Lou Lumenick

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New York Post
For 2,487 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 8.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Lou Lumenick's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 56
Highest review score: 100 The Band Wagon
Lowest review score: 0 Genius
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,240 out of 2487
  2. Mixed: 549 out of 2487
  3. Negative: 698 out of 2487
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Lou Lumenick
    Deepwater Horizon
    What we’ve got is a highly entertaining nautical version of “The Towering Inferno’’ (still my favorite guilty pleasure of all time).
    • 54 Metascore
    • 75 Lou Lumenick
    The Magnificent Seven
    This entertaining and handsome-looking version of The Magnificent Seven is very much tailored to his star, right down to Washington’s real-life history as a preacher’s son.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Lou Lumenick
    Sully
    At its heart, this is a thrilling tribute to a modest hero who rose to an extraordinary occasion.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 25 Lou Lumenick
    Max Rose
    Two decades after his last film, the legendary Jerry Lewis performs a truly unfortunate encore playing an elderly widower in writer-director Daniel Noah’s morose and thoroughly unconvincing drama.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 0 Lou Lumenick
    Ben-Hur
    There’s a fatally miscast lead (Jack Huston, you are no Charlton Heston), cut-rate special effects, reams of eyeball-glazing dialogue, and a schmaltzy “inspirational” script that pointlessly alters the story in ways that make absolutely no sense.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Lou Lumenick
    Florence Foster Jenkins
    Hugh Grant is no less great (and has terrific chemistry with Streep) in his juiciest role in years as St. Clair.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Lou Lumenick
    Lights Out
    The simple, highly effective gimmick of this straightforward shocker is a malevolent clawed spectre named Diana (Alicia Vela-Bailey), who only appears in the dark.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Lou Lumenick
    The Infiltrator
    The Infiltrator satisfyingly builds to an improbable but ripped-from-the-headlines climax.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Lou Lumenick
    Captain Fantastic
    Captain Fantastic isn’t only one of the year’s best movies, but one of the best cast and best acted, right down to the smaller roles.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Lou Lumenick
    The BFG
    A visually dazzling summer treat.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 25 Lou Lumenick
    Independence Day: Resurgence
    The first “Independence Day’’ was a lot of fun, with a great lines and cutting-edge special effects. It was much imitated, so the sequel plays like a faded, eighth-generation copy with a cast that’s shooting blanks when it comes to humor.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Lou Lumenick
    Finding Dory
    If there has ever been a better voice performance in an animated film than Ellen DeGeneres’ in Pixar’s wonderful sequel Finding Dory, I sure can’t think of it. Her tour de force even surpasses Robin Williams in “Aladdin.”
    • 56 Metascore
    • 0 Lou Lumenick
    Genius
    Jude Law gives arguably the worst performance of his career as Wolfe in Genius, the ham-fisted directing debut of noted British theater figure Michael Grandage, bombastically adapted by John Logan (“Gladiator’’) from a biography by A. Scott Berg.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Lou Lumenick
    The Conjuring 2
    The Conjuring 2 belongs to Wilson and Farmiga as the sincere, loving, slightly square Warrens, with Wan tightening the screws for a rousing series of cliffhangers that should have audiences screaming. Expect another sequel for sure.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Lou Lumenick
    Me Before You
    Unfortunately, this ultra-glossy romantic drama derived from a best seller twists into very dark territory — a drastic tonal shift that neither its stars nor debuting director, Thea Sharrock, a respected stage veteran, manage with dramatic credibility.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Lou Lumenick
    The Nice Guys
    Some editing would have made The Nice Guys easier to love — at times it feels as bloated as Crowe’s gut. It’s neither as fast, fresh or as funny as Black’s “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang’’ (2005).
    • 43 Metascore
    • 38 Lou Lumenick
    The Angry Birds Movie
    Smartphone apps don’t particularly lend themselves well to political allegory or satire. But that’s precisely what the makers of this fitfully amusing animated adaptation of the once-popular game seem to be fruitlessly attempting.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Lou Lumenick
    Money Monster
    Cross “Dog Day Afternoon’’ with “The Big Short’’ and throw in a dash of “Network’’ and you’ve got Money Monster, a clever financial thriller with comic overtones that’s a solid investment of your time thanks to stellar work by George Clooney and Julia Roberts.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Lou Lumenick
    Dark Horse
    It’s only a matter of time before someone turns Louise Osmond’s crowd-pleasing documentary, about people in a working-class Welsh mining village invading the snobbish “sport of kings,” gets turned into “The Full Monty” on four hooves.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Lou Lumenick
    A Bigger Splash
    Italian director Luca Guadagnino draws terrific performances from his four stars.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Lou Lumenick
    The Man Who Knew Infinity
    Patel has his most rewarding role since “Slumdog.’’
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Lou Lumenick
    Elvis & Nixon
    Elvis & Nixon is the funniest Nixon movie since 1999’s forgotten “Dick.” That comedy was a Watergate-era fantasy, but as incredible as it seems, this one is based more or less directly on fact. A photograph of the meeting is the most requested image at the National Archives.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Lou Lumenick
    The Meddler
    Sarandon gets great support from a cast that includes J.K. Simmons as a laid-back retired cop who pursues Minnie, and Jason Ritter as the ex-boyfriend whom Minnie desperately plots to reunite with her daughter.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Lou Lumenick
    Green Room
    Patrick Stewart has a blast playing against type as a soft-spoken white supremacist holding a punk rock band as his temporary prisoners in Jeremy Saulnier’s nicely crafted, low-budget comedy-thriller.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Lou Lumenick
    Barbershop: The Next Cut
    A cut above the season’s other belated sequels like “My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2’’ and “Zoolander 2.’’
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Lou Lumenick
    One More Time
    Christopher Walken is in top form as Paul Lombard, an aging romantic crooner.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Lou Lumenick
    Mr. Right
    This sort of violent comedy — think “True Lies’’ meets “Grosse Pointe Blank’’ — is tough to pull off, but Spanish director Paco Cabezas and screenwriter Max Landis (“American Ultra’’) nail a screwball fantasy vibe that stops just inches short of downright silliness.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Lou Lumenick
    Miles Ahead
    Don Cheadle gives one of the best performances of his career as jazz legend Miles Davis in Miles Ahead, even if his debut as a director ends up being an unfocused disappointment.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 12 Lou Lumenick
    Get a Job
    Only Bryan Cranston, as Teller’s downsized dad, emerges with his dignity fully intact from Get a Job, whose scattershot direction is credited to Dylan Kidd (“Roger Dodger”).
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Lou Lumenick
    Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
    While “300" maestro Snyder puts together some very striking scenes — which may be enough for many fanboys — they never really cohere into a whole. He literally throws in the kitchen sink in a film that frantically introduces characters and concepts while never clearly establishing the rules of the DC Comics universe.
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