This is no fluffy eulogy or hagiography. There are flashes of anger and discontentedness throughout.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 18, 2018

A goldmine of small but perfectly formed parts.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 16, 2018

Stanton's navy veteran quietly dominates virtually every frame, weather-beaten as the landscape around his small American town.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 14, 2018

There is a slightly surreal feeling to it... it's a bit Twin Peaksy.... I thought it was really charming.

| Sep 14, 2018

This is a subtle, unhurried film - not sentimental in the usual sense, but studded with moments of poignant, low-key strangeness.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 13, 2018

Sounds grim but character actor John Carroll Lynch's directorial debut is a wonderful and warm meditation on mortality.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 12, 2018

Those gentle jowls, that hawkish nose, those quirky, popping eyes and the incomparable slur of that slow-jazz vocal delivery are what keep us in our seats, even when we fidget a bit.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 12, 2018

A sad, sweet movie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 12, 2018

Lucky is a profound, wry, slip of a movie carried by Stanton's moving performance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 10, 2018

John Carroll Lynch, who's worked with everyone from Martin Scorsese to Albert Brooks, doesn't explicitly borrow from any of his directors, though it's clear from his careful precision that he learned a little something from all of them.

| Dec 29, 2017

This is a movie I will see again soon.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2017

It's both subtle and deceptively simple - a great tribute to a performer who never underestimated the power of understatement.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 15, 2017

More than anything, it's a tribute to Stanton, who wore each of his 91 years in the deep crevasses on his long face, in his weathered voice and on his frail frame.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 13, 2017

You feel Lucky's frustration and gloom, how they burden him, without Stanton opening his mouth.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 12, 2017

A film comprised of first-rate actors, each given the opportunity to spin a yarn or two.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 6, 2017

Lucky us.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 6, 2017

What's a five-letter word meaning "great performance"?

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 6, 2017

Stanton, as "Lucky" reminds us, remained capable of carrying a movie even to the very end.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 5, 2017

Tracing every step of Lucky's protracted daily routine becomes a powerful exercise in both empathy and discomfort as he ponders the meaning of life and the inevitability of death, without the balm of spirituality.

| Oct 5, 2017

The movie's small, and a little too tidy, but its devotion to ritual and routine nonetheless gives the actors room to maneuver.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 5, 2017