Keane 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.
83
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
The movie draws us into complicity with someone who may be on the verge of insanity, but only because he's living with the unbearable.
80
The New RepublicStanley Kauffmann
The New RepublicStanley Kauffmann
Extraordinary--vivid, stripped, intense.
75
New York PostV.A. Musetto
New York PostV.A. Musetto
Lewis, 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."
75
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
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.