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41
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37
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35
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34
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34
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79
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79
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79
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78
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76
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76
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75
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75
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74
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73
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72
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72
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72
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72
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71
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70
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69
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68
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68
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68
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67
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66
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64
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63
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62
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62
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61
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56
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49
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Lucky Number Slevin
The Weinstein Company
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for strong violence, sexuality and language
Starring
Josh Hartnett,
Stanley Tucci,
Ben Kingsley,
Bruce Willis,
Morgan Freeman,
Lucy Liu,
Kevin Chamberlin,
and
Oliver Davis
Lucky Number Slevin is a thriller that twists and turns its way through an underworld of crime and revenge. Set in New York City, a case of mistaken identity lands Slevin (Hartnett) into the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city's most rival crime bosses. (The Weinstein Company)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Jason Smilovic
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Paul McGuigan
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 12, 2006
Theatrical: April 7, 2006
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| RUNNING TIME: |
109 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
83
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Hartnett has been stuck in the young-adult heartthrob mode for some time now, but this comic thriller may launch him into meatier fare.

75
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
The talk is witty, the twists are ingenious, the look and the mood are drop-dead.

75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Some of what occurs in Lucky Number Slevin is done with a wink and a nod, although McGuinan (á là Tarantino) doesn't skimp on the gore.

75
USA Today
Claudia Puig
This pop-culture-infused mistaken-identity thriller ultimately grabs hold and beguiles, though its convoluted plot takes a while to get going.

75
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Smilovic's rapid-fire, Tarantino-esque dialogue is consistently razor-sharp, and the elaborate set design - which leans heavily towards shiny, riotously patterned wallpaper - is an eyeball-jangling blast.

75
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Lucky Number Slevin would be too clever for its own good if it weren't so ... darn clever.
This violent flick is not in the same league as "The Sting," which has my vote for the cleverest winding road toward a happy ending in screenwriting history, but it contains nearly as deft a con job as that 1973 film.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Neva Chonin
For the most part, though, it works as a clever thriller that entertains through purposeful misdirection.

70
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
The film is stylish as hell with sharp dialogue, a tongue-in-cheek plot and visual and editing razzle-dazzle.

70
Time
Richard Schickel
The story never runs completely off the rails and is, in any event, just a pretext for a lot of very sharp badinage by Jason Smilovic--a screenwriter who would have been at home writing for Cary Grant--for yards of terrific movie acting and for some well-timed direction by Paul McGuigan.

67
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
A thriller that holds less interest - and less water - the more it reveals about what's actually going on.

67
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
They almost got it really right with Lucky Number Slevin, but they also almost got it horribly wrong.

63
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
The most original thing about Lucky Number Slevin is that it lets Lucy Liu play a screwball heroine.

60
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
With its diabolical ending, this is the movie equivalent of a crossword puzzle: fun, clever, and disposable.

60
Film Threat
Jeremy Mathews
Unfortunately, director Paul McGuigan tries to make it all serious at the end, and this isn't the kind of story that should be taken seriously.

60
Variety
Justin Chang
Thoroughly -- and sometimes justifiably -- infatuated with its own cleverness, this mistaken-identity thriller delights in narrative complication and Tarantino-esque self-awareness.

60
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
From its sly, amused performances to its surreal comic book gloss to its artfully nervous camerawork, Lucky Number Slevin sustains the blasé tone and look of a smart-aleck thriller that buries its heart under layers of attitude.

58
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
It's all superficially enjoyable, right up to the point where the big picture starts coming into focus and it's not worth looking anymore.

58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
It's the soulless quality of so many films that value devious plots, smug deception and quirky personality traits over actual story and character.

58
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
Features lots of cool dialogue but doesn't provide much of a movie in which to showcase it.

50
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Declarative sentences are as scarce as detectable feelings in this stylish, emptyish thriller -- it's Tarantino with the vital juices left out.
50
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
There's just too much death, it comes too quickly, it has no moral import, it becomes ultimately meaningless. It's not that hyper-violent movies are axiomatically a bad thing, it's just that this particular example is so laden with shootings that it becomes somehow tedious.

50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Too clever by half. It's the worst kind of con: It tells us it's a con, so we don't even have the consolation of being led down the garden path.

50
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
Lucky Number Slevin is a bag of nerves. Everything here is too much. The older the actors, the saltier the ham of their performances.

50
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
If "Pulp Fiction" impregnated "The Usual Suspects," the spawn would look a lot like Lucky Number Slevin. Great genes, but you keep wondering when the kid is going to grow up and find an identity of his own.

50
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Cursed--but ironically!--with stomach-churning '60s decor, Slevin might round off in Park Chanwook country, but the lingering sense of it is as an amusement park for the actors, who are as infectiously overjoyed for the bouncy badinage as preschoolers on Christmas morning. Like tired parents, our enjoyment is primarily vicarious.

50
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
A smug, deliberately convoluted mix tape of Tarantino, the Coen brothers, Guy Ritchie and Hitchcock with (mostly) a cast to die for, Lucky Number Slevin is great fun for, say, 20 minutes.

50
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Danny Aiello and Robert Forster also turn up in tiny roles that further serve to distract attention from the real business at hand.

50
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Comes packed with so many plot twists and reversals, there's barely any room left over for a story: The movie is all clever gotchas and hoodwinks, without any substance to go along with them.

50
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust
Lucky Number Slevin is an attempted cinematic sleight-of-hand that has its moments, but is finally just plain annoying, wearing its influences too broadly on its sleeve.

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Overwritten, over-designed, and too clever by 200 percent, the film does offer the pleasure of actors enjoying themselves.

50
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
With its wiry twists and turns, ends up buckling under the weight of its own cleverness.

50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
The proverbial seems awfully pale here. Fans of Q.T. will find it patently derivative. Fans of Elmore will find it, well, El-less.

50
New York Magazine
David Edelstein
The pretzeled syntax is fun for a while. But as the holes are filled in, the film stands revealed as just another vacuous revenge picture. It shrinks your perception of what movies can do.

40
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
Another drearily sadistic and pointless crime thriller.

38
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Is Josh Hartnett attracted to cinematic bombs, or do movies merely self-destruct once he signs on as the leading man?

25
Premiere
Glenn Kenny
Weinstein Co. honchos Bob and Harvey are chasing some of the old "Pulp Fiction" magic--and failing not only miserably, but kind of disgustingly.


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