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Damian Lewis is absolutely fearless in the lead [in Keane], and though I'm not crazy about the way Kerrigan whip-pans during two character scenes, the movie has a concentration and integrity that's unimpeachable.
-- Glenn Kenny (article author), Premiere, January 2005
Quite possibly the strongest performance of the year, in Lodge Kerrigan's indie drama Keane,... Lewis seems to live his role as the father of a missing girl, working from dissociative misery through a gradual, torturous redemption that approaches transcendence -- but with the specter of far greater horrors in wait.
-- Scott Manzler, Nashvillescene.com, January 2005
Kerrigan's films demand a strong central performance, and this time [in Keane] that responsibility falls on the shoulders of Damian Lewis (a standout in Band of Brothers). It's a film that may not be a comfortable experience, but it's certain to be a stimulating one.
-- Dan Krovich, Boxofficeprophets.com, January 11, 2005
The beauty of this movie [Keane] rests on some great moments which can be attributed to Damian Lewis' haunting performance.
-- bjduncan25 (message author), IMDB.com message board for Keane, March 6, 2005
Of the men [in Colditz], it's Lewis who shines as the dastardly Nick. Bad as he is, it's difficult to resist his charms early on -- after all, all's fair in love and war, as the saying goes. However, his final act of betrayal shows him for the nasty piece of work he really is and ultimately, guarantees his downfall. And Lewis plays it to the hilt.
-- Lizzie Guilfoyle (article author), Indielondon.co.uk, April 2005
William Keane, performed exceptionally by Damian Lewis, is a father struggling with the abduction of his own daughter and battling demons as he tries to come to terms with the resulting grief.
-- Brian Brooks (article author), Indiewire.com, May 6, 2005
If there's any justice, Michael Pitt will] surely be a contender for the Best Actor prize [for "Last Days"]. The same would probably hold true for Damian Lewis, the lead in Lodge Kerrigan's "Keane," were the film in competition rather than in the Directors' Fortnight. ... It's a tough movie, but powerful and compassionate; indeed, it's probably the best movie I've seen in Cannes so far.
-- Geoff Andrew (article author), Timeout.com, May 13, 2005
Watch out for: Damian Lewis, who is over from London to watch the three films he has running in Cannes. In Keane, he gives an intensely powerful performance as an American drifter who befriends a young girl. He's also in Brides and he's part of the ensemble cast (also including Kristin Scott Thomas, Penelope Cruz, Rhys Ifans, Ben Chaplin and Ralph Fiennes) which director Martha Fiennes gathered for the festival's closing night picture, Chromophobia.
-- [article author, name unrecorded], Daily Mail, May 13, 2005
Husband Marcus Aylesbury (Damian Lewis, in one of the film's [Chromophobia] stand-out performances) is an upper-class lad, a lawyer who is caught uncomfortably between a slumming Essex twang and the plummy vowels of his Law Lord father (Ian Hart), between stag hunting and the college rock band he once played in with investigative journo Trent (Ben Chaplin).
-- Lee Marshall (article author), Screen Daily, May 27, 2005
Damian Lewis ... gives an emotionally charged, impassioned performance as the tormented William Keene. His performance seems even more riveting considering the intrusive camera attention he's given. It's his show, and his convincing turn truly a spectacle to behold. It's easily among the best performances I've seen this year. ... William Keane is a fascinating character, and Damian Lewis gives an equally fascinating performance.
-- Aaron West (article author), efilmcritic.com, June 15, 2005
Damian Lewis is extraordinary as schizophrenic William Keane, a 30-something man searching for his daughter who disappeared in a New York bus station. ... Lewis' performance is a perfect marriage of external bombast and internal struggle.
-- Warren Curry (article author), einsiders.com, June 20, 2005
The entire film [Keane] hinges on Lewis, and he delivers a performance that deserves serious Oscar consideration.
-- Dan Krovich (article author), boxofficeprophets.com, June 22, 2005
Damian Lewis' performance as the titular character [in Keane] is exceptional.
-- [article author, name unrecorded], Nantucket Film Festival (filmguide.nantucketfilmfestival.org), June 2005
[In Keane,] Damian Lewis, an accomplished British actor known to American viewers for his role in the Spielberg-Hanks HBO production, "Band of Brothers," excels as William Keane, an hysterical man, first seen in New York City's port Authority, searching for his six-year-old daughter, who had mysteriously disappeared six month before.
-- Emanuel Levy (article author), emanuellevy.com, June 2005
BW: Keane has a very small cast and the success of a film such as this is clearly going to hinge on the performance of the actor playing the central role of William Keane. Damian Lewis is remarkable. How did you settle on him?
LK: All the movies I make, Clean, Shaven, Claire Dolan, and Keane have been built around a central performance, and they all live or die by that performance. This one, perhaps more than any of the others, because Damian is in every shot. I think casting is often very backwards-looking, where people involved in the casting process want to see that the actor they are considering has played roles that are similar to the role being cast. I take a different approach. I try to find actors who are clearly talented and try to imagine whether they could play the role, regardless if they have performed a similar role or not. It's very intuitive for me. I watched Damian in "Band of Brothers" and he's clearly a remarkable actor in that, but there's nothing in his role as Major Winters that is similar to the role of William Keane. The two roles are worlds apart. But in "Band of Brothers" I could see how much control he had in his craft, how much presence he had. The rest was intuition. It was crucial for the actor playing Keane to convey the very real possibility that at some point in his past, Keane was a father and a good father. And what is remarkable to me is that Damian isn't a parent, and yet he was able to portray one so well, and he did that completely on his own. We didn't really have any discussions about what it is to be a parent, he just intuitively understood it. I sent him a script, talked to him, and then I flew over to London to meet with him for a couple of days, to make sure that we saw the character the same way and that we would be able to work together well, which is crucial for these types of performances because the collaboration is so involved and intense. And it also gave Damian the chance to get to know me and decide whether the project was right for him or not. Both Stephen [Soderbergh] and [producer] Andrew [Fierberg] were very much in favor. It was very much a mutual decision by all involved.
-- Brad Westcott (article author) and Lodge Kerrigan, Reverse Shot Magazine interview, probably sometime between Autumn 2004 and Spring 2005
Lewis's brilliantly nuanced performance of the schizophrenic Keane is the backbone of the entire film. ... The film creates a remarkable sense of empathy for this man who we see at times behave violently and irrationally and I don't think I've ever felt an audience will a character to do the right thing as I did with this film. You want him to pull himself together, to wrench himself from the absolute anguish that is evident in every subtle gesture made. It's an extraordinary performance in a gripping thriller.
-- Alex Murray (article author), Fairfax Digital, July 2005
[In Keane,] Lewis -- always onscreen -- gives an astonishing performance as William Keane.
-- Graham Fuller (article author), New York Daily News, August 21, 2005
Lodge Kerrigan's Keane follows William Keane (a brilliant Damian Lewis), a homeless schizophrenic New Yorker, as he attempts to find his kidnapped daughter.
-- Jason Whyte (article author), Vancouver International Film Festival site, August 25, 2005
The writer-director Lodge Kerrigan takes the audience on a nerve-jangling journey into the psychological life of a destitute father (a young, Redfordesque Damian Lewis) who is looking for his abducted daughter in "Keane." ... Mr. Lewis ... carries the movie with his tightly wound character study.
-- Sharon Waxman (article author), The New York Times, September 4, 2005
[In Keane,] Damian Lewis, vet of HBO's Band of Brothers, commits himself to the role's interior shitstorm with unrelenting energy, and it's a triumph of post-Method selflessness when you also consider the claustrophobic proximity of DP John Foster's camera, and the fact that the scenes play out in real time, in crowded midtown hubs.
-- Michael Atkinson (article author), Village Voice, September 6, 2005
Lewis, who also stars in An Unfinished Life, has squinty, chiseled features that recall the young Steve McQueen, but in Keane that face is on fire with torment -- with the mystery that's driving it.
-- Owen Gleiberman (article author), Entertainment Weekly, September 7, 2005
[In An Unfinished Life,] Josh Lucas, Camryn Manheim and Damian Lewis offer support, with Lewis particularly effective as the miserable ex-boyfriend who inevitably follows Jean back to her Rocky Mountain hometown.
-- John Boonstra (article author), Valley Advocate, September 8, 2005
With the relentless focus on Keane, the film is held together by the raw intensity of Damian Lewis' portrait of the emotional torment of a man whose life is falling apart. (Lewis was equally convincing as an obsessive aristocrat in Masterpiece Theatre's multi-decade "Forsyte Saga.") ... Lewis and Kerrigan skillfully bring an ambiguity to Keane and a welcome complexity to the film.
-- Ed Scheid (article author), Boxoffice.com, September 8, 2005
I saw Damian in "Band of Brothers." There's nothing specific in that that is similar to the role of Keane, but I saw what a talented actor he was and it was really intuitive. I just thought he would do a really good job. We sent him the script and I went to London to spend a few days with him. In all the films I've made, they live or die on the central performance, this one perhaps more than any other, simply because Damian is in every shot of the movie.
-- Lodge Kerrigan (director of Keane), IFCTV.com, September 8, 2005
[In Keane, director Lodge Kerrigan] pushed his lead actor into actual traffic and kept a hand-held camera focused continually on the amazing, seemingly selfless Damian Lewis.
-- Stuart Klawans (article author), The Nation, September 8, 2005
The previously noted Damian Lewis, who plays the heel in An Unfinished Life-proving again there's no such thing as a small role of no significance when a big actor gives it his own special stamp-is again on view in the odd, disturbing psychological drama, Keane. This intense portrait of a tightly coiled man in crisis coming rapidly unraveled on every level is a bigger showcase for Mr. Lewis' talent and range, which is vast. A British actor familiar to audiences at the Royal Shakespeare Company who can play Americans with no trace of an accent, Mr. Lewis has what looks like a bright future in American films. In Keane, he portrays the tormented inner psyche of a man whom we never really come to know, but whose desperation is utterly compelling. ... A few things are certain: Damian Lewis is on a roll, Lodge Kerrigan is a director worth watching, and Keane is a small wonder in a season of big but deadly, brainless blockbusters.
-- Rex Reed (article author), [source unknown], about September 8, 2005
Damian Lewis' turn as the title character [in Keane] is remarkably nuanced, offering surprises at every turn. ... Lewis' manner and body language change on the drop of a dime. The actor thoroughly integrates himself into his character. Initially, Keane's behavior is frightening; his eyes are as menacing as Charles Manson's. Without ever quite breaking down entirely, he always seems to be on the verge of doing so. However, he's in more danger of harming himself than anyone else, as the final third of "Keane" suggests. Even then, there are times when he alternates between a benign, paternal mood and fits of paranoia. ... Lewis' performance is nearly flawless.
-- Steve Erickson (article author), Gay City News, September 8, 2005
[Keane stars] British actor Damian Lewis in a riveting performance as the title character William Keane.
-- Anthony Kaufman (article author), Indiewire, September 8, 2005
Overall, it's the quality of acting in "An Unfinished Life" that makes this film a cinematic treat. Surrounded ... by superb performances from Redford, Freeman, Lucas, Damian Lewis (as the chain-smoking abusive boyfriend), and newcomer Becca Gardner, Lopez actually gives one of her best performances to date.
-- Rebecca Murray (article author), Movies.about.com, September 8, 2005
Lewis['s] performance [in Keane] is nothing short of spectacular.
-- Gary Dretzka (article author) Movie City News, September 8, 2005
[Keane] is a portrait of psychological instability, and as the film progresses, it asks us to consider whether its protagonist's extreme emotional trauma is a byproduct of his mental illness or vice versa -- indeed, whether William Keane actually has a daughter at all. Those contradictions are embodied by the 34-year-old British actor, Damian Lewis, who appears onscreen for every one of the film's 90-odd minutes and who commits himself to the role with terrifying intensity. His Keane is by turns clear-headed and delusional, paternal and childlike -- whether having a conversation with himself or going into a strange trance to the strains of "I Can't Help Myself" emanating from a barroom jukebox. For Lewis, the film is a breakthrough coming after an acclaimed supporting turn in the Band of Brothers miniseries and an impressive dual role in Lawrence Kasdan's Dreamcatcher (where his Jonesy/Mr. Grey is one of the occasional flashes of brilliance lighting up that otherwise daft Stephen King adaptation). In Keane, he is the engine that drives an utterly relentless film. And we cannot escape him, for Kerrigan's handheld camera is forever hovering no more than a few inches from Lewis' head, forcing us to see the streets of New York through the eyes of a man we would ordinarily do our best to avoid. It is one of the year's great pieces of movie acting, and the kind of performance other actors come to speak about in hushed, reverential tones.
-- Scott Foundas (article author), LA Weekly, September 9, 2005
[As] the nut-job boyfriend [in An Unfinished Life,] Damian Lewis [is] very good.
-- Mick LaSalle (article author), San Francisco Chronicle, September 9, 2005
Keane's Damian Lewis does schizophrenia -- and does it pretty damn well. ... As the troubled William Keane, Lewis propels the film from pathos to terror and back again while hunting down the young daughter he claims was kidnapped at Port Authority Bus Terminal. ... Keane is Lewis' film. He reels and steams and shudders and inhabits William Keane so entirely and fearlessly that his loneliness pervades even the teeming terminal of Port Authority. Part of the film's impossible greatness is that prior to viewing it, you would hesitate to believe a narrative's primary action could take place inside its main character's head -- rarely verbalized, shivering in the pallid glow of his eyes. His Keane searches for his daughter in everything and everyone, but avoids the ham-fisted trappings of obsession. After all, he acts out of deference to his condition. ... Lewis' value is such that his status as Kerrigan's benefactor or beneficiary is tough to ascertain; Lewis credits Kerrigan's script, while Kerrigan claims Lewis deserves an Oscar nod for "one of the hands-down great performances I've seen."
-- "stvanairsdale" (article author), Indiewire, September 9, 2005
(Keane) had its own life. You could see it, you could feel it. It was like it had the right energy. And I didn't necessarily create that. I must have added something to it, but I didn't create it. I just recognized it. All I did was try to guide it a little bit -- try to help it on its way, but it had its own force. And Damian was a huge part of that.
-- Lodge Kerrigan (director of Keane), Indiewire, September 9, 2005
Keane ... showcases (in the title role) the remarkable talent of one-time Royal Shakespeare Company actor Damian Lewis. ... Lewis gives an astonishing performance. He has to; he carries the first half of the movie virtually alone. Vulnerable, aching, but still alive and attuned to his senses, Lewis creates a multi-dimensional character on a single-minded mission. [The film] has honesty, heart, and some of the best acting you will likely see on screen this year.
-- Barbara and Scott Siegel (article authors), The Siegel Column (at Theatremania.com), September 9, 2005
[An Unfinished Life is] enriched by Redford's and Freeman's subtle, superlative performances. Supporting players Lucas, Manheim and Lewis (whom you'd never know was English) are equally strong, and newcomer Gardner holds her own with refreshing ease.
-- Maitland McDonagh (article author), TVGuide.com, early September 2005
Credit must be given to Kerrigan for taking on such a daring psychodrama and to Damian Lewis for his riveting performance as Keane.
-- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat (article authors), Spirituality & Health, early September 2005
Damian Lewis plays the tragic, mentally unstable protagonist [in Keane] with subtle brilliance, managing to elicit both sympathy and discomfort from a realistic -- yet never hammy -- performance.
-- Michael Joshua Rowin (article author), The L Magazine, early September 2005
[The] success of this remarkable film [Keane] rests on British-born Lewis' astonishing performance. His characterization is so bold, so raw and so far out on an emotional ledge that you can't help but fear he'll never find his way back.
-- Ken Fox (article author), TVGuide.com, early September 2005
[Keane director Lodge] Kerrigan lucked out with actor Damian Lewis. This is the kind of complex role that many actors would love to do and Lewis pulls it off without being over the top. Lewis is able to walk that delicate line between sane and insane, balancing them in a way that feels real. His scenes with Amy Ryan, and especially Abigail Breslin, are touching without feeling too sentimental.
-- Chad Goldich (article author), Upstage Magazine, early September, 2005
I look for actors who are really talented, who control their craft and then the rest is very intuitive for me. When I saw Damian in Band of Brothers, I saw how talented he was. He has tremendous control. But there's nothing in that role that has anything to do with Keane. But I felt very strongly that he could do a really good job and I watched the first 20 minutes of Dreamcatcher and that confirmed for me that he could play a parent. The whole idea to Keane is that he could have been a parent in the past. The question of whether his child ever existed is very open-ended.
-- Lodge Kerrigan (director of Keane), Suicidegirls.com, early September 2005
Damian Lewis fits his role as bad boyfriend [in An Unfinished Life], an effectively repugnant guy who walks a thin line between tenderness and brutality.
-- John Wirt (article author), The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA), early September 2005
[In Keane,] Damian Lewis (Band of Brothers) gives an Oscar-caliber performance as a man lost and coming apart at the seams on the streets of New York City. Ostensibly, he's lost his child. But it's never quite clear if he ever really had one to begin with or if this is just another delusion of a shattered mind. The camera follows him in shaky close-up, upping the claustrophobic tension to the point where seemingly simple grief and emotional instability give way to near madness. It's not fun, but it's as much an antidote to fake Hollywood nonsense as anything you'll see this year.
-- [article author unknown], E! Online, early September 2005
An intense, claustrophobic study of a man haunted by the kidnapping of his daughter, Keane is a grimly compelling showcase for the exceptional British actor Damian Lewis (Band of Brothers). Under Lodge Kerrigan's assured direction, Lewis gives a painfully raw performance in the title role of this ultra-realistic indie character study, which Kerrigan shoots primarily in excruciating close-up. Kerrigan's unblinking portrait of a man on the brink of madness may be extremely difficult to watch, but Keane is nonetheless remarkable for its frank and complex depiction of a terribly wounded soul seeking redemption. ... As Keane, Lewis is stunning. There's not a shred of artifice to his superbly naturalistic performance. Onscreen throughout the film's 93-minute running time, Lewis never overacts during Keane's manic episodes. Nor does he ever try to make his character more overtly sympathetic.
-- Tim Knight (article author), Reel.com, early September 2005
Playing crazy is such a familiar scenery-chomp for actors that any filmgoer can list its conventions: jabber to self or to invisible companions; slue eyes around to indicate paranoia; talk loudly in public places; and/or attack strangers. As the troubled title character in Lodge Kerrigan's psychological drama "Keane," ... Damian Lewis does all these things, and yet his performance never feels like a show. On the contrary, he makes his character's torment so intimately, sadly real that we experience every tremor as our own. ... In Mr. Lewis's nuanced depiction, mental illness isn't a steady state but a ceaseless struggle along a continuum, with consensual reality at one end and nightmare delusion at the other. ... There are times when we're frightened of Keane or find him repellent, but thanks to Mr. Lewis, we never lose sight of his suffering. His performance is quietly brilliant. It's also a remarkable act of compassion.
-- Karen Durbin (article author), The New York Times, September 11, 2005
[With Keane, Lodge Kerrigan] works with such lean force that we are plunged into the story's emotional center as if we had suddenly been cast into a whirlpool. His collaborator--the best term--is his leading actor, Damian Lewis, who is English but whose American accent is flawless. Lewis's sculpted face, unobtrusively sensitive, his inflections of speech that suggest Keane's complexity, are exactly the qualities that Kerrigan needed for this man whose companionship in hell we must accept. ... A special word of thanks to Abigail Breslin, the little girl, who is both reticent and close, and a further word of thanks to Kerrigan for bringing us Lewis. The actor is in every scene and almost every shot and is compelling throughout.
-- Stanley Kauffman (article author), The New Republic, September 11, 2005
[Keane features] a pinpoint accurate portrayal of psychosis from British actor Damian Lewis.
-- Edward Havens (article author), Filmjerk.com, September 13, 2005
With a broad range required -- from infatuation and social pleasantries to hatred, anger and rage -- Lewis is a commanding presence [in Brides]
-- Mark Lavercombe (article author), Hoopla.nu, September 13, 2005
Lewis is the perfect choice for Keane. The red-headed British actor has an All-American look, but as viewers of "Dreamcatcher" and the current "An Unfinished Life" have noticed, he also has the ability to appear frat-house friendly one moment and diabolical the next. In other words, he's scary as hell, and as either the hero or villain of a story about a child in danger, he makes your knuckles grow whiter as it progresses.
-- Jack Mathews (article author), New York Daily News, September 14, 2005
[In Keane,] Damian Lewis (Band of Brothers), [is] on-screen throughout and simply outstanding as the grieving, mentally fragile William.
-- Sandra Hebron (article author), London Film Festival (lff.org.uk), September 14, 2005
The boyfriend [in An Unfinished Life] is played by Damian Lewis, a character actor who's shown in nuanced performances in the HBO series "Band of Brothers" and the underrated "Dreamcatchers" that he's worthy of a leading film role.
-- Christopher Lloyd (article author), Indianapolis Star, September 16, 2005
In a wholly unexpected and ultimately gratifying experience from writer-director Lodge Kerrigan, "Keane" is emotionally involving right from the beginning through its final frame. Wandering around Manhattan's bustling Port Authority bus terminal is a trim young man with dark red hair, William Keane (Damian Lewis, in a demanding and illuminating portrayal), and he becomes increasingly agitated as he tries to retrace the last moments he spent with his 6-year-old daughter, who suddenly vanished.
-- Kevin Thomas (article author), Los Angeles Times, September 16, 2005
Lewis, who made an everyman a leading man in Band of Brothers, doesn't play Keane as an affectation or outright imitation of mental illness; he embodies the character from the inside out, and avoids the vain, archly dramatic portrayals that lesser actors attach to their purported 'serious' roles. We feel sympathy, fear and revulsion for Keane -- often at the same time -- and it's to Lewis' credit that the subtle build of Keane's minimalist plot adopts such weight and depth by the final, devastating scene.
-- Todd Gilchrist (article author), IGN Filmforce, September 16, 2005
Keane is built on a powerful performance by Damian Lewis, who played the abusive husband (sic) in An Unfinished Life, also in theatres right now. Here he generates enormous sympathy as he helplessly tries to do the right thing. Thumbs up.
-- Roger Ebert (article author), Ebert & Roeper, September 17, 2005
Kerrigan and star Lewis (in a breakout performance) keep William Keane together for almost twenty-four hours, turning the heat up slowly as first, Keane gets a message that Lynn can't make it home that night, then again as he starts to slip into paranoia at a public skating rink, held together by the calm reaction of his young charge. Kerrigan maintains that balance on the thin line between sanity and madness throughout his little miracle of a film, by never wavering from Keane's wavering perspective and Lewis's performance is wisely restrained, his Keane a quiet man easy to ignore, his period lapses anomalies we believe (actually more like hope) he can regain control over.
-- Laura Clifford (article author), Joecritic.com, September 18, 2005
Kerrigan's newest chronicle of life on the edge is the wondrous Keane. Featuring a brilliant central performance by rising talent Damian Lewis (Band of Brothers, An Unfinished Life) and screening to acclaim at Telluride, Toronto, New York and in Cannes Director's Fortnight, Keane, much like Clean, Shaven, investigates the world of a mentally unstable man tormented by the loss of his daughter.
-- Shari Roman (article author), Filmmaker, September 18, 2005
All the films I have made so far have a strong central character, so the lead really has to carry the film and Damian is without question, a great actor. ... I was lucky to have found him [for Keane]. Damian was so committed and prepared, as well as intelligent in his choices. The levels of frustration, love, anger that he was able to bring to the role are amazing.
-- Lodge Kerrigan (director of Keane), Filmmaker, September 18, 2005
[Keane's] writer-director Lodge Kerrigan (Claire Dolan) had made a heartbreaking film, and Lewis (HBO's Band of Brothers) couldn't be better.
-- Leah Rozen (article author), People, September 19, 2005
This short story [Keane] is given a superb rendering by the performance of Damian Lewis as William Keane.
-- Ed Koch (article author), The Villager, September 21, 2005
[In An Unfinished Life,] Damian Lewis, who has the unfortunate duty of filling Gary's shoes, is so good at playing evil that it's easy to forget that he's also great at playing good (watch "Band of Brothers" if you've forgotten).
-- Christopher Abel (article author), The Outpost, September 22, 2005
[In An Unfinished Life,] English actor Damian Lewis is creepily convincing as Jean's scummy ex, and he invigorates the few scenes he's in.
-- Beth McArthur (article author), The Georgia Straight, September 22, 2005
[Keane] has a stunning performance by Damian Lewis, perhaps best known for his appearance in the HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers." If there is justice in Hollywood, he will be on the short list of actors with a shot at an Oscar nomination. He's that good in a part that must have put him under almost as much stress as the character he portrays. ... The role would have been difficult enough without the camera being on top of the actor, but Lewis does an outstanding job. Among other things, he displays a masterly command of the American idiom, so that it's hard to believe that he's actually British.
-- Charles Britton (article author), Daily Breeze, September 24, 2005
The acting [in Keane] is outstanding. Never do you question Damian Lewis because he's so totally committed. There's a dangerous moment where Keane sings, and a lesser actor could have easily lost the audience there; Lewis, however, is totally in control.
-- [article author unknown], Litwack.org, September 26, 2005
Keane [is] portrayed with frightening intensity by Damian Lewis. ... For Lewis, this is a tour de force of movie acting.
-- Bill Gallo (article author), SF Weekly, September 28, 2005
[In Keane], Damian Lewis' raw, scraped performance may be unforgettable. The Englishman (here very American) is not warm and open-faced, but the pinched, obsessed, grizzled, fragile Bill is one of the more disturbingly human dead-zoners in American film.
-- David Elliott (article author), San Diego Union-Tribune, September 29, 2005
[Keane is] played by Damian Lewis, the fiery-haired Brit from HBO's "Band of Brothers," who uses "Keane" to mark a big step in his rapid ascent to Hollywood's A list -- if he's not there already. As Yonkers-born William Keane, Lewis delivers one of the year's best and most complex performances by finding the humanity inside a man who touches our deepest sympathies and our worst fears, often in the same scene.
-- Al Alexander (article author), The Patriot Ledger, September 30, 2005
Lewis, who also appeared in TV's "Band of Brothers," gives a great performance in "Keane". ... As Keane accosts bus agents and strangers -- asking, in his insistent, guilt-ridden voice, if they've seen or heard of his little girl -- we realize he's near the breaking point, that he's been conducting the same search for months without any results and that by now it's become a self-flagellating ritual -- all of which Lewis puts across with razor-sharp economy.
-- Michael Wilmington (article author), Chicago Tribune, September 30, 2005
[In Keane], Damian Lewis, who exudes an inner turmoil almost too difficult to watch, shines in the role of the title character.
-- Chelsea Bain (article author), Townonline.com, September 30, 2005
Lewis is British, and his work here is rigorous and smart, particularly with Breslin, who has an uncommonly natural presence. Lewis's character is probably schizophrenic, but Lewis makes Keane's struggle against the disorder moving.
-- Wesley Morris (article author), Boston Globe, September 30, 2005
Keane is played by Damian Lewis, a British actor recently seen in "An Unfinished Life" as the abusive boyfriend of Jennifer Lopez. Here he inhabits an edge of madness that Lodge Kerrigan understands with a fierce sympathy. There is no reason for us to believe that Keane (or his daughter) would be better off if he found her. The camera regards him mercilessly, and his performance involves us because he portrays not hopeless madness but his drive to escape his demons.
-- Roger Ebert (article author), Chicago Sun-Times, September 30, 2005
In "Keane," a taut and suspenseful low-budget drama, Damian 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. ... Lewis, an Englishman who got his start with the Royal Shakespeare Company -- and played Maj. Richard Winters in HBO's "Band of Brothers" -- has the range to carry the film. In fact, he's in every shot of it. He lets the audience feel compassion for Keane, and he does so without a hint of sentimentality. Easier said than done.
-- John McMurtrie (article author), San Francisco Chronicle, September 30, 2005
I've been a Damian Lewis fan since seeing him in HBO's "Band of Brothers" miniseries, and he's never been better or more unnerving than he is in Keane. ... As sympathetic a character as William is, we're also profoundly scared of every action he makes. ... Keane is as unsettling as it is humane, and it's tough to remember a time I could say that about any film.
-- Steve Prokopy (article author), Gapers Block, September 30, 2005
Damian Lewis, who was superb as Maj. Winters in "Band of Brothers," gives us poor William Keane's every fear and fury. He's a whirlwind of self-destructive energy bearding the baffled strangers in his world. The story is that his own daughter was abducted earlier. Or was she? We're never sure if we're watching a victim or a madman, so our empathy is weirdly suspended.
-- Stephen Hunter (article author), Washington Post, September 2005
The strength of the movie [An Unfinished Life] is its fabulous cast. Led by Redford and Freeman, An Unfinished Life delivers one solid performance after another. Lopez, Gardner, Lewis and Lucas are all equally up to the task. Nobody falters in this movie and that is one of the main reasons An Unfinished Life is such a satisfying movie.
-- Brendan Cullin (article author), Empire Movies, September 2005
[In Brides,] Lewis and Haralbidou deliver solid performances.
-- Jaimie Leonarder (article author), The Movie Show, September 2005
From the outside, William Keane is just one of the thousands of disturbed homeless who aimlessly wander New York City's Port Authority Bus Terminal, but British 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.
-- Ella Taylor (article author), LA Weekly, September 2005
Keane. Not to be missed. ... Excellent acting by Damian Lewis, extraordinary writing and directing by Lodge Kerrigan. A gem.
-- Stanley Kauffman (article author), The New Republic, October 5, 2005
[Keane is] a visceral, discomfiting and radical work with a simply remarkable performance from Lewis.
-- Fiona Morrow (article author), Terminal City, October 6, 2005
What is mesmerizing [in Keane] is the way Mr. Lewis suggests a range of emotions from fear to rage; each shot becomes a small complete scene. ... Though the red-haired actor is actually handsome in repose, if you met him while he was walking distractedly down some squalid city street, you would want to cross to the other side. At the same time, there are hints of an inner gentleness; though he sometimes forgets what he's looking for, his near-despair is also appealing. ... If Mr. Lewis deserves an Oscar nomination for his ability to suggest the range of urban anxieties, recognition is also due to John Foster's hand-held camera work. In any case, the ultimate effect of "Keane's" minimalist art is powerfully upsetting.
-- Joseph Cunneen (article author), National Catholic Reporter, October 7, 2005
The performances of Haralabidou and Lewis [in Brides] are excellent, with Niki especially being brought to true life. She is given such depth, with such nuance, that one feels one knows her completely. Haralabidou has done an extraordinary job. Lewis also excels, and it seems likely we will be seeing more of him in films to come. Formerly best known for his role in Steven Spielberg's "Band of Brothers" mini series, he has several film roles due for release in 2005/6. His handsome appearance, coupled with the obvious skill he displays in Brides should mean he is offered more roles of such substance.
-- Mark Lavercombe (article author) Hoopla.nu, October 10, 2005
Lewis' performance [in Keane] is a tour de force.
-- [article author unknown], Catholic Herald, October 13, 2005
Being under such a microscope cinematically [in Keane], Damian Lewis has a heavy load to carry, and he succeeds with a grungy, sympathetic and often heart wrenching performance. There is a stereotype of people who are mentally ill with paranoid delusions that they are always that way, wandering the streets shouting crazy things. But many schizophrenics have periods of complete lucidity, only to periodically slide into psychosis. ... Lewis deftly displays a painful moment like this when his William is playing at an arcade with young Kira. You see William's face slowly turn away as his mind drifts off, culminating in William shouting to imaginary others tormenting him. What's particularly poignant is that you can see William aware of what is starting to happen to him as he walks away from Kira in order to prevent her from being exposed to the state he's about to enter.
-- Ron Morales (article author), Fantastica Daily, early October 2005
[In Keane,] Lewis, a British actor, gives a performance of such sustained ferocity that you begin to fear for the actor's sanity. He pushes and pushes. Lewis' totally wired performance is something to behold. His Keane even seems to breathe angrily.
-- Robert Denerstein (article author), Rocky Mountain News, October 21, 2005
Keane is writer-director Lodge Kerrigan's powerful new drama -- with a stunning lead performance by Britain's Damian Lewis ("Band of Brothers").
-- [article author unknown], Denver Film Society, October 21, 2005
Lewis does an amazing job of portraying this life of William Keane, going from moments of clarity and somewhat "normal" behavior, to living in a fantasy land where he believes his daughter's abductor is again in the bus terminal watching his every move.
-- Kim Owens (article author), Kaffeinebuzz.com, October 21, 2005
[Keane] is a tough movie, but one that's worthwhile, largely due to writer-director Lodge Kerrigan's no-nonsense approach to the material and to Lewis' frightening, complicated performance.
-- Neil Harvey, The Roanoke Times, October 22, 2005
Damian didn't put a foot wrong with [his portrayal of Marcus in Chromophobia]. He absolutely understood the character, how to convey that restrained emotion, in a modern rather than slightly caricatured, period-costume way.
-- Martha Fiennes (director of Chromophobia), The Telegraph, October 22, 2005
Although there isn't anything remotely similar in the two characters [of William Keane in Keane and Major Winters in Band Of Brothers], I was just really, really impressed by the control he had of his craft [in Band Of Brothers]. I certainly wasn't looking for a star or someone who would "sell" the movie. I wanted someone who could portray that fine line between mental health and mental illness, who could sustain that theatrical intensity throughout without any special effects.
-- Lodge Kerrigan (director of Keane), The Telegraph, October 22, 2005
A few encouraging nominations also went to Lodge Kerrigan's Keane, another tiny masterpiece that did have a distributor in Magnolia Pictures but nevertheless struggled theatrically. The film collected nods for Best Feature as well as Breakthrough Actor, an appropriate consideration to say the least for Damian Lewis' tormented performance as the mentally ill title character searching for his missing daughter. I also tracked Kerrigan down to get his impressions: "I'm very happy for everyone who worked on Keane," he said. Well, really, though--who is not?
-- Stvanairsdale (article author), Indiewire, October 25, 2005
One of the things that makes this film [Keane] so terrific is Lewis' magnificent acting. In most of his scenes, he is alone trying to make sense of his life, which is often deep in paranoia. Plus, he has the sadness of his loss. Lewis should get every acting award with the possible exception of best actress.
-- John Douglas (article author), Grand Rapids Press, October 28, 2005
[In Pillars Of The Community,] Damian gave a brilliant and delicately shaded performance, starting from self-contented righteousness and spiraling down into despair and self-hatred and agonisingly blurry morality. Just heart-breaking, really. At one point late in the play, he has reached a near-automaton state ... where he is almost not even deciding things any more, just led on by the circumstances that have blossomed so far out of his control that he can't even see his way clear to tell if he is doing right or wrong or what. Just totally given over to the momentum created by his choices. And yet you can see the incredible pain caused by reaching that place of non-decision, of anti-flow, of utter moral confusion. DEVASTATING. ... I could see the tears welling in his eyes during nearly all of the second half. And his hands are incredibly expressive: a finger pressed against his mouth in worry or fear, hands gesturing almost of their own accord as if to call back some of the choices he made in the past.
-- "Duke" (article author), Livejournal.com, October 29, 2005
[Keane is] a tough film to watch, tense and worrying, not least because of Lewis's remarkable performance as a decent, caring man barely holding himself together.
-- Demetrios Matheou (article author), London Film Festival, October 30, 2005
Having seen [Damian Lewis] as a posh Brit in The Forsyte Saga, you would expect him to be too clean-cut for [the role in Keane], but he is remarkably convincing. If anything, his good looks only underline William Keane's inability to function as a well-adjusted citizen.
-- Steve Rose (article author), The Guardian, October 31, 2005
Damian Lewis (TV's Band of Brothers) gives a riveting performance as William Keane, a grief-stricken, increasingly disturbed man who haunts NYC's Port Authority Bus Terminal to find clues about his child's abduction -- and forms an unsettling bond with the daughter of a woman staying at the same New Jersey motel.
-- Kelly Borgeson (article author), Premiere, October 2005
When it came to casting the two main parts [in Pillars Of The Community], Damian Lewis seemed to me an ideal Bernick. He has an incredible amount of charm and charisma, you can see him as the person all the women in the community are going to be in love with, and the one all the men would like to be. He's got a sort of ease about him, which will enable him to stand out in this very stiff and proper community.
-- Marianne Elliott (director, Pillars Of The Community), Pillars Of The Community brochure, October 2005
[Damian and I] got on very well and we've been friends, so that was great. The relationship between Beatrice and Benedick [in Much Ado About Nothing] is incredibly important because the writing has that very quick, throwaway style. So you need to be with somebody who you know is going to pass the ball all the time; you kind of have to second-guess what they're going to do. It's the joy of the banter and I knew that Damian would be able to do that.
-- Sarah Parish (co-star in Much Ado About Nothing), BBC, October-November 2005
[In Pillars Of The Community, Damian Lewis] inhabits the various dilemmas of Karsten Bernick with a wonderful depth and detail, even -- especially -- during the final act, when Bernick himself does not altogether know what he's saying or doing.
-- Ian Shuttleworth (article author), Theatre Record, October-November 2005
[In Keane,] Lewis in particular (Dreamcatcher, An Unfinished Life) voraciously attacks this actor's dream role and gives an astonishing performance.
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson (article author), Combustible Celluloid, Autumn 2005
With an affecting performance from Damian Lewis [in Keane], we are unquestionably drawn into William's story. ... Lodge Kerrigan's Keane does not disappoint.
-- Erica Rosen (article author), Highangle.co.uk, Autumn 2005
We were told early on that Damian Lewis -- one of the finest and most versatile actors of his generation -- was committed to a film, so we counted him out of our thinking. But when that film got delayed his agent was instantly on the phone to ask whether we'd found our Benedick [for Much Ado About Nothing], and would we consider him for the part. Not the toughest decision I've ever made.
-- Diederick Santer (producer, Much Ado About Nothing), BBC, October-November 2005
In order for the film [Keane] to work, it needed a monumental leading performance, which it gets, with bells on, from Damian Lewis. He is simply brilliant, comfortably better here than he has ever been, reminiscent, in terms of the power of the energy that he creates, of Paddy Considine at his best. There's a similar sense of danger to Lewis's performance, which makes scenes after he befriends a young mother and her daughter (the same age as Sophie, William's daughter) unbearably tense. The direction is also immensely impressive, with Kerrigan's camera work busy and, like his central character, always on the move. The film is visually as dark as its beating heart, making it an uncomfortable and, occasionally, unbearable film to watch. Films with this amount of originality and brilliance come along all too rarely, though, making Keane a must see.
-- Alex Crawford (article author), Crawford On Film, November 1, 2005
[In Pillars Of The Community,] Damian Lewis captures perfectly Bernick's blend of bravado and cowardice: even the way he checks behind every door before confronting Johan reveals his essential furtiveness.
-- Michael Billington (article author), The Guardian, November 2, 2005
[In Keane,] Damian Lewis ... transmits guilt and grief (and delusion?) with exhausting power. It's a great feat of movie acting.
-- Bill Gallo (article author), River Front Times, November 2, 2005
Ibsen's Pillars of the Community hasn't been professionally done in London since 1977, when the RSC staged it at the Aldwych (which was their West End home) in a production that won Ian McKellen an Olivier (then a SOLT) Award as Best Actor. Now the play's long overdue return, in a staging that marks the centenary of Ibsen's death and precedes an Ibsen Festival planned for next year, heralds a major opportunity for another fine actor to return to the stage (after a too-long absence in films and television) to mark out his territory as a galvanising leading man, and may yet mark his card for an Olivier, too. That actor is Damian Lewis, and the role is Karsten Bernick, a hugely successful entrepreneur in a Norwegian seaport in the late 1870s who has built an empire out of his interests in shipping and the railways for the apparent good of the community, but in fact motivated mainly by self-interest.
-- Mark Shenton (article author), What's On Stage, November 2, 2005
At the heart of the play [Much Ado About Nothing], though, is the electricity between Parish and Lewis, two of our very finest actors, who work well off each other here.
-- Kieron Corless (article author), Time Out London, November 2, 2005
Damian Lewis, as Bernick [in Pillars Of The Community], leads a fine and hard-working cast. His carefully-balanced performance perfectly describes a man desperate to cling onto power, but tortured by his deceit. And his intonation has that kind of furtive quality about it that begs the question 'would you trust this man?'
-- Peter Brown (article author), Official London Theatre Guide, November 2, 2005
Although Karsten [in Pillars Of The Community] gradually emerges, not entirely unexpectedly, as the villain of the piece, Ibsen makes him thrillingly three-dimensional. Played with marvelous initial assurance by Damian Lewis, this man is shown to be properly torn. He -- and almost everyone else in the play -- wrestles with understandably mixed motives and mitigating circumstances that make the arguments properly dramatic.
-- David Benedict (article author), Bloomberg.com, November 3, 2005
Damian Lewis's [performance as Bernick in Pillars Of The Community is] excellently intense and cagey.
-- Paul Taylor (article author), The Independent, November 3, 2005
[In Pillars Of The Community,] Lewis's Bernick consistently fascinates. Here's no cynical tycoon, no brutish Maxwell, but a sensitive, articulate man who desperately tries to believe that his works are important enough to the community for lies, compromises, even the odd death to be justified. He's a man with a conscience, but also one who has retrained it beyond what it can bear. This makes for a fine performance and lends credence to the much-criticised ending, in which the Bernick conscience takes a positive turn. You don't leave Elliott's revival feeling you've seen a bad man whitewashed. Thanks to Lewis, Lesley Manville and an able cast, you've seen a stimulating if wordy play about moral collapse and regeneration.
-- Benedict Nightingale (article author), The Times, November 3, 2005
Damian Lewis, who plays Keane, appeared in the miniseries Band of Brothers and the ... Stephen King thriller Dreamcatcher, but neither promised the depth or intensity of his performance here. ... Like Keane's mental state, ... his expressions are shifting sand; the character's sickening slips from parental tenderness to delusion have a tragic helplessness.
-- Jim Ridley (article author), Nashville Scene, November 3, 2005
[In Pillars Of The Community,] even the minor characters in a cast of 19 are played with exceptional sharpness and precision, though the show is dominated by a tremendous performance from that fast-rising, carrot-topped actor, Damian Lewis. He brings a mesmerising natural authority to the stage, and memorably nails Bernick's smugly patronising self-assurance, especially in his dealings with his cowed wife (Geraldine Alexander). But Lewis also thrillingly charts the character's craven panic and terrifying ruthlessness as his life starts collapsing around him, and achieves a fascinating ambiguity at the end.
-- Charles Spencer (article author), The Telegraph, November 3, 2005
'Keane' stars Damian Lewis as William Keane, a man in his early 30s who exists in New York on the edge of poverty and madness following the kidnap of his daughter several months earlier. Kerrigan offers a claustrophobic portrait of near-madness, while Lewis gives a terrific performance in the title role.
-- Dave Calhoun (article author), Time Out London, November 4, 2005
Damian Lewis's Karsten [in Pillars Of The Community] is riveting in a lightweight yet deliberately stagy style.
-- Alastair Macaulay (article author), Financial Times, November 4, 2005
Some cool things playing in town this weekend: Keane. For Your Consideration: Damian Lewis as Best Actor.
-- Jim Ridley (article author), Nashville Scene, November 4, 2005
According to the National Theatre, it's presenting "a vital new version of Ibsen's Pillars of the Community, a thriller set amid a society struggling against the rush of capitalism, the lure of America and the passionate beginnings of the fight for female emancipation." For once, critics are in total agreement with the National's press release, hailing the amazing topicality of Ibsen's play, celebrating his ability to write a gripping mystery, congratulating Director Marianne Elliott for navigating the tricky structure through the icebergs which frequently sink lesser productions, and praising Damian Lewis's masterful performance in the central role.
-- [article author unknown], Goodshow.com, November 4, 2005
[In Keane,] Lewis (Band of Brothers) delivers a sensational performance in a movie that is thoroughly dependent on his work. Actually, the film is more of a three-way affair among Lewis, Kerrigan, and Foster. They sink in their hooks and don't let go of the viewer until the very last minute. Kerrigan has found a way to preserve the insularity of his protagonist's point of view while keeping the needs of the audience in mind.
-- Marjorie Baumgarten (article author), Austin Chronicle, November 4, 2005
Parish's deadpan Beatrice and Lewis's smarmy, hairsprayed Benedick exude all the chemistry that love and comedy could wish for.
-- [article author unknown], Television & Radio Magazine, November 5, 2005
Damian Lewis is terrific as the dodgy hero in [Pillars Of The Community,] Ibsen's startlingly topical play about power and ethics. ... [Director Marianne Elliott] underlines the ambiguity of an ending in which apologies are made but wrongs aren't entirely righted and in which the sincerity of the hero's repentance is seriously in doubt. It is here that Damian Lewis adds a last sharp touch to a terrific performance.
-- Susannah Clapp (article author), The Observer, November 6, 2005
[In Pillars Of The Community,] Lewis gives his voice a cold, sneering edge, a voice that, if heard in a lift today, would be discussing flow charts and sales figures; yet he shows the strain of living a lie, his smooth demeanour creaking and leaking like on of his ships. It's a horribly plausible performance, enough to induce a tension headache.
-- Victoria Segal (article author), The Times, November 6, 2005
[In Keane,] Damian does a flawless American accent and a powerful and riveting performance. Keane is a well written, gripping tense drama with a terrific central performance by Damian Lewis.
-- [article author unknown], ITV-This Morning, November 7, 2005
Keane, filmed by Kerrigan in tighter and tighter closeup, befriends the little girl, and her mother, and the viewer becomes more and more nervous and caught up in the maelstrom that is mainly in Keane's head. Fine acting by Lewis, a tense, exciting movie that stays in the mind long after the lights have come up. "Keane," a taut, very good movie.
-- Joe Pollack (article author), KWMU, November 8, 2005
[In Keane,] Damian Lewis, one of HBO's "Band of Brothers," takes full advantage of his character's caustic ambiguity. It's a difficult role that could have easily spiraled two ways: into an insensitive mockery of mental illness or a shallow endorsement of Keane's actions. Instead, Lewis follows Kerrigan's lead, creating a character as disturbingly memorable as the movie.
-- John Hayes (article author), Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, November 10, 2005
Setting [Much Ado About Nothing] in a local TV newsroom was a masterstroke, as was the casting of Damian Lewis who excelled as the smarmy Benedick.
-- Paul English (article author), Daily Record, November 10, 2005
The central enigma in the play [Pillars Of The Community] is Karsten Bernick, a morally and financially corrupt shipbuilder and local entrepreneur, played, superbly, by Damian Lewis.
-- David Duff (article author), Duff And Nonsense, November 24, 2005
The most jarring accent redux I've ever encountered was meeting Damian Lewis (more well known as "Major Winters" from Band of Brothers). I had absolutely thought he was American. But low and behold he was another Brit sweeping in and nailing an American accent -- that didn't sound like John Wayne, or a drunken New Yorker. Anyway, some can do it. Some can't. But when they do, man it throws you.
-- "Rock" (article author), JohnAugust.com, December 3, 2005
This tense psychological thriller, about a man reeling from the abduction of his daughter, [Keane] features a gut-wrenching portrait by British actor Damian Lewis.
-- [article author unknown], Variety, December 4, 2005
This movie [Keane] is not just a stunt, but a true emotional journey. It's also proof of the abilities of Damian Lewis, who made a strong impression in the cable miniseries "Band of Brothers" but hasn't found his niche. He's not at all interested in needing the audience to like him, and he seamlessly navigates Keane's violent shifts in behavior. He'll probably be overlooked in the awards tourney, but this is strong stuff. Damian Lewis gives a strong performance in "Keane."
-- Robert Horton (article author), Daily Herald (Everett, WA), December 16, 2005
While I'm talking about movie awards, let me just express my extreme displeasure that no one (not even the Independent Spirit Awards) recognized Damian Lewis in Keane. That's just wrong. You won't see a better performance this year, and, yes, I've seen Philip Seymour Hoffman as Capote and Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain. ... What is the point of even having the Independent Spirit Awards if a performance like that in a film like that goes unrecognized. ... Aim that camera at Damian Lewis's face and let him blow your mind with his talent.
-- "DVC" [article author], Unreal City (unreal-city.blogspot.com), December 17, 2005
In one of the great performances of the year, Damian Lewis plays William Keane, a schizophrenic who wanders subterranean Manhattan in search of a daughter he may or may not have lost at Port Authority Bus Terminal.
-- Elbert Ventura (article author), The New Republic, December 21, 2005
I saw lots of fine acting last year -- in fact, acting has become so consistent I rarely see a bad performance unless Tara Reid is involved -- but the only other acting as penetrating and intimate as Crowe's was a performance I got to see and, sadly, virtually nobody else in the Twin Cities did. "Keane" was shown as part of Landmark Cinema's weekend subscription series, and this drama about a father, searching for a missing daughter (Was she kidnapped? Killed? Did she ever even exist?) features a gut punch of a performance from Damian Lewis. Look for it on video some time next year, and look for Lewis to get a lot of great parts in the years to come.
-- Chris Hewitt (article author), Pioneer Press, December 28, 2005
Great Performances [in films in 2005]: ... Damian Lewis' dad frantically searching for his lost daughter (or raving lunatic) in Keane ...
-- Kristian Lin (article author), Fort Worth Weekly, December 28, 2005
[In Keane,] British actor Damian Lewis electrifies Lodge Kerrigan's intense and intimate view of a schizophrenic mind, which makes memorable, effective use of handheld camera and tight close-ups.
-- Melissa Starker (article author), Columbus Alive, December 28, 2005
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