| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Don't bet on Barrymore's lackluster poker rom-com.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 18, 2010

Curtis Hanson's film concerns itself with wage-makers' addictive pathological itch, desperate hustles and poker's cult of very strange personalities. Its most striking "Tin Cup" kinship: Vindication and victory don't always arrive together.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 19, 2010

Hanson and Roth shuffle the two sides of the movie, the poker tournament and the love affair, with a Howard Hawksian feel for casual professionalism.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 10, 2008

Since Lucky You overdid the poker cliches to death, let me end with one of my favorites: 'You got to know when to hold'em, know when to fold'em.' It seems this film never learned that lesson.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Mar 3, 2008

Better to fold 'em than to spend time watching Eric Bana and Drew Barrymore go literally nowhere.

| Original Score: C- | Jan 4, 2008

Personally, I think this is one of those misunderstood films that never got a fair shake. DVD often corrects such oversights, and my hope is that Lucky You will finally find the appreciative audience it deserves.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 28, 2007

Lucky You undoes what Rounders did right.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 21, 2007

...a well-intentioned romantic-gambling film that misses the mark by providing little we haven't seen before and better.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Sep 16, 2007

As soon as it has to face the real world, and deal with "emotions," it goes completely slack.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Sep 14, 2007

...everything about the movie is a little out-of-it, and not just because it's been lying on the studio shelf for a couple of years.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Jul 10, 2007

It is amazing how safe Hanson and company play it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 30, 2007

Gambling and love rarely mix.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 30, 2007

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 30, 2007

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 30, 2007

The end result is a movie that would have been better off eschewing its comedic aspirations in order to tell a serious story, which Hanson and Duvall have more than proven they're capable of.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 30, 2007

It's a shame that Barrymore's scenes are such a washout because the rest of the film is perfectly fine.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 30, 2007

Can't decide whether it's a cautionary tale about gambling, a weepy father-son drama or a breezy rom-com.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 30, 2007

Lucky You is a decent and often engaging character study that deserved more respect from critics and the studio than it received.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 22, 2007