A movie review from The Movie Snob:

Ray (A-). I thought this movie was quite a bit more successful than Beyond the Sea, another recent biopic about a popular singer. Part of the reason must be that Ray Charles’s life was simply much more dramatic than Bobby Darin’s. Charles had far more obstacles to overcome than Darin did, and he compounded them with self-inflicted wounds that Darin seemed for the most part to avoid. Add to the more interesting subject matter the outstanding performance by Jamie Foxx, and you have a superior movie. It covers only a relatively small span of Charles’s life, from roughly 1948 to 1962 (plus several flashbacks to his childhood), but you get the sense that those were probably the most fertile (and turbulent) years of his career and life. Highly recommended.