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Beyond the Sea (2004)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   C+ Source Brief Review Grade* Atlanta Journal-Constitution Eleanor Ringel Gillespie "It spins itself into some spangled netherworld where Spacey's ego and his eagerness to immortalize '60s crooner Bobby Darin form a sort of mutual admiration society." more... C+ Boston Globe Wesley Morris "Where Jamie Foxx disappears inside his Ray Charles, Spacey never lets you forget you're watching him." more... C+ Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert "Bobby Darin's life provides a less-than-perfect template for a biopic..." more... B   Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington "There are a lot of things to admire..." more... B   E! Online "While Beyond doesn't go much beyond standard biopic status, Spacey's singing stays with you long after the credits have rolled." more... B- filmcritic.com Blake French "...simply a marginally successful experiment for Spacey to test his own abilities as an actor, while never providing a distinction between this and every other musical biopic." more... B   New York Post Lou Lumenick "...seems to be telling us a lot more about its star and director, Kevin Spacey, than its ostensible subject, Bobby Darin..." more... C   New York Times Stephen Holden "The movie's a mess..." more... D   ReelViews James Berardinelli "Despite the choppy narrative and inappropriate casting of Spacey, Beyond the Sea managed to keep me entertained..." more... C+ Rolling Stone Peter Travers "...Spacey is a marvel." more... B   San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle "...one of the most embarrassing spectacles of 2004." more... D   Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold "...it fails to persuade us that its subject is significant enough to be worth a movie." more... C+ USA Today Mike Clark "...Spacey's brazen casting isn't as beyond the pale as it ought to be. In fact, it's hard to imagine this strange and only occasionally successful movie without him." more... B- * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)