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Foxx Elevates Middling Biopicnew
Jamie Foxx, as Ray Charles, brings to this movie what the director occasionally would prefer to leave behind -- the anger and the callousness, the cunning behind the charm. If only the movie contained half as much life as Foxx, it would be something truly remarkable.
Riverfront Times |
Robert Wilonsky |
11-02-2004 |
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Tags: Ray, Taylor Hackford
The Ramones Bopped Toward History and an Unhappy Endnew
This film is a history about the twin mysteries of how two guys who hated each other stayed in a band for more than two decades and how the Ramones managed to influence a million kids to start 250,000 bands without ever having a hit.
Riverfront Times |
Robert Wilonsky |
10-04-2004 |
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