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31 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 30 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 30
  3. Negative: 13 out of 30
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  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    75
    When Travolta plays, everybody has a good time.
  2. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    63
    A comedy of bad manners with many punchy moments and many irritatingly glib ones.
  3. San Francisco Examiner
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    63
    An unsteady stab at noir.
  4. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
    63
    Ephron's attempt at dark humor isn't a complete payoff overall in Lucky Numbers, but it doesn't fail either.
  5. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Frank Lovece
    60
    Amusing and at times uproarious.
  6. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Shawn Levy
    58
    Tends to beat some plain unfunny material to death.
  7. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    50
    The plot becomes a juggling act just when it should be a sprint. And there's another problem: Is it intended as a comedy, or not?
  8. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Sara Wildberger
    50
    Lucky Numbers is like stuff bought at an outlet mall. Sure, it's got the brand names and designer labels, but the color's a little strange, the style a little off, and nothing fits just right.
  9. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    50
    The characters she (Ephron) invents are not very interesting, and aside from the always reliable Travolta, the performances are uniformly aligned.
  10. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Carrie Rickey
    50
    This invitation to look down upon the stupidity of numskulls is one that should be declined as swiftly as a call to poke fun at Special Olympians.
  11. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Andy Seiler
    50
    Lucky Numbers is anything but lucky for stars John Travolta and Lisa Kudrow.
  12. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    50
    Despite a few tangy black comic moments, Lucky Numbers' is bummer theater.
  13. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Stephanie Zacharek
    50
    There's something refreshing about the way it invites us to splash around in its little wading pool of amorality.
  14. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    50
    Clever and diverting dark comedy.
  15. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Michael O'Sullivan
    50
    At times, it's downright nasty; and that's when I like it best.
  16. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Lisa Alspector
    50
    Pretty funny caper comedy.
  17. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    40
    Ephron, try as she might, can't give her codified champagne spin to a Resnick script that all too quickly runs out of fizz.
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  18. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Cody Clark
    39
    Whatever the amount on Roth's paycheck was, it's the only truly charmed sum Lucky Numbers has to offer.
  19. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Robert Horton
    30
    Nasty, regularly amusing black comedy.
  20. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    25
    A few mildly amusing gags don't outweigh the trite situations and mean-spirited attitude of this comedy.
  21. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Foreman
    25
    As lifeless and unfunny as a corpse on a slab.
  22. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    25
    The laughs are few in this inert, ungenerous comedy.
  23. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: William Arnold
    25
    Resnick's script never engages, the stars can't find the keys to their broadly played characters, and Ephron's direction is harrowingly out of sync.
  24. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Gemma Files
    20
    Ephron is still a director whose movies veer uncomfortably between the good -- make that adequate -- "You've Got Mail", the bad "This Is My Life" and the ugly Lucky Numbers. Pity.
  25. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: A.O. Scott
    20
    A weak-witted comedy.
  26. Time
    Reviewed by: Richard Schickel
    20
    Occasionally funny but mostly desperate, small-minded and uncompelling.
  27. Variety
    Reviewed by: Todd McCarthy
    20
    Strictly a minor-league late fall entry.
  28. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    10
    Airless, joyless, worse than you could even imagine.
  29. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Melissa Anderson
    10
    From the auteur who assaulted us with "Sleepless in Seattle" comes a more punishing film.
  30. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marc Savlov
    0
    Painfully lame and hamstrung by a viciously unfunny sense of humor.
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