Raymond & Ray

"A silly, pointless movie which never delivers on its promises of drama and comedy and contains not a single funny or believable moment."

"Only the efforts of Ewan McGregor and, especially, Ethan Hawke... save this doleful drama from sinking entirely into bathos."

"Hawke... is typically fantastic, adding depth and nuance to Ray that isn’t there on the page."

"Despite a sparkling, scene-stealing turn from former Y tu mama tambien star Verdu this never truly compels..."

"(McGregor and Hawke) play beautifully off one another in writer-director Rodrigo Garcia’s offbeat gem..."

"Only Hawke’s performance comes close to rescuing the film."

"The cast of Raymond & Ray is outstanding... But Garcia holds back too much, perhaps trying to avoid any phony epiphanies."

"(Lucia and Kiera) have been crudely shoehorned into the narrative solely to smooth our boys’ furrowed brows and, well, to cure them...."

"For the most part, Raymond And Ray reaffirms the filmmaker’s command of gentle, emotionally complex human portraiture."

"In addition to poor dialogue and strange acting choices, (the film) is visually rather pedestrian."