...unexpectedly menacing and with a palpable tension throughout...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 24, 2021

There are too many loopholes in the storyline and an undefined set of rules regarding the main character's brain damage, which generate more aggravation than satisfaction.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 26, 2020

Gripping, intense and involved with a sympathetic permeating dichotomy, despite a few slips, The Lookout is the film to be on the lookout for this weekend.

| Nov 14, 2019

It uses its strengths to keep you guessing, but it also ensures emotive heft. The movie could have easily been unbalanced, but instead it's uniquely engaging.

| Jun 15, 2018

Strip away the head-trauma hero, and you're left with a white-trash heist film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 9, 2014

A professional script professionally shot, rather than a personal story burning to be told

| Aug 27, 2009

First-time director Scott Frank, who penned Out of Sight and Minority Report, shapes some sharp noirish notes.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 23, 2009

The vast majority of his veteran contemporaries should be so lucky as to have their best dramas be as engrossing as Frank's first.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 20, 2008

Lookout for this one and grab it.

| Oct 18, 2008

Maybe in 10 more years we'll be saying how weird it is that Gordon-Levitt used to play all those parts requiring him to crouch in corners taking other people's abuse. We should cross our fingers and put in a request for romantic comedy now.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Most noirs are coming of age stories where an innocent learns how vicious and cruel the world can be. Only he usually learns it while a hunk of hot lead burns in his gut.

| Apr 18, 2008

Strong performances fill this terrific crime drama.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 2, 2008

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| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 26, 2008

A perfect little movie about flawed characters.

| Original Score: A | Jan 21, 2008

Solid, if somewhat derivative filmmaking. A quiet thriller with some great performances.

| Original Score: B | Jan 2, 2008

The straightforward routine story has plot holes you can drive a tractor through and a screenplay that's too clean for the messy story it's spinning.

| Original Score: C+ | Dec 22, 2007

Certain scenes feel too glib and stagey, as though they've been doused with pop video gloss - particularly the snow, which surely had its own assistant, make-up artist and trailer.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 7, 2007

Engaging, smartly directed thriller with fantastic performances from Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Jeff Daniels, though the script commits a couple of glaring errors along the way.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 3, 2007

The Lookout is a well made psychological thriller which only disappoints with its ending.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 2, 2007

Full of memorable dialogue and sharp performances, it's let down only by its perfunctory climax.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 2, 2007