It is like bad Bresson, if that were a possibility. All signifiers and no meaning; all tics and no truths; all mute emoting and no emotion.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 15, 2015

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 22, 2006

Unshakably harrowing but deeply moving.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 16, 2006

The film achieves a dramatic intensity that is both admirable and frustrating.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 16, 2006

When it comes to an emotional payoff at the end, unlike most Hollywood films, it has earned it.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 12, 2006

Lodge Kerrigan is one of the great, though largely unheralded, filmmakers of our time.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005

As good as Lewis is -- and he's in every frame of this 93-minute movie -- it's Kerrigan's astounding gift for addressing the wounded that demands celebration.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 21, 2005

A movie that puts you so far into someone else's head you may have forgotten your own name by the time it's over.

| Sep 30, 2005

Lewis delivers a convincing, powerful and highly nuanced performance as a man who's fighting desperately to keep his illness in check and lead a normal life.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 30, 2005

The movie isn't a crowd-pleaser, but it moves the soul, and that's enough.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 30, 2005

The director is able to rivet us with this small story, simply because he observes it all with such a hard, unblinking gaze.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 29, 2005

Kerrigan's films create worlds of personal obsession.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 29, 2005

Keane is emotionally involving right from the beginning through its final frame.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 24, 2005

Mr. Lewis, a highly talented British actor, displays a flawless American accent in what amounts to a hyper-Wellesian monopolization of screen time and screen space.

| Sep 21, 2005

It's an amazing piece of work.

Full Review | Sep 19, 2005

Kerrigan is without peer at plumbing the violence of the mind.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 16, 2005

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.

Full Review | Sep 15, 2005

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 14, 2005

John Foster's hand-held camera rarely strays from Keane's face. He's loony, all right, but you have to feel sorry for him.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 9, 2005

Kerrigan is as interesting a filmmaker as is haunting the margins of modern life, a place that needs some light. And certainly some sympathy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 8, 2005