Luke Y. Thompson

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Dallas Observer, New Times (L.A.), The A.V. Club, Village Voice
For 520 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 8.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Luke Y. Thompson's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 58
Highest review score: 100 Dragon Inn (1967)
Lowest review score: 0 Slackers
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 204 out of 520
  2. Mixed: 228 out of 520
  3. Negative: 88 out of 520
520 movie reviews
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    • 47 Metascore
    • 33 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Nun II
    At least the jump scares are effective, especially in IMAX theaters where the headrests rumble every time Valak makes a sudden move. That, and a couple of decent makeup tricks are pretty much all The Nun II has. The character deserves better, and so do you really.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 33 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Curse of Bridge Hollow
    Watching it feels like attending a Halloween party and never striking up a conversation with anyone; you can only look at the decorations for so long before getting bored.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 33 Luke Y. Thompson
    Ghosted
    There’s a funny notion in Chris Evans effectively playing a damsel in distress, but like everything else in Ghosted, the filmmakers have no idea how to play it.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 33 Luke Y. Thompson
    God Is a Bullet
    Cut God Is A Bullet down to a tight 90 minutes, and it might at least consistently deliver the cheap thrills and nihilistic kick it only occasionally achieves.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Wicker Park
    If Alfred Hitchcock were retarded, lobotomized, and freshly dug up, he might possibly c--- out a movie like this one.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    A Galaxy Far, Far Away
    Of all the various low-budget documentaries chronicling the Star Wars phenomenon, Tariq Jalil's is certainly the most recent. There's not a whole lot else to say about it.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Drumline
    If you were ever in marching band, you'll love this; if not, stay far away.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Enough
    You probably saw this film the last time around, when it was called "Sleeping With the Enemy." This one merely adds a better car chase and more ass-kicking.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    A Love Divided
    What saves the film from utter forgettability are the strong supporting performances, especially from Peter Caffrey as the town atheist, and Tony Doyle.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Last Holiday
    If you really want to live life to the fullest, step one is to avoid wasting an hour and a half of your life in a theater showing Last Holiday.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story
    It's a bad sign when you're rooting for the film to hurry up and get to its subjects' deaths just so the documentary will be over, but it's indicative of how uncompelling the movie is unless it happens to cover your particular area of interest.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Life of David Gale
    Some of this stuff should give you some good laughs. Unfortunately, the film's not a comedy, and once the conservative-bashing wears off, the alleged thriller elements kick in. Too bad that for you, the viewer, there's still another hour to go.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Cell
    King's decision to co-write the script and turn it into a CliffsNotes version of The Stand only makes things worse.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Price of Milk
    This sort of thing is the problem with making stuff up as you go along.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    In Search of Peace
    History buffs will find this film lacking, and it isn't really deep enough to educate the rest of us as thoroughly as it should.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Bully
    Like the recent "Baise-moi," Bully is a whole lot of shock and titillation trying to pretend it's saying something. Unlike the French import, however, there's no awareness of its own absurdity, nor anything for the audience to care about in the slightest.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Mine
    The co-director/co-writer team of Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro are none too subtle, and their reliance on hallucination sequences suggests a (misguided) lack of faith in Hammer to pull this off by himself.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Friday After Next
    Director Marcus Raboy hasn't made a bad movie, exactly -- just one that seems to have forgotten its own jokes, much as those who watch it will forget everything about it a week later, stoned or not.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    When Will I Be Loved
    It's unfortunate that, nudity and all, this is one of Toback's absolute worst efforts.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Spriggan
    The best way to watch it is with a loaded bong, the volume turned down and the Orb cranked up on your stereo.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Just a Kiss
    Not just another disposable romantic comedy, but an ambitious, overreaching mess.
    • New Times (L.A.)
    • 25 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    American Outlaws
    So desperate are the filmmakers to create a "hip" western that they try to cram it with action sequences that aren't very exciting.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Cave
    There's no reason to see this film in a theater -- you'll hate yourself for paying full price. Plus, you'll need beer, and lots of it, to appreciate the movie properly.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Venom
    The final showdown between sole survivor and killer is sufficiently well done that you wonder why the rest didn't measure up.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Deliver Us from Eva
    Not that there aren't funny moments in the film, but they're cobbled together so awkwardly that you'd never suspect the director had made a film before.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Perfect Man
    It's a lame Heather Locklear romantic comedy and a lame Hilary Duff romantic comedy all in one!
    • 15 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
    While not entirely successful, at least deserves points for creativity.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Revolution OS
    Ultimately, the film amounts to being lectured to by tech-geeks, if you're up for that sort of thing.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Gigli
    So how bad, in the final analysis, is Gigli? The best that can be said is that it doesn't beat out "The Ladies Man" as the most abrasively awful film of the past five years, nor does it top "Battlefield Earth" for sheer misguided lunacy.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    96 Souls
    That some of the super-visions manage to disturb regardless is arguably a testament to writer-director Stanley Jacobs, but he’d have been better off keeping this as his demo reel and showing whatever he does next to the public at large.
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