Logan Lucky
ARP Sélection | Release Date: August 18, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 51 Critic Reviews
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47
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100
TimeStephanie ZacharekAug 17, 2017
Independently financed and distributed by Soderbergh, Logan Lucky is a magnificent movie that comes disguised as a modest one. Or, as I like to call it, a Joe Bang. Read full review
100
The New York TimesA.O. ScottAug 16, 2017
Logan Lucky is a terrific movie. That’s a matter of skill, and maybe also of luck. But mostly it’s a matter of generosity. Read full review
100
The PlaylistDrew TaylorJul 24, 2017
This is a brilliantly constructed, whip-smart, and laugh-out-loud-funny romp from a filmmaker whose precision and craft is nearly unparalleled. It’s hard to think of a movie this year that has been as singularly delightful, one that, with each passing moment, reveals something charming or odd or real. Read full review
91
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerAug 15, 2017
Soderbergh isn’t exactly hiding a secret drama inside his barrel of laughs and twists. But his comeback project keeps quiet about being one of the sweetest, most affirming movies he’s ever made. Read full review
91
The Film StageNick NewmanJul 24, 2017
Logan Lucky‘s spell is light, the magic casual. Read full review
90
VarietyOwen GleibermanJul 24, 2017
Logan Lucky is Soderbergh in mid-season form, and there should be a solid summer niche for a movie that’s this much ripsnorting fun. Read full review
89
Paste MagazineWill LeitchAug 15, 2017
Soderbergh has been an indie wunderkind, an anarchic prankster, a self-sabotaging bomb thrower, even a studio hack. Logan Lucky isn’t the best movie he’s ever made, but it’s pointing him a most fascinating new direction—the auteur as compulsive entertainer. He’s well on his way. Read full review
88
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzAug 17, 2017
The film hits a truly unexpected high when it introduces Daniel Craig's bank-vault expert Joe Bang, an imprisoned force of comic fury whose unhinged performance elevates Logan Lucky above any notions of genre shtick. Good luck keeping that one locked up. Read full review
88
St. Louis Post-DispatchCalvin WilsonAug 17, 2017
Tatum is terrific as a sort of anti-Clooney, and Driver complements him perfectly. Read full review
88
Rolling StonePeter TraversAug 17, 2017
It's a terrific, twisty, funny-as-hell crime flick about so-called hicks who decide that making America great again starts right at home. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzAug 17, 2017
The movie is put together with the no-fuss confidence of Soderbergh's best entertainments, staging comedic banter and suspense sequences with equal assurance, even playing sly perception games with the audience by making you wonder how smart or dumb the characters (and the movie) actually are. Read full review
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperAug 16, 2017
Logan Lucky is great fun and one of the most purely entertaining movies of the year. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyAug 17, 2017
A fizzy, twisty Southern-fried heist flick that’s more enjoyable the less you try to dissect it. Read full review
83
ConsequenceDominick Suzanne-MayerAug 17, 2017
It’s the kind of wholly fun, satisfying late-summer fare that audiences will crave as the season winds down on its face, but like much of the director’s more recent output, it’s operating on several more thoughtful levels at the same time. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawAug 24, 2017
It’s always supremely watchable, but rarely, if ever, commits itself to genuine jeopardy or suspense. Instead of edge-of-the-seat moments, there are gags and clever touches and excellent performances. Read full review
80
CineVueJoe WalshAug 24, 2017
Logan Lucky is satisfying on the simplest of levels, but if you peel back the layers it becomes evermore rewarding. Read full review
80
The TelegraphTim RobeyAug 24, 2017
The film’s comedy is loose and generous, and its esprit de corps sneaks up on you with a soft tread. Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinAug 17, 2017
The whole movie is a trick, reversing our expectations at nearly every turn and casting actors in roles that they were not exactly born to play, but do so with relish. Read full review
80
Time OutJoshua RothkopfAug 17, 2017
When the plot stops cold for a beauty-pageant performance of exquisite purity, you’ll feel like you’re watching the most American film of the year. Read full review
80
VoxAlissa WilkinsonAug 17, 2017
The best part of Logan Lucky is that from the get-go you know you’re in confident hands, and whatever’s about to happen, it’s going to be great. Read full review
80
New York Daily NewsStephen Whitty Aug 17, 2017
The cast is a hoot, too. Tatum is full of easy charm but Adam Driver is even better as his brooding brother (clearly they’re sons of different mothers). There’s also a nice, out-of-character appearance by Katie Holmes, playing Logan’s hair-sprayed, hard-edged ex. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranAug 17, 2017
If it verges on being a little too pleased with itself for its own good, that's an acceptable price to pay for something that makes you smile. Read full review
80
Village VoiceApril WolfeAug 15, 2017
It’s a relief to watch a commercial movie from a director who trusts you to figure out plot points along the way. Read full review
80
Total FilmKevin HarleyAug 14, 2017
In Soderbergh’s self-aware hands, it’s a character-centric, director-driven, genre-savvy invitation to take pleasure in a job well orchestrated, right up to a judicious closing shot that leaves you wanting to linger awhile with its motley crew. Read full review
80
IGNAlex WelchJul 27, 2017
With his latest directorial effort, Soderbergh has made a film that not only constantly pokes fun at its own characters and their lives, but finds a way to imbue each of them with a soul and heart along the way. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyJul 24, 2017
Working with a script by first-time writer Rebecca Blunt, Soderbergh has made the sort of breezy, unpretentious, just-for-fun film that scarcely exists anymore, one almost anyone could enjoy. Read full review
80
Screen DailyTim GriersonJul 24, 2017
In a movie full of cons, the greatest may be how deceptively easy Soderbergh makes this whole enterprise seem. Read full review
80
We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoJul 24, 2017
If your script is good enough to pull Steven Soderbergh from “retirement,” color me intrigued. Such is true of Logan Lucky. An Ocean’s 7-11 hootenanny with Southern charm and Coen sensibilities. Read full review
80
ScreenCrushE. Oliver WhitneyJul 24, 2017
Soderbergh did some impressive work during his break from the movies, but Logan Lucky proves his talents need to be showcased on the big screen, melding crime and suspense with comedy. Read full review
80
The GuardianJordan HoffmanJul 24, 2017
It’s all wonderfully preposterous, but also endearing and gratifying. Read full review
80
EmpireAndrew LowryJul 24, 2017
Even if it needed one last push to make it truly exceptional, there’s a lot to enjoy here. And Soderbergh once again attracts a cast it’s a pleasure to spend time with. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesAug 16, 2017
Heartfelt felicitations to Soderbergh on his rebirth of the cool. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliAug 18, 2017
Although Logan Lucky works as a heist film, it neither amazes with its narrative contortions nor keeps the audience waiting with baited breath for the unveiling of some big twist. Read full review
75
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerAug 18, 2017
It’s often enjoyable and very forgettable, which may be as good as it gets for movies released in August. Read full review
75
New York PostSara StewartAug 17, 2017
It’s a lark, if you can tolerate the hammy redneck accents, and confirms that Soderbergh is as agile as ever at knitting together all the moving parts of a complex heist. Read full review
75
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallAug 17, 2017
For all its eccentricity Logan Lucky too often reminds us of movies Soderbergh or someone else made before. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsAug 17, 2017
The movie’s engagement is more about casual precision than cinematic exuberance, and the banter’s democratically distributed among all its characters, right on the edge of caricature. Read full review
75
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldAug 17, 2017
Soderbergh keeps the action light and playful, and lets the cast members find their own silliness within it. Read full review
75
USA TodayBrian TruittAug 16, 2017
Seemingly fueled by Mountain Dew and Hostess pies, the delightfully berzerk Logan Lucky is a love letter to backwoods ingenuity and, at a time with a deep divide between red and blue states, a universal dose of hillbilly hilarity. Read full review
75
Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonAug 16, 2017
The movie has things on its mind, like the expendability of labor in the modern workplace. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineChristopher GrayAug 15, 2017
Logan Lucky is both a Robin Hood fantasy and a uniquely Soderberghian lark, an ensemble comedy that’s simultaneously effervescent and cerebral. Read full review
75
IndieWireDavid EhrlichJul 24, 2017
If Logan Lucky begs you not to take it seriously, that doesn’t mean it lacks real soul. Read full review
70
SlateDana StevensAug 24, 2017
Though Logan Lucky’s funny and committed cast (also including Dwight Yoakam, an underused Katherine Waterston, and a barely there Hilary Swank) provides a steady supply of good-sized laughs, this film struck me as underachieving on several fronts. Read full review
70
The New YorkerRichard BrodyAug 24, 2017
In Logan Lucky, Soderbergh, for all his felicitous exertions, falls back on a certain artistic facility. This doesn’t mean that the film was easy to make; it means that Soderbergh relies on what he knows rather than wandering off into what he doesn’t. He knows a lot, and it shows; his pleasure in sharing it is substantial. Read full review
70
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzAug 17, 2017
I liked the movie — it’s certainly well made, and a lot of fun — but I mostly found myself laughing at it, not with it. Read full review
70
TheWrapRobert AbeleJul 25, 2017
As summer movies go, Logan Lucky is especially tasty bar food, slung by a master. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTy BurrAug 16, 2017
The new movie, a heist comedy, has been described in some quarters as “Ocean’s 11” for the NASCAR crowd, and that’s not wrong. It also feels like the director is trying to reverse-engineer one of the Coen brothers’ loopier excursions and not getting every one of the pieces in order. Read full review
60
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottAug 16, 2017
It works well as a just-for-fun exercise that benefits from a nice sense of rhythm, a great cast and an overall sense of light-heartedness. Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn HornadayAug 17, 2017
As lighthearted, late-summer escapism goes, Logan Lucky is an amusing if convoluted and undisciplined bagatelle. As a hotly anticipated comeback, it feels like a slightly dippy, ultimately disposable warm-up of a director whose brains, chops and judicious taste we need more than ever. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreAug 13, 2017
The damned thing doesn’t play. The rube jokes fall flat, the complex caper doesn’t skate by the way the best of the “Oceans” pictures did. It’s “Masterminds” meets “Little Miss Sunshine,” with a heaping helping of Coen Brothers “Burn After Reading” contempt for its characters. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleAug 16, 2017
Logan Lucky is not a contemptible piece of work. It’s a genuine effort by talented people that never quite comes off. Read full review
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