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Foxx Elevates Middling Biopic

Riverfront Times | November 2, 2004

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.

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Tags: Ray, Taylor Hackford

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