For 2,195 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 4 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:
2,195 movie reviews
    • Metascore: 37
    • Lou Lumenick 38
    Lethally dull and self-important remake.
    • Metascore: 42
    • Lou Lumenick 38
    This lame teenage James Bond will leave audiences neither shaken nor stirred.
    • Metascore: 48
    • Lou Lumenick 38
    One big hunk of cinematic moussaka with lots of appetizing shots of food.
    • Metascore: 57
    • Lou Lumenick 38
    As misconceived as it is corny and predictable.
    • Metascore: 59
    • Lou Lumenick 38
    Harris can be a brilliant actor, and there are flashes of that here. But he's done in by a script that lacks any subtlety.
    • Metascore: 49
    • Lou Lumenick 38
    For much of Flannel Pajamas I wondered if the couple's big problem was that Stuart was secretly gay. Nothing so interesting - he's just a narcissistic control freak and she's off-puttingly needy.
    • Metascore: 44
    • Lou Lumenick 38
    A low-key Field is the best thing about Two Weeks, which is set in a Wilmington, N.C., where everyone mysteriously sounds like he just got off a Los Angeles freeway.
    • Metascore: 42
    • Lou Lumenick 38
    The apolitical and well-meaning Home of the Brave is predictable and maudlin.
    • Metascore: 45
    • Lou Lumenick 38
    In the hands of the formerly promising director Joe Carnahan, this stylish, nihilistic, hugely derivative mash-up of Tarantino and Guy Ritchie (before wife Madonna ruined his career) is fun for roughly half an hour.
    • Metascore: 37
    • Lou Lumenick 38
    The cast includes Oscar winner Louise Fletcher (Nurse Ratched herself) and Henry Thomas of "E.T.," and the special effects look like they were executed on somebody's laptop.
    • Metascore: 29
    • Lou Lumenick 38
    When you awake, it may all seem like a bad dream - but why is your wallet missing $11? Scary.
    • Metascore: 42
    • Lou Lumenick 38
    Next, which makes "National Treasure" look like a model of narrative logic, is almost beyond criticism.
    • Metascore: 63
    • Lou Lumenick 38
    Zoo
    A bizarre quasi-documentary that more or less tries to rationalize bestiality as a harmless quirk.
    • Metascore: 48
    • Lou Lumenick 38
    Peter Krause, the fine actor from "Six Feet Under," gives a one-note performance that seriously undermines Civic Duty, a thriller mining minimal dramatic payoff from the potentially potent subject of post-9/11 paranoia.
    • Metascore: 53
    • Lou Lumenick 38
    The kind of movie that cries out for the fast-forward button.
    • Metascore: 56
    • Lou Lumenick 38
    Picks up steam when it finally arrives in Cannes just in time to wreak yet more havoc at the big film festival, but getting there is pretty tedious. A little of the wildly mugging Atkinson goes a long way.
    • Metascore: 68
    • Lou Lumenick 38
    A gorgeous snooze, somewhere between imitation Terrence Malick and a feature version of star Brad Pitt's notorious Vanity Fair layout with Angelina Jolie and their faux kids.
    • Metascore: 56
    • Lou Lumenick 38
    The opening montage raises expectations of a serious, politically incisive depiction of the region. What we actually get is an offensively pandering, Bruckheimer-esque riff on the real-life Khobar Towers bombing of 1996, a Saudi Hezbollah attack that killed 19 Americans.
    • Metascore: 61
    • Lou Lumenick 38
    Lust, Caution could have done with a lot more lust and a lot less caution.
    • Metascore: 38
    • Lou Lumenick 38
    This is the sort of movie that requires you not only to suspend disbelief, but to check your sanity at the ticket counter.
    • Metascore: 57
    • Lou Lumenick 38
    The plot contortions that very slowly unfold under Michael Radford's arthritic direction in Flawless are not much more entertaining.
    • Metascore: 50
    • Lou Lumenick 38
    It's pretty hard to make a dull movie about Henry VIII and his complicated love life, but The Other Boleyn Girl, a failed Oscar contender, manages to do just that, with yawns to spare.
    • Metascore: 48
    • Lou Lumenick 38
    Under Mark Palansky's uninspired direction, magic eludes Penelope in scene after scene.
    • Metascore: 40
    • Lou Lumenick 38
    Relentlessly depressing.
    • Metascore: 57
    • Lou Lumenick 38
    Well, nobody said The Grand was another "Best in Show."
    • Metascore: 36
    • Lou Lumenick 38
    Laughs are few and far between in the innuendo-laden script attributed to Dana Fox, who's also responsible for the reprehensible "The Wedding Date."
    • Metascore: 53
    • Lou Lumenick 38
    Feels like it was written and directed by an audience focus group in Omaha?
    • Metascore: 49
    • Lou Lumenick 38
    This movie fails so spectacularly - and on so many levels - that it's like watching a train plummet off a bridge.
    • Metascore: 43
    • Lou Lumenick 38
    Murphy has fallen back into the comfortable rut of sloppy family comedies that are low on laughs and high on toilet jokes.
    • Metascore: 47
    • Lou Lumenick 38
    Nicely photographed and has impressive sets; too bad there's so little going on that it seems long even at 78 minutes.