Raymond & Ray
Apple TV+ | Release Date (Streaming): October 21, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
13
Negative:
2
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40
SlashfilmHoai-Tran BuiDec 12, 2022
It wastes the potential silver screen magic you could have by casting Hawke and McGregor as once-close brothers who are forced together by a death that they both have difficulty grieving. Read full review
80
We Got This CoveredMartin CarrOct 24, 2022
Darkly comic, delicately tragic, and shot through with genuine pathos - 'Raymond and Ray' is a real treat. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayOct 21, 2022
Garcia holds back too much, perhaps trying to avoid any phony epiphanies. As a result, his two main characters are too preoccupied with re-litigating old grudges to do or say anything notable. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattOct 21, 2022
The whole thing is so airless and hollowly constructed, so full of mimed but unfelt feelings, that it's a relief to put this body in the ground and forever hold your peace. Read full review
20
The GuardianPeter BradshawOct 20, 2022
Here is a terribly meagre experience from writer-director Rodrigo García, a silly, pointless movie which never delivers on its promises of drama and comedy and contains not a single funny or believable moment. As a filmic meal, it is pretty much entirely without nutritional or calorific value. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeMark FeeneyOct 20, 2022
This one has a tang and texture and rare sense of everyday epiphany. Just when you think you’ve got it figured out, you find out you’ve figured wrong. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubBrett BuckalewOct 20, 2022
While Raymond And Ray registers nicely as a relaxed, compassionate character study, there’s no denying that one of the two central characters being studied hugely outshines the other. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneNina MetzOct 20, 2022
Hawke and McGregor are the kind of actors who hold your attention as the story evaporates around them. Even so, they deserve far more to play with than they get here. Read full review
40
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisOct 20, 2022
Only the efforts of Ewan McGregor and, especially, Ethan Hawke, as the estranged half brothers of the title, save this doleful drama from sinking entirely into bathos. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineChuck BowenOct 19, 2022
Rodrigo García’s film is fastidious, tidy, and lifeless, with every obligatory gesture in its place. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonOct 17, 2022
Raymond & Ray aims for the kind of gentle, offbeat wistfulness of a “Little Miss Sunshine” or “Sunshine Cleaning,” but with uncomfortable awkwardness instead of eccentric ingenuity. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperOct 17, 2022
The Scotsman who often plays majestic characters and the Texan who specializes in playing antiheroes play beautifully off one another in writer-director Rodrigo Garcia’s offbeat gem, which starts like an adaptation of a Sam Shepard play before eventually settling into something a little more conventional, but nonetheless satisfying. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreOct 17, 2022
The simple pleasure of seeing Ethan Hawke and Ewan McGregor paired-up as brothers by different mothers does the heavy lifting of Raymond & Ray, a downbeat dramedy about their dead father’s last wish. Read full review
60
Screen RantRachel LaBonteOct 14, 2022
Anchored by two great lead performances, Raymond & Ray is at its best when exploring the odd relationships between its complicated characters. Read full review
42
ColliderRoss BonaimeSep 27, 2022
García’s latest film is a predictable, completely fine, but uneventful dramedy that never quite finds a way to dig itself out of mediocrity. Read full review
42
The Film StageC.J. PrinceSep 26, 2022
Raymond and Ray, while far from terrible, is more damning for how content it is with mediocrity. We know Garcia and his cast are capable of much better—they’ve done it. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoSep 19, 2022
In the end, Raymond & Ray doesn’t really get to know anyone, merely pushing them toward the inevitable finish line, where they can start their new life chapters with the father who defined them for decades in the rearview mirror. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenSep 17, 2022
As tenderly observed as it is laugh-out-loud funny. Read full review
42
The PlaylistMarya E. GatesSep 17, 2022
Unfortunately, aside from the always reliable Hawke and Okonedo, there isn’t much to praise about this deadpan dark comedy, which is miscalculated on almost every level. Read full review
70
Screen DailyAllan HunterSep 17, 2022
The predictable route to resolution does offer some surprises along the way, and is anchored by nuanced, rock solid performances from the ever reliable Ethan Hawke and Ewan McGregor. Read full review
75
UproxxMike RyanSep 17, 2022
Both McGregor and Hawke seem to be having a nice time with each other. Part road trip movie, part “watch these two knuckleheads do wacky things because of their anger and grief,” they contemplate each other well, to the point I hope they make more movies together. Read full review
50
VarietyTomris LafflySep 17, 2022
Raymond & Ray is curiously alienating despite the two A-listers in the driver seat, some decent chuckles to spare and a handsome, cinematic finish courtesy of DP Igor Jadue-Lillo. Read full review
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