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100
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
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.
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91
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
As a musical biography, Ray is driven by the primal excitement of rock-and-soul at the moment of its discovery.
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90
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Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
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.
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88
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
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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88
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USA Today Mike Clark
Ray could not have been made without star Jamie Foxx.
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80
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Washington Post Desson Thomson
There may not be a bigger-hearted performance this year than Jamie Foxx's in Ray.
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75
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
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.
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70
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The New York Times Dana Stevens
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.
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70
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Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Ray may be too by the numbers, but with Jamie Foxx out front, this is one film that knows how to make it all add up.
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70
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Washington Post
It is to the film's credit -- and Foxx's -- that we are able to see, behind the flash and fury, a man who didn't know how to love, and was so much the lonelier for it.
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