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90Keane is a painfully specific figure but at the same time a totem, lean and frightening, for a morass of modern anxieties. That might be this phenomenal film's emergent achievement: Its raw hopelessness is its universality.
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90This isn't entertainment in any conventional sense, but it's a mesmerizing film all the same.
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90May be too much suspense for some, but it's vividly powerful.
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89Lodge Kerrigan is one of the great, though largely unheralded, filmmakers of our time, and with Keane, his third feature, he finally shows himself to be in full command of his uncompromising talent.
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88Keane is played by Damian Lewis. Here he inhabits an edge of madness that Lodge Kerrigan understands with a fierce sympathy.
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88If Keane is a downer, it's a stupendously well-conceived one.
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83The movie draws us into complicity with someone who may be on the verge of insanity, but only because he's living with the unbearable.
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83Affliction has rarely been so sensitively explored.
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80British actor Damian 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.
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80A wholly unexpected and ultimately gratifying experience.
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80Extraordinary--vivid, stripped, intense.
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80Kerrigan returns with his best work to date, at least in terms of narrative drive and suspense.
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75Keane means to shakes us, and does.
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75The first 10 minutes of Lodge Kerrigan's Keane have a raw, hurtling reality that's as painfully engrossing as anything you'll see in a recent non-fiction movie, a searing portrait of one man's hell, from inside and outside.
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75Keane is a movie you might see on a dare, and though I think it is brilliantly conceived, I wouldn't dare to dare you.
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75Lewis, from the TV series "Band of Brothers," gives a super performance, but the revelation here is young Breslin, who was in Garry Marshall's "Raising Helen" and M. Night Shyamalan's "Signs."
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75Taut and suspenseful.
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70A spare, claustrophobic film.
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70Harrowing but enormously empathetic.
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70Throughout Keane, there's an unnerving feeling that Lewis is capable of anything, from harming himself to assaulting anyone around him.
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70Mr. Kerrigan isn't just playing with our sympathies; he's also playing with our assumptions. That keeps the tension going.
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70Convincing as a portrait of a marginal man gone beyond the emotional pale.
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60Persevere through the sluggish first two acts and you'll be rewarded with a touching relationship perfectly acted by Lewis and Breslin.
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