| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
When Travolta plays, everybody has a good time.
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| 63 |
Baltimore Sun
Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
Ephron's attempt at dark humor isn't a complete payoff overall in Lucky Numbers, but it doesn't fail either.
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| 63 |
San Francisco Examiner
An unsteady stab at noir.
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| 63 |
Chicago Tribune
A comedy of bad manners with many punchy moments and many irritatingly glib ones.
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| 60 |
TV Guide
Amusing and at times uproarious.
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| 58 |
Portland Oregonian
Tends to beat some plain unfunny material to death.
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| 50 |
Miami Herald
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.
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| 50 |
Chicago Reader
Pretty funny caper comedy.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
The characters she (Ephron) invents are not very interesting, and aside from the always reliable Travolta, the performances are uniformly aligned.
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| 50 |
Washington Post
At times, it's downright nasty; and that's when I like it best.
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| 50 |
USA Today
Lucky Numbers is anything but lucky for stars John Travolta and Lisa Kudrow.
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| 50 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
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.
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| 50 |
Los Angeles Times
Clever and diverting dark comedy.
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| 50 |
Salon.com
There's something refreshing about the way it invites us to splash around in its little wading pool of amorality.
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| 50 |
Boston Globe
Despite a few tangy black comic moments, Lucky Numbers' is bummer theater.
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| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times
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?
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| 40 |
Rolling Stone
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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| 39 |
Mr. Showbiz
Whatever the amount on Roth's paycheck was, it's the only truly charmed sum Lucky Numbers has to offer.
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| 30 |
Film.com
Nasty, regularly amusing black comedy.
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| 25 |
Entertainment Weekly
The laughs are few in this inert, ungenerous comedy.
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| 25 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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.
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| 25 |
Christian Science Monitor
A few mildly amusing gags don't outweigh the trite situations and mean-spirited attitude of this comedy.
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| 25 |
New York Post
As lifeless and unfunny as a corpse on a slab.
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| 20 |
The New York Times
A weak-witted comedy.
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| 20 |
Film.com
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.
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| 20 |
Time
Occasionally funny but mostly desperate, small-minded and uncompelling.
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| 20 |
Variety
Strictly a minor-league late fall entry.
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| 10 |
Village Voice
Melissa Anderson
From the auteur who assaulted us with "Sleepless in Seattle" comes a more punishing film.
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| 10 |
LA Weekly
Airless, joyless, worse than you could even imagine.
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| 0 |
Austin Chronicle
Painfully lame and hamstrung by a viciously unfunny sense of humor.
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