McGregor’s and Hawke’s performances are raw, walking different lines between grief, hurt, and indifference. But their interactions often feel empty. A flat script does little to buoy them.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jul 20, 2024

Raymond & Ray succeeds as a cathartic and tender venture into gallows humour that charms just as much as it moves. It’s an insightful look at grief, reconciliation, and the empty, circus-like process of modern grieving.

| Nov 2, 2023

In the course of the film, each meets a woman who turns out to be sympathetic to their needs, a slightly schematic plot device that nevertheless works out thanks to the caliber of the cast.

| Sep 25, 2023

it's perhaps not surprising that Rodrigo Garcia's Raymond and Ray is a really solid, intimate drama that is so very at home on the small screen.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 16, 2023

The cast does all the heavy lifting, while the dark comedy attempts to make the plot more gripping than it is.

| Jul 23, 2023

Raymond And Ray had a great foundation, with an interesting concept at the core, but it fails to realize the full potential of what it could have been.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Jan 4, 2023

But if Hawke is mostly coasting, it's McGregor that seems ill at ease. His Raymond is only intermittently convincing in his frustration, but his interactions with Hawke and the good-natured meandering are enough to buoy an overly maudlin third act.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 15, 2022

The film stands out for its dark humor. [Full review in Spanish] lala

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 29, 2022

Ethan Hawke and Ewan McGregor demonstrate a real chemistry on screen as Raymond and Ray, in this new Apple original feature. Half-brothers who literally bond over their father's grave. Darkly comic, delicately tragic and shot through with genuine pathos.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 23, 2022

The problem lies in what’s being shoveled, and it ain’t dirt.

| Original Score: C | Nov 15, 2022

Hawke and McGregor deliver solid performances. The problem lies with García’s story which doesn’t utilize the actors to their full capacity. Coasts along with bouts of comedy, and an occasional traumatic tremor, but no real earthquake-shaking moments.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 8, 2022

Raymond & Ray restores the adventure of self-revelation that movies have forsaken for politicized virtue-signaling.

| Nov 4, 2022

This film never rises to anything beyond average, which is disappointing...

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 2, 2022

Ewan McGregor and Ethan Hawke elevate Raymond & Ray through sheer charisma, but it’s unable to overcome a story packed with cliches.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 2, 2022

It feels like what it is: A movie written for film festivals that will wind up in a streaming network where it will probably quietly languish in obscurity, save for Ethan Hawke and Ewan McGregor completists.

| Oct 27, 2022

Hawke and McGregor appear to revel in riffing off each other... However, despite a sparkling, scene-stealing turn from former Y tu mama tambien star Verdu this never truly compels.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 26, 2022

Raymond & Ray does have its moments, but it seems obsessed with trying to be different when it’s basically just warming up leftovers.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 26, 2022

The third act is clunky and disappointing, as both men coincidentally encounter women who have been crudely shoehorned into the narrative solely to smooth our boys’ furrowed brows and, well, to cure them.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 26, 2022

McGregor & Hawke are both good here. So good its easy to wish the film did not keep introducing new characters, aside from Sophie Okenedo’s standout scenes, so their characters could individually discover their process of grief, or lack thereof, together.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 26, 2022

Hawke/McGregor have balanced chemistry and I loved the quirkiness of it, amidst a high drama plot that has been seen before. It is Rodrigo Garcia's touches that make this an entertaining redemption story, and Maribel Verdú is a major force. Brothers!

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 26, 2022