Lou Lumenick, New York Post
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For 2,194 reviews, this critic has graded:
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52% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4 points lower than other critics.
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Lou Lumenick's Scores
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Positive: 1,071 out of 2194
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Mixed: 506 out of 2194
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Negative: 617 out of 2194
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Lou Lumenick 25
Without any believable characters or situations, Reindeer Games is about as appealing as leftover Christmas fruitcake. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
It's basically the longest (a butt-numbing 21/2 hours), the most expensive (a reportedly obscene $150 million), most vulgar and by far the stupidest episode of "Miami Vice" ever. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
An alarmingly unfunny French comedy where the two main characters are constantly yakking on a cell phone at an airport. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
Duplex, a shoddily constructed and alarmingly unfunny dark comedy that squanders the talents of Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore, is one real-estate deal you should walk away from. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
Significantly more gruesome and noisy than its predecessor, and boasting more nasty-looking fluids than all the works of David Fincher combined, this version leaves few corpses unturned in its unstinting campaign to please gorehounds. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
Soporific, shamelessly derivative and barely coherent by American standards. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
It's hard to say what's more offensive about the out-of- tune Radio - Cuba Gooding Jr. trying to ingratiate himself by mugging up a storm as a mentally challenged man, or the mawkish narrative surrounding him like so much syrup. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
This mostly laugh-and scare-free turkey offers an utterly bored -- and boring -- Eddie Murphy taking a back seat to special effects, elaborate sets and a wispy story slapped together by David Berenbaum (the overrated "Elf"). -
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Lou Lumenick 25
The script, attributed to Mark Schwahn, Marc Hyman and Jon Zack, is as confused as it is confusing, and the aimless direction by Brian Robbins doesn't help. It was apparently edited with a roulette wheel. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
A boring and violent French crime thriller, is the sort of routine potboiler that generally goes straight to video in this country, if it's seen at all. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
It's hard to imagine hardened New Yorkers actually paying to see this totally uncritical, gee-whiz celebration of stock car racing, its fans and its history, breathlessly narrated by Kiefer Sutherland and perfunctorily directed by Simon Wincer. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
A leaden retelling of the legend of Australia's Jesse James that has understandably been sitting on the shelf for a couple of years. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
May not set back Danish-American relations, but it's amusing to imagine how this schlock would have turned out under Denmark's most famous director, the American-hating Lars von Trier. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
This bomb, which premiered at last year's Sundance Film Festival, belongs in the same remainder bin as Spacey's "Pay It Forward," "K-Pax" and "The Life of David Gale." -
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Lou Lumenick 25
There's no excuse for a thriller as lame, leaden and unthrilling as Godsend, which manages to take a potentially interesting subject - human cloning - and use it to put audiences to sleep. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
Wastes some veteran performers in a slight, silly musical fantasy with two left feet. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
Catwoman is pretty well summed up by Hedare: “This is a disaster. It’s a total bloody disaster.” -
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Lou Lumenick 25
It’s often hard to figure out who’s winning, much less care about it. One thing is certain: Nobody is going to be demanding a rematch. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
The acting is serviceable at best, the direction unfocused - and the special effects and makeup cheesy-looking. This is surely the most dreary-looking film ever shot by the great Vittorio Storaro ("Apocalypse Now"). -
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Lou Lumenick 25
When Will I Be Loved would rate no stars except for Campbell's brave, totally committed performance -- which deserves a far better movie than this. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
Eric Schaeffer's rip-off -- er, homage -- to "Magnolia," is a marginally better movie than his previous self-absorbed atrocities like "My Life's in Turnaround" and "Wirey Spindell." -
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Lou Lumenick 25
A shipwreck. They say a dead fish stinks from the head first - but the animated shipwreck Shark Tale arrives reeking all over. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
A real head-scratcher that somehow won the grand jury prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
The latest, and let's hope the last, in the raft of uninspired, quickie Bush-bashing documentaries churned out by producer Robert Greenwald -
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Lou Lumenick 25
The low point of the new Shall We Dance comes when Miss Paulina finally confesses why she's so sad. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
So over the top that it often plays like a parody. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
This masturbatory exercise is the least revealing "documentary" since Jerry Seinfeld's "Comedian." -
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Lou Lumenick 25
It's not a bad premise for a movie, but writer-director Omar Naim, a 26-year-old Lebanese native making his feature debut, proves equally inept at handling plotting, actors and pacing. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
There's 80 minutes of mawkish, overacted melodrama - laced with gratuitous violence and profanity - before we get to anything more than the briefest snippet of a dance number. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
The best thing about Some Body -- an amateurish, quasi-improvised acting exercise shot on ugly digital video -- is that it's all over in 80 minutes. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
The talented cast doesn't stand much of a chance in this rambling, pointless narrative. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
Poor Keaton, a capable actor who was absent from the screen for several years, is hamstrung by the material even more than in last year's dismal "First Daughter." -
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Lou Lumenick 25
The MPAA's rating explanation for this PG-13-rated snoozer misleadingly claims it contains "intense sequences of terror/violence"; it would be more accurate to state that Boogeyman contains "virtually every horror-movie cliché of the past 30 years." -
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Lou Lumenick 25
Plays like an unwieldy mishmash of "Big Momma's House," "An Unmarried Woman" and "The Burning Bed," with lots of gospel music thrown in. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
If the once red-hot Vin Diesel's overhyped career wasn't finished off by last summer's mega flop "The Chronicles of Riddick," the alleged family comedy The Pacifier ought to do the trick. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
A mockumentary that veers unsteadily between satire and an infomercial for Dash's Roc-A-Fella records. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
A bland, dull and only occasionally funny waste of time that will very soon be gathering dust in the remainder bins. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
Most of this movie is beyond lame. It almost makes "A Cinderella Story" -- the ever-mugging Duff's surprise hit of last summer -- look like a real movie by comparison. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
A perfect storm of wooden acting, hackneyed direction, inane scripting and laughably cartoonish special effects produces a shapeless mess more wearyingly stupid than arch-villian Dr. Doom is evil. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
The bottom line of Last Days seems to be, fame's a bitch. Yes, Gus - now start making movies again that tell stories, please. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
A collection of product plugs masquerading as a movie en route to home video. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
A cheesy, often unintentionally funny, direct-to-video-caliber knockoff of "Aliens" that couldn't be more shallow. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
The only hint of professionalism comes from Cheech Marin as Cannon's boss, who at times seems to be acting in a different movie. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
A tediously self-absorbed variation on "The Big Chill" and "The Return of the Secaucus 7." -
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Lou Lumenick 25
Liev Schreiber's film version of "Everything Is Illuminated" achieves the impossible — it's even more annoying than Jonathan Safran Foer's gratingly precocious novel. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
This poorly acted, directed and written (but slick-looking) vanity project was produced by Andrew Lauren (Ralph's son also ineptly plays G's major-domo) and shot at least four years ago. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
A painfully sincere indie drama that isn't content to evoke only the misery of 9/11 -- it has to reference TWA Flight 800 for extra grief. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
Those endless end credits reveal that McKittrick previously worked at Steak & Ale, Roadhouse Grill and Friday's. He may well need to return to his line of work after a debut as dismal as this one. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
Any way you slice it, A Tale of Two Pizzas is so ineptly written and directed that it's pretty soggy entertainment. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
Wal-Mart's home office in Bentonville, Ark., can rest easy: Greenwald, as usual, is hysterically preaching to the choir. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
THE mesmerizingly awful The Kid & I is a historic first: a comedy about the making of a vanity production that is ITSELF a vanity production. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
Painfully sincere. But it wrings almost no laughs or tears from this seemingly idiot-proof premise. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
Another ridiculous anti-American screed by the minimalist Danish director Lars von Trier, who has never set foot in this country. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
Ineptly directed by Simon West, the scare-free When a Stranger Calls is the worst of the seminal horror movies from the late '70s and early '80s that have been getting the remake treatment lately. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
Kirschner's excruciatingly earnest coming-of-age comedy, is about as fresh as year-old matzoh and plays like the unholy spawn of "Brighton Beach Memoirs" and "Fiddler on the Roof." -
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Lou Lumenick 25
With Roth at the helm of a script attributed to Price, there is minimal suspense, audience involvement or coherent social commentary. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
William H. Macy lends a little class as a snail, but Smith nails it in the closing-credit outtakes: "Don't expect Robin Williams-caliber work." -
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Lou Lumenick 25
Watchable in a train-wreck kind of way, but you'll probably want to take a shower afterwards. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
Most of the interviews are as brief as they are obvious, and it doesn't help that none of those interviewees, including clergymen who served as technical advisers, are identified. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
Scary Movie 4 concludes by satirizing Cruise's couch-jumping orgy on "Oprah." Funny, but nowhere near as hilarious as the real thing. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
A great-looking but stupefyingly incoherent supernatural thriller adapted from a popular video game that ransacks the entire catalog of horror film tropes for more than two mind-numbing hours. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
There are bachelor and bachelorette parties, as well as much misbehavior, in this glossy and unconvincing little flick, receiving a vanity booking on the way to video. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
Arguably as effective as Ambien at inducing sleep, but possible side effects include uncontrollable laughter. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
Sometimes there's a fine line between a labor of love and a vanity project, and The Lost City, Andy Garcia's heartfelt - but hackneyed and interminable - love letter to his native Cuba, repeatedly crosses it. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
Looks great for a no-budget indie, but not a single moment rings true in this sluggish vanity project, which is sorely in need of Viagra. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
Sexual and toilet humor plumb new depths in Keenen Ivory Wayans' Little Man, which will stink up theaters like several gross of dirty diapers. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
Despite this seemingly surefire premise and cast of veteran comedians - there's even a cameo by Liza Minnelli as a masturbation coach - The OH in Ohio just lies there, without a single laugh. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
I wouldn't have thought it was possible to make a prison picture as utterly boring as Jailbait. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
Pulse bears more than a slight resemblance to a 1994 American horror called "Ghost in the Machine." They didn't screen that stinker in advance for critics, either. -
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Lou Lumenick 25
A repugnant little indie black comedy, poorly acted in hideous-looking digital video, guaranteed to send audiences fleeing for the nearest shower. -
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