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
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    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Just Friends
    Where are our Tracy/Hepburn screwball combos? Part of the appeal of "Wedding Crashers" was that Isla Fisher truly did have the comedic chops to match Vince Vaughn, and Just Friends suggests that Reynolds and Faris have potential greatness together too. Just not so much in this film.
    • 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.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    Seed of Chucky
    It's all fairly brilliantly twisted, but it seems that series creator Don Mancini has utterly given up on scares -- there's only one decent shock toward the very end.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Breakin' All the Rules
    Writer-director Daniel Taplitz seems to be trying to invoke classic screwball with this convoluted setup, but it plays like mediocre sitcom.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    28 Days
    As ridiculous as it all is...it's somehow eminently watchable.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 70 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Ringer
    These guys are laugh-out-loud funny, not because they're being belittled, but because they're finally getting a chance to show a sense of humor onscreen.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Luke Y. Thompson
    Secret Window
    This is fun for a while, but the ending is so ridiculous, and obvious, as to sully all the small joys that come before it.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Hoot
    Your individual tolerance for Jimmy Buffett music will determine how well all the scenes set to his music go down.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 70 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Da Vinci Code
    All in all, a respectable and predictable adaptation.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Simian Line
    Since we know most of this cast is capable of acting, one must assume they received little instruction. Even if they did, who could blame them for not listening? After all, they are dealing with a script that tries to play scenes featuring drunken ghosts with silly accents for tragedy.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    Saw
    It's brutal horror, where anyone can die at any time, and gorehounds will love it. Average folks may find it too intense.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    How the Grinch Stole Christmas
    The scenes involving just him (Carrey) are funny and full of life. All the other scenes are not.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 70 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Break-Up
    Is The Break-Up worth your time? Let's put it this way: Whenever Vaughn is onscreen, it is. When he's not, it ain't. The movie's a comedy, but it's also about a breakup, so it gets a bit maudlin toward the end.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    Must Love Dogs
    The movie does find fresh ways to tweak the formula, making it more than the sum of its broad strokes.
    • 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.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Crazy in Alabama
    Feels like two films that aren't closely related enough, either tonally or narratively, to warrant their intertwining.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Singing Detective
    Try to forget about Michael Gambon in Potter's original BBC miniseries; Keith Gordon's film is its own thing, full of Brechtian artifice and oddball humor -- Mel Gibson's old man act in particular.
    • 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.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Club Dread
    The Broken Lizard types bring the best out of Paxton, only to abandon him in the second half and focus on themselves. A bit more humility might have served them in better stead.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 42 Luke Y. Thompson
    Gigi & Nate
    For a solid portion of its running time, Gigi & Nate at least delivers what it promises: a young man and his monkey—to be more specific, a young, newly quadriplegic man and his service monkey.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Pope's Exorcist
    It’s impossible to take any of this remotely seriously, or find it particularly frightening. But it is its own sort of fun, at least for a while.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Get Rich or Die Tryin'
    50 Cent sounds articulate in his raps, but as a lead actor, he talks like his mouth is filled with food.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 80 Luke Y. Thompson
    Click
    Not everything jells, but Click is funnier and more elaborately clever than anything Sandler's done in years.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
    The skeleton's a hoot, and the score, credited to the solo-monikered Valentino, is pitch-perfect. Some judicious editing would make a huge improvement, however, because even at 90 minutes, it feels like Blamire's stretching the joke a bit thin.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 70 Luke Y. Thompson
    Just Looking
    Deserves more than just a look.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    EuroTrip
    The opening credits -- animated sequences that spoof airline safety cards -- are a high point, but if you're not a prude, the rest of the flick ain't bad either.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 70 Luke Y. Thompson
    Kicking & Screaming
    This might be the most predictable movie of the year, but at least it delivers everything you expect it to.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Luke Y. Thompson
    Down and Derby
    You will regret paying money to see something that unfolds rather like something you'd watch on TV when you're ill and bedridden and confronted with nothing else but daytime soaps.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Mean Machine
    If you have any desire to see this movie, you really should go rent "The Longest Yard" instead. It's available on DVD, and the '70s hairdos alone are worth the rental price.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Sleeping Dogs
    Crowe is quite capable of being compelling even when doing banal stuff—the highlight here is a variation on the “falling off the wagon” trope, as he captures the sheer delight of a guy who has literally forgotten how much he loves whiskey. The end point, like the movie’s, feels inevitable, but the journey there contains small joys.
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