Keane
ARP Sélection | Release Date: September 9, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
79
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Generally favorable reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews
Positive:
22
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0
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90
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
Keane is a painfully specific figure but at the same time a totem, lean and frightening, for a morass of modern anxieties. That might be this phenomenal film's emergent achievement: Its raw hopelessness is its universality. Read full review
90
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
This isn't entertainment in any conventional sense, but it's a mesmerizing film all the same.
90
Washington PostStephen Hunter
May be too much suspense for some, but it's vividly powerful. Read full review
89
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
Lodge Kerrigan is one of the great, though largely unheralded, filmmakers of our time, and with Keane, his third feature, he finally shows himself to be in full command of his uncompromising talent. Read full review
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Keane is played by Damian Lewis. Here he inhabits an edge of madness that Lodge Kerrigan understands with a fierce sympathy. Read full review
88
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
If Keane is a downer, it's a stupendously well-conceived one. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
The movie draws us into complicity with someone who may be on the verge of insanity, but only because he's living with the unbearable. Read full review
83
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
Affliction has rarely been so sensitively explored. Read full review
80
The New RepublicStanley Kauffmann
Extraordinary--vivid, stripped, intense. Read full review
80
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
British actor Damian Lewis, in an astonishingly elastic yet disciplined performance, invests Keane with a richly ambiguous, heartbreaking inner life that's only at peace when he manages to form a tenuous human connection. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
A wholly unexpected and ultimately gratifying experience. Read full review
80
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Kerrigan returns with his best work to date, at least in terms of narrative drive and suspense. Read full review
75
New York PostV.A. Musetto
Lewis, from the TV series "Band of Brothers," gives a super performance, but the revelation here is young Breslin, who was in Garry Marshall's "Raising Helen" and M. Night Shyamalan's "Signs." Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Keane is a movie you might see on a dare, and though I think it is brilliantly conceived, I wouldn't dare to dare you. Read full review
75
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Keane means to shakes us, and does. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
The first 10 minutes of Lodge Kerrigan's Keane have a raw, hurtling reality that's as painfully engrossing as anything you'll see in a recent non-fiction movie, a searing portrait of one man's hell, from inside and outside. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleJohn McMurtrie
Taut and suspenseful. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
A spare, claustrophobic film. Read full review
70
VarietyTodd McCarthy
Convincing as a portrait of a marginal man gone beyond the emotional pale. Read full review
70
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Throughout Keane, there's an unnerving feeling that Lewis is capable of anything, from harming himself to assaulting anyone around him. Read full review
70
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
Mr. Kerrigan isn't just playing with our sympathies; he's also playing with our assumptions. That keeps the tension going. Read full review
70
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Harrowing but enormously empathetic. Read full review
60
EmpireOlly Richards
Persevere through the sluggish first two acts and you'll be rewarded with a touching relationship perfectly acted by Lewis and Breslin. Read full review
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