Better Luck Tomorrow
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 29 Ratings
- Starring: Jason Tobin, Parry Shen, Sung Kang
- Summary: The story of a group of overachieving Asian-American high school honor students in a conservative Los Angeles suburb who lead a double life of mischief and petty crimes that alleviate the pressures of perfection. (Paramount)
- Director: Justin Lin
- Genre(s): Drama, Crime
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Positive: 23 out of 32
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Mixed: 9 out of 32
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100Not just a thriller, not just a social commentary, not just a comedy or a romance, but all of those in a clearly seen, brilliantly made film.
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80Mr. Lin makes the anxious grasping of these kids for some kind of emotional turf -- their own need to shatter the stereotypes that bind them -- the heart of Better Luck Tomorrow, a scenario that keeps the movie's blood racing.
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80It has the virtue of Lin's tangy wit but it also suffers from the vice of a director who, torn between personal vision and wide public reach, tends to smother his ideas under a veneer of cool.
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60Follows a consistently predictable arc. In some sequences, you can tell not just what's going to happen next, but what shot is coming next. And the movie's weird mixture of moralism and affectlessness cancel each other out.
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Positive: 16 out of 24
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Mixed: 3 out of 24
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Negative: 5 out of 24
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