79
Metascore
23 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonVillage VoiceMichael AtkinsonKeane 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.
- 83Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe movie draws us into complicity with someone who may be on the verge of insanity, but only because he's living with the unbearable.
- 80The New RepublicStanley KauffmannThe New RepublicStanley KauffmannExtraordinary--vivid, stripped, intense.
- 75New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoLewis, 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."
- 75New York Daily NewsJack MathewsNew York Daily NewsJack MathewsKeane is a movie you might see on a dare, and though I think it is brilliantly conceived, I wouldn't dare to dare you.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenThe Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenA spare, claustrophobic film.
- 70VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyConvincing as a portrait of a marginal man gone beyond the emotional pale.
- 70The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasThroughout Keane, there's an unnerving feeling that Lewis is capable of anything, from harming himself to assaulting anyone around him.
- 70The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisMr. Kerrigan isn't just playing with our sympathies; he's also playing with our assumptions. That keeps the tension going.
- 70TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTV Guide MagazineKen FoxHarrowing but enormously empathetic.