Ray Critic Reviews

The movie would be worth seeing simply for the sound of the music and the sight of Jamie Foxx performing it. That it looks deeper and gives us a sense of the man himself is what makes it special.Read the full review

As a musical biography, Ray is driven by the primal excitement of rock-and-soul at the moment of its discovery.Read the full review

At the center of it all is an incomparable singer brought to life by a sensational actor. With a huge soul to fill, Jamie Foxx has filled it to overflowing.Read the full review

Ray could not have been made without star Jamie Foxx.Read the full review

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

Bursting at the seams with music, Taylor Hackford's ambitious film provides a good sense of the pioneering entertainer's extraordinary journey and brings it to life with plenty of colorful detail.Read the full review

There may not be a bigger-hearted performance this year than Jamie Foxx's in Ray.Read the full review

Foxx's complex performance and the filmmaker's willingness to look at the dark side place Ray safely out of the realm of typical Hollywood hagiography.Read the full review

While not a great movie, is a very good movie about greatness, in which celebrating the achievement of one major artist becomes the occasion for the emergence of another.Read the full review