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

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

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

But Lucky You would be distinctly better if it were shorter in length and clearer about the rules of the game. Its idea that gamblers carry on much the same in life as they do at the tables is hardly original enough to sustain the whole film.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 22, 2007

The beats here aren't bad, they're just slow, slight and rather predictable.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 22, 2007

Gamble on the movie, by all means: it has its low-key pleasures. But perhaps safer to fold, and hope Hanson deals us an ace again soon.

| Jun 22, 2007

In the past, poker-playing in the movies was likely to be something exciting but dangerous, not something to be dwelt on technically, and analogous to other criminal and self-destructive activities in the storyline.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 22, 2007

Though Curtis Hanson captures the savage swings from high to low, he fails to when it comes to the addictive quality of poker

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 22, 2007

While fans of Eric Bana may get a kick out of his meaty, manly performance, Drew Barrymore is a huge mistake.

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

No way to make poker cinematic.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 22, 2007

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.

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

Lucky You is hardly Mr. Hanson's strongest effort, but it does contain many of his saving graces: a warm regard for his characters, an unhurried pace for his narrative and a grown-up sense of morality.

Full Review | May 16, 2007

In between hands, [Bana] speaks in inspirational poker platitudes that would make a fortune-cookie distributor blush.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 11, 2007

Feels like Showgirls without the tits or dancing.

| Original Score: 2/6 | May 10, 2007

It's a ponderous, anemic bore about how to play poker that exploits the trendy gambling fever that is all the rage on the Internet and cable 온라인카지노추천, but doesn't have enough energy to keep the most catatonic tournament-poker addict awake.

Full Review | May 9, 2007

Most of Lucky You, starting with the title, is ordinary or outright awful. Moviemakers, it seems, cannot bluff their way to success.

| May 7, 2007

Even if you think you know where Lucky You is headed, there's something pleasurable about watching it unfold.

Full Review | May 4, 2007

Dispassionate and dull despite some strong performances, Lucky You just feels played out.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 4, 2007

Made a couple of years ago, Curtis Hanson's Oedipally fraught Vegas dud is only now being unceremoniously dumped for what will certainly be a heartbeat of theatrical life.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 4, 2007

A solid, well-made, generally gripping and intelligent movie.

| May 4, 2007