as Charles makes what would have been a rather sketchy movie better…

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By Robert Denerstein (1,148) for Denver Rocky Mountain News (608) on 28 Oct 2004

Foxx gives one of the year's best performances, and early talk about an Oscar nomination is entirely justified…

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By Lawrence Toppman (1,654) for Charlotte Observer (1,670) on 28 Oct 2004

The singer had a hit with 'Drown in My Own Tears,' but he staunchly refused to do that all his life, and Ray honors his spirit…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 28 Oct 2004

The Rainmaker, unlike most Grisham films, doesn't have to drag a high-paid superstar around and give him all the best lines…

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By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 28 Oct 2004

Reductive and simplistic, but whenever Foxx opens his mouth to sing and the voice of Ray Charles comes out, the film is a pleasure…

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By Kit Bowen (393) for Hollywood.com (1,014) on 28 Oct 2004

Wow. Foxx's portrait of the man, the myth, the legend is nothing short of remarkable, a tour de force…

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