1. 'Overlong, but what makes the film's length more endurable is the impeccable acting of its cast.'
2. Ray boasts a great smorgasbord of music and a fine performance by Jamie Foxx but is hobbled by a mediocre screenplay and its long playing time.
3. An emphatically entertaining, toe-tapping cautionary tale about how drug addiction is more crippling than any physical handicap.
4. It's the music that keeps me drawn into the film, followed closely by Jamie Foxx's soulful (in both senses of the word) performance.
5. Anchored by Foxx's astonishingly powerful performance, this moving and engaging biographical film ... is also director Hackford's finest film.
6. '...the audience feels as though this is the real Ray Charles playing himself. I can't say anything more than that in tribute to Jamie Foxx's outstanding work.'
7. Eminently worth seeing.
8. Jamie Foxx's all-encompassing performance in the title role more than justifies the early Oscar gossip it has generated.
9. [Foxx's] peerless work elevates this otherwise ordinary biopic, which is plagued by stiff dialogue and hokey imagery.
10. ...a case of a star performance outshining the movie. Foxx is like a virtuoso headline act backed up by a band that wanders in and out of key.
What is the consensus?
An engrossing and energetic portrait of a great musician's achievements and foibles, Ray is anchored by Jamie Foxx's stunning performance as Ray Charles.