Lucky You
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: May 4, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 29 Critic Reviews
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10
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14
Negative:
5
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Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Like "The Hustler," this absorbing Las Vegas story about a professional poker player (Eric Bana) uses gambling to tell a tale of moral regeneration. But Bana can't carry a picture like Paul Newman, and poker proves less photogenic than pool. Read full review
60
EmpireIan Nathan
A 'realistic' Vegas movie that will set no-one's soul on fire, but is further proof that Hanson can lend his talents to any style of movie. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Curiously lifeless, Lucky You feels like poker without stakes; it goes through the motions with nothing to play for. Read full review
50
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
Even though it is sometimes dull and generally thin, there is something winning about the movie's genial lack of ambition. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
The result is that most of the picture plays out as a series of scenes in which our hero sits there, gets angry and loses all his money. Read full review
50
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
Even the title is off. I haven't heard an honest "Lucky You" since I was in sixth grade. For most people it registers as a sneer. Read full review
50
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
Long, utterly predictable and always bland. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
If you're not a rabid fan of Texas hold 'em -- the poker phenomenon that swept the country a couple of years ago but is hardly cutting edge now -- you might want to step quickly away from Lucky You. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
I watched this movie thinking that it used the idea of taking a chance on cards as a metaphor for taking a chance on love. I was dead wrong. Read full review
50
Portland OregonianM. E. Russell
If anyone could take a movie about a bunch of jerks who play poker and make it interesting, it should be Curtis Hanson. Or rather, it should have been. Read full review
50
The New YorkerDavid Denby
At key moments, Lucky You loses its nerve. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
Poker has proven itself a popular spectator sport on television -- at least in the short run -- but as scripted drama, where you can pretty much guess the winner of a given hand, it's dull, dull, dull. Read full review
40
VarietyBrian Lowry
The result is dull and lifeless. Read full review
40
Film ThreatPete Vonder Haar
Had Lucky You played strictly as a father-son drama set against the background of competitive Texas Hold 'Em, it would've been a much better movie based on the strength of Hanson's direction and Duvall's performance alone. But no, somewhere along the line they had to make this a romance, and that's the movie's fatal flaw. Read full review
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