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Swaying from side to side at the piano, his back arched almost to the point of snapping, his head reaching for unseen lights, Jamie Foxx, as Ray Charles in "Ray," seems pulled upward to the heavens and downward to the keys at the same time. Watching this vibrantly intelligent and tough-minded bio-pic, which was written by James L. White and Taylor Hackford and directed by Hackford, we can't always make out how much of Charles's full-body attack at the piano is spasmodic and involuntary and how much is a consciously chosen style. But that's all right--we don't need to know. This movie tells us a lot about Ray Charles, who ...