This is a comic misadventure if ever there was one, and the filmmakers are fully aware of it. The plot is a hugely absurd one, and the film is joyfully proud of it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2024

A cock-eyed caper in the Coen brothers' mould, this feature debut from writer/director Sasie Sealy is a slight but mischievous delight.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 9, 2024

Lucky Grandma serves as a showcase for the side-splitting acting skills of star Tsai Chin first and foremost, amusing audiences around the world.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 1, 2022

I'll take a chain-smoking cynical octogenarian over capped teeth and muscles any day. Here is heroism we can all achieve.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 15, 2022

Light enough to entertain but dark enough to keep you interested, Tsai Chins stern glare will etch itself into your heart as she brings some laughs to a gloomy year.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 26, 2022

The film's characters and their interactions always feel authentic, as does Grandma's eventual understanding that it's OK if your good luck comes in the form of friends and family, rather than cold, hard cash.

| Nov 3, 2021

The exhuberant vitality of Lucky Grandma is a delight, with a wonderfully droll performance by Tsai Chin.

| Nov 3, 2021

Filmmaker Sasie Sealy's Lucky Grandma is a darkly comedic drama and unexpectedly poignant action/thriller romp.

| Nov 3, 2021

Lucky Grandma is as delightful as it is weird. It's also a celebration of cranky chain-smoking grandmas everywhere.

| Nov 3, 2021

The fact that Lucky Grandma not only features an all-Asian cast but stars a tough-as-nails octogenarian makes it an even bigger win.

| Nov 3, 2021

Sasie Sealy's darkly comic action/adventure drama Lucky Grandma focuses New York's Chinatown and Grandma Wong, played with irresistible, irascible charm by Tsai Chin.

| Nov 3, 2021

The film has enough fun to offer anyone who enjoys seeing old women behaving disgracefully, and as a debut it underlines Sasie Sealy as a talented and promising director

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 5, 2021

Crime drama with a layer of melancholic comedy, Lucky Grandma is a rich and warm slice of Chinatown life, that shows the risks of fighting against the changing seasons of life.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 18, 2021

With a relatively simple script of escalating obstacles by Sealy and co-writer Angela Cheng, Lucky Grandma has fun with its concept without overstaying its welcome.

| Original Score: 78/100 | Feb 15, 2021

In this incandescent and utterly delightful debut, director Sasie Sealy delivers a sparkling movie that centers the story of an elderly woman of color with the agency, care, and attention it deserves.

| Feb 15, 2021

She and she alone makes the movie worth your time.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 15, 2021

There is nothing quite like Lucky Grandma and hopefully, this will open the flood gates to more outside of the box storytelling.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 12, 2020

Lucky Grandma's combination of genre fundamentals and refreshing reconfiguration make it an inspired and worthy comic noir.

| Nov 11, 2020

Lucky Grandma has all the hallmarks of an old-school cult favourite.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 11, 2020

Writer-director Sasie Sealy's feature debut, co-written with Angela Cheng, is an extremely confident and wildly humorous calling card, enhanced immeasurably by a gloriously grumpy Tsai Chin in the title role.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 9, 2020