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By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 27 Oct 2004

Jamie Foxx's inhabitance of Charles is a work of transformation that rockets beyond the weight gain, gender switching or beauty-trapping ugly…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 27 Oct 2004

Slick, oversized (at 153 minutes), ostensibly warts-and-all but actually quite reverential, the movie is nonetheless quite enjoyable, thanks…

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By Rebecca Murray (740) for About.com (1,470) on 27 Oct 2004

Despite its flaws, Ray is a compelling drama chock-full of some of the best performances of 2004…

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By Willie Waffle (1,383) for WaffleMovies.com (1,380) on 26 Oct 2004

Amazing isn't a strong enough or descriptive enough word to convey the magnificence and mastery of Foxx's performance, and he even lip-sychs…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Oct 2004

Foxx's mannered performance fails to convey the complexities beneath Charles's trademark twitches…

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By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 26 Oct 2004

A movie with half the 150-minute running time could have done just as much unchaining…

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By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 26 Oct 2004

A great performance does not make a biopic great...a biopic needs to be like Ray Charles - departing from formula and daring to be different…

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By Steve Rhodes (1,488) for Internet Reviews (1,487) on 26 Oct 2004

What works consistently and always in the film are the musical numbers, which are energetic and soulful, sung by the master himself…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 26 Oct 2004

Ray is the rare Hollywood biopic that does justice to the heroism, as well as the demons, of an American genius…

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By Sean O'connell (919) for Filmcritic.com (3,164) on 26 Oct 2004

A greatest hits compilation that's missing a few tunes…

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By Dustin Putman (2,479) for TheFilmFile.com (2,314) on 26 Oct 2004

A disappointingly unoriginal and one-note biography of a man and his life that were anything but…

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By Victoria Alexander (762) for FilmsInReview.com (462) on 25 Oct 2004

A beloved artist unwinds with a parade of women and the needle…

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By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 23 Oct 2004

Worth seeing, mostly for its colorful period design and lively musical numbers, but this version of the official story takes some wrong turns…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 20 Oct 2004

Jamie Foxx gets so far inside the man and his music that he and Ray Charles seem to breathe as one…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for Variety (12,700) on 28 Sep 2004

As carefully constructed, handsomely crafted and flavorsomely acted as a top-of-the-line production from Hollywood's classical studio era,…

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