For 2,201 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:
2,201 movie reviews
    • Metascore: 75
    • Lou Lumenick 88
    So gorgeously animated and so thoroughly entertaining for all ages that only an ogre would complain it's not quite as fresh as the original.
    • Metascore: 73
    • Lou Lumenick 88
    An exquisitely crafted Civil War epic that combines the epic romantic sweep of "Gone With the Wind" with a more intimate voice that speaks eloquently to the war-weary nation of today.
    • Metascore: 83
    • Lou Lumenick 88
    Sequels don't get much better - or smarter - than the action-, drama-, romance- and comedy-packed Spider-Man 2, which miraculously improves on the webslinger's hugely popular first screen adventure in every imaginable department.
    • Metascore: 85
    • Lou Lumenick 88
    It's a positive hat trick by John Cameron Mitchell.
    • Metascore: 55
    • Lou Lumenick 88
    A summery confection crammed with fresh young talented faces that's hard not to love.
    • Metascore: 88
    • Lou Lumenick 88
    As hip, funny and truthful a sleeper as has ever flown under Tinseltown's radar.
    • Metascore: 79
    • Lou Lumenick 88
    It's as purely entertaining as it is thought-provoking and timely.
    • Metascore: 73
    • Lou Lumenick 88
    Ray
    Contains large helpings of Hollywood schmaltz, stereotype and clich‚, but it's also pretty impossible to resist.
    • Metascore: 48
    • Lou Lumenick 88
    A civics lesson about integration very artfully - and entertainingly - disguised as an upbeat family sports movie.
    • Metascore: 82
    • Lou Lumenick 88
    This movie belongs to its young stars, who have grown immensely as actors since they were first ideally cast by Chris Columbus, the hack who directed the first two movies.
    • Metascore: 72
    • Lou Lumenick 88
    One of the year's best.
    • Metascore: 83
    • Lou Lumenick 88
    Confirms Leigh's reputation as one of the world's master filmmakers - and showcases Staunton as one of its great actresses.
    • Metascore: 79
    • Lou Lumenick 88
    One of the year's best.
    • Metascore: 79
    • Lou Lumenick 88
    A documentary that exerts a car-wreck fascination as it follows the icon through her 75th year (she's now 77) while looking back over her tumult-filled life and career.
    • Metascore: 53
    • Lou Lumenick 88
    Head and shoulders above the sort of lightheaded epics Hollywood typically offers during the summer season.
    • Metascore: 67
    • Lou Lumenick 88
    A head-clearing, mind-blowing blast from the past - one of the year's best.
    • Metascore: 85
    • Lou Lumenick 88
    So terrifically entertaining, it would be a shame if it didn't inspire a companion piece on New York.
    • Metascore: 79
    • Lou Lumenick 88
    A remarkable, eye-popping nature documentary.
    • Metascore: 79
    • Lou Lumenick 88
    Not many people are making silent horror serials these days, but Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin pushes his love of lurid melodrama to the limit in his latest demented treat, Brand Upon the Brain!
    • Metascore: 66
    • Lou Lumenick 88
    For me, the movie's high point comes when Tony auditions for a role in a Martin Scorsese movie. Tony learns not to try so hard -- a lesson that Garcia also seems to have absorbed from City Island.
    • Metascore: 66
    • Lou Lumenick 88
    Like the Master of Suspense's best films, Double Take (which makes great use of Bernard Herrmann's haunting "Psycho" score) is an intellectual puzzle that also works as a thoroughly accessible entertainment.
    • Metascore: 92
    • Lou Lumenick 88
    May not be a masterpiece, but it still had me in tears at the end.
    • Metascore: 85
    • Lou Lumenick 88
    A gut-wrenching, politically neutral documentary that spends more than a year with a platoon of American GIs in a valley that's been called the most dangerous spot on Earth.
    • Metascore: 77
    • Lou Lumenick 88
    Duvall and Spacek are so in tune with each other's rhythms -- despite their 20-year age difference -- that it's hard to believe they've never acted together before.
    • Metascore: 88
    • Lou Lumenick 88
    Extremely unsettling and thought- provoking.
    • Metascore: 72
    • Lou Lumenick 88
    Writer-director Will Gluck has written a stiletto-sharp, zinger-filled script that recalls "Mean Girls" as well as the films of John Hughes, which are sampled to amusing effect in a clever clip montage.
    • Metascore: 74
    • Lou Lumenick 88
    An exciting and extremely well acted film. Even a nearly unrecognizable Blake Lively impresses in the key role of Jem's sister and Doug's sometime girlfriend.
    • Metascore: 79
    • Lou Lumenick 88
    The scariest, creepiest and most elegantly filmed horror movie I've seen in years - it positively drives a stake through the competition.
    • Metascore: 65
    • Lou Lumenick 88
    Sally Hawkins is the heart and soul of Made in Dagenham, but another actress to watch for is the equally wonderful Rosamund Pike. She steals every scene she's in as the sympathetic wife of Rita's sexist boss (Rupert Graves).
    • Metascore: 85
    • Lou Lumenick 88
    For all its flaws, The Tree of Life is a stunning exception to the rule that you can safely check your brain at the popcorn counter until after Labor Day. That's enough to place it among the year's best movies, or at least most-talked-about ones.