For 2,074 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Lou Lumenick's Scores

  • Movies
Average review score: 55
Highest review score:
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Critic Score 0
Score distribution:
2,074 movie reviews
    • Metascore: 72
    • Lou Lumenick 100
    Delightfully unpredictable, hilarious comedy with wonderful performances that tug at your heart in ways that utterly transcend gender labels.
    • Metascore: 59
    • Lou Lumenick 100
    This is one perfectly terrifying movie, an instant classic.
    • Metascore: 74
    • Lou Lumenick 100
    Comes as close to perfect as any movie I've seen lately.
    • Metascore: 73
    • Lou Lumenick 100
    A really classic adventure yarn with one of Hollywood's great actors hitting one out of the ballpark. If you're seeing only one movie this season, this is the obvious choice.
    • Metascore: 58
    • Lou Lumenick 100
    Less a conventional biography than a performance film - one that stuns and delights.
    • Metascore: 75
    • Lou Lumenick 100
    You'll laugh, you'll cry -- the year's best movie.
    • Metascore: 69
    • Lou Lumenick 100
    Glossy, big-budget thriller that qualifies as the season's biggest and most rewarding surprise.
    • Metascore: 95
    • Lou Lumenick 100
    Bursting with energy and originality even after 36 years, A Hard Day's Night is easily the best show in town.
    • Metascore: 84
    • Lou Lumenick 100
    An absorbing, deeply affecting, well-acted --and remarkably evenhanded -- antiwar statement. It's also incredibly suspenseful and very blackly funny.
    • Metascore: 94
    • Lou Lumenick 100
    An all-time classic that seems even better after two decades.
    • Metascore: 90
    • Lou Lumenick 100
    An unqualified triumph, the year's best movie so far.
    • Metascore: 50
    • Lou Lumenick 100
    Lee's incendiary and brilliant new film.
    • Metascore: 87
    • Lou Lumenick 100
    The year's best foreign-language movie an absolute must-see.
    • Metascore: 80
    • Lou Lumenick 100
    A heart-pounding experience that makes you think and contains a gallery of characters that will haunt your nightmares for years to come.
    • Metascore: 77
    • Lou Lumenick 100
    Hands-down the best movie of the year.
    • Metascore: 92
    • Lou Lumenick 100
    So consistently involving because the excellent cast delivers their lines with the kind of utter conviction not seen in this kind of movie since the first "Star Wars."
    • Metascore: 78
    • Lou Lumenick 100
    A rare case of an American remake that actually improves on a European movie.
    • Metascore: 84
    • Lou Lumenick 100
    An unqualified triumph.
    • Metascore: 90
    • Lou Lumenick 100
    Being John Malkovich, which contains not a frame of extraneous footage, is more than a must-see movie: It's a must-see-more-than-once event.
    • Metascore: 94
    • Lou Lumenick 100
    A Japanese cross between "Alice in Wonderland" and "The Wizard of Oz" -- is such a landmark in animation that labeling it a masterpiece almost seems inadequate.
    • Metascore: 84
    • Lou Lumenick 100
    Perhaps the year's most daring and fully realized movie, is a pitch-perfect re-creation of '50s melodramas, showcasing a four-hankie performance by a peroxided Julianne Moore.
    • Metascore: 71
    • Lou Lumenick 100
    Short and sweet, small and smart, Tadpole is the oasis in the desert of dopey summer blockbusters - an uproarious, sophisticated coming-of-age comedy so flawlessly written, acted and directed it seems practically miraculous.
    • Metascore: 89
    • Lou Lumenick 100
    Summer hasn't even started, but you won't likely find a better catch this season than Finding Nemo, a dazzling, computer-animated fish tale with a funny, touching script and wonderful voice performances that make it an unqualified treat for all ages.
    • Metascore: 72
    • Lou Lumenick 100
    A thrilling, beautifully crafted, fact-based horse story that's not merely the summer's finest movie, but may well be the one to catch come Academy Awards time.
    • Metascore: 89
    • Lou Lumenick 100
    It's impossible to conceive of this ruefully funny entertainment without Bill Murray, who is nothing less than brilliant.
    • Metascore: 91
    • Lou Lumenick 100
    Chomet's wacky tale is so crammed full of eye-popping images, it's impossible to forget afterward.
    • Metascore: 94
    • Lou Lumenick 100
    A majestic conclusion to a nine-plus-hours epic that stirs the heart, mind and soul as few films ever have.
    • Metascore: 89
    • Lou Lumenick 100
    Audacious, thought-provoking and ruefully funny.
    • Metascore: 75
    • Lou Lumenick 100
    A gorgeous, poetic and stirring epic.
    • Metascore: 87
    • Lou Lumenick 100
    Caouette has used art, wit and a huge heart to forge his experiences into an unqualified masterpiece.