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

... It never rings true, a portrait of grief afraid to confront itself in any real way.

| Original Score: C- | Oct 22, 2022

Garcia, the son of novelist Gabriel García Márquez, has made some good movies – “Nine Lives” (2005), “Albert Nobbs” (2011), the HBO series “In Treatment” – and some misfires, but this is the first time it feels like he’s running on autopilot.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 21, 2022

A vamping, oddly inert dramedy that never for a moment transcends its paper-doll characters and forced quirkiness.

| Original Score: C- | Oct 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.

| Oct 21, 2022

Ewan McGregor and Ethan Hawke are outstanding in "Raymond & Ray," a movie that gives them the chance to focus on developing their characters rather than serving the whims of a plot.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 21, 2022

Ewan McGregor and Ethan Hawke show great rapport.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 20, 2022

“Raymond & Ray” is a restless seeker of a movie. There are far too few of those, which should make us all the more grateful to have this one.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 20, 2022

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

| Original Score: B- | Oct 20, 2022

A funeral-as-exorcism movie, as inert as the image of the detested parent, sprawled naked in his coffin — a man so carelessly cruel he gave both brothers the same name.

| Oct 20, 2022

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

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 20, 2022

Rodrigo García’s film is fastidious, tidy, and lifeless, with every obligatory gesture in its place.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 18, 2022

An exercise in melancholic quirkiness that increasingly trades honest feeling for trite situations.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 18, 2022

It gets really silly and mawkish.

| Oct 15, 2022

Ewan McGregor and Ethan Hawke, both 51, make for an odd pair of estranged half-brothers sleepwalking through life.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 14, 2022

In the end, Raymond & Ray doesn’t really get to know anyone, merely pushing them toward the inevitable finish line.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 19, 2022

Despite some mild humor and A-list talent, Rodrigo García's ham-fisted story of grief and family feels too listless and inauthentic to matter.

| Sep 16, 2022

The screenplay starts out strong, but then it becomes a slog. It’s impossible to discern which scene, if any, García has designated to be the climax, because the plot remains flat throughout.

| Sep 15, 2022

A winning delve into contemporary masculinity and all its quirks that is as tenderly observed as it is laugh-out-loud funny.

| Sep 14, 2022