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Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: The director is able to rivet us with this small story, simply because he observes it all with such a hard, unblinking gaze. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: It's an amazing piece of work. Read more
Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic: When it comes to an emotional payoff at the end, unlike most Hollywood films, it has earned it. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: The movie isn't a crowd-pleaser, but it moves the soul, and that's enough. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Keane is emotionally involving right from the beginning through its final frame. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: As good as Lewis is -- and he's in every frame of this 93-minute movie -- it's Kerrigan's astounding gift for addressing the wounded that demands celebration. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Keane, Kerrigan's third feature, is his real breakthrough. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: 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. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: Kerrigan is as interesting a filmmaker as is haunting the margins of modern life, a place that needs some light. And certainly some sympathy. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: 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. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: Lodge Kerrigan is a director worth watching, and Keane is a small wonder in a season of big but deadly, brainless blockbusters. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Mr. Lewis, a highly talented British actor, displays a flawless American accent in what amounts to a hyper-Wellesian monopolization of screen time and screen space. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: Mr. Kerrigan both gives us a life at the edge of the abyss and pulls off an extremely deft narrative sleight of hand. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Lewis makes Keane's paranoia our paranoia. Kerrigan limits our world to his world. And that's how this grimly shot, roughly felt drama pulls us in. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Kerrigan's films create worlds of personal obsession. Read more
John McMurtrie, San Francisco Chronicle: Lewis delivers a convincing, powerful and highly nuanced performance as a man who's fighting desperately to keep his illness in check and lead a normal life. Read more
Kate Taylor, Globe and Mail: The film achieves a dramatic intensity that is both admirable and frustrating. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Unshakably harrowing but deeply moving. Read more
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: That might be this phenomenal film's emergent achievement: Its raw hopelessness is its universality. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: A movie that puts you so far into someone else's head you may have forgotten your own name by the time it's over. Read more