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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 80
    Wall Street Journal | Joe Morgenstern

    A minor comedy, though a major delight. Read full review

  • 80
    Washington Post | Michael O'Sullivan

    Apart from the deja vu all over again, Lucky Break is no worse a film than "Breaking Out," and "Breaking Out" was utterly charming. Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    There is not much here that comes as a blinding plot revelation, but the movie has a raffish charm and good-hearted characters, and like "The Full Monty" it makes good use of the desperation beneath the comedy. Read full review

  • 70
    Washington Post |

    It's what the Brits themselves might call fair to middling. Read full review

  • 60
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

    Lightly reflective and consistently entertaining, Lucky Break is an easy-to-take diversion. Read full review

  • 50
    Boston Globe | Loren King

    The movie moves predictably to its formulaic finale, which -- unwittingly perhaps -- reprises Plummer's own sugary classic, ''The Sound of Music.'' Read full review

  • 50
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    Pleasing but routine British comedy. Read full review

  • 33
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Every porridgy inmate in this instantly forgettable romp warbles in the prison's amateur musical, and one of them demonstrates a rather extreme devotion to the tomatoes he grows in the on-site greenhouse. Read full review

  • 30
    The New York Times | Dave Kehr

    Mr. Cattaneo restricts himself to the smiling blandness that has become the stock in trade of British comedies made for export, turning in a film that is forced, familiar and thoroughly condescending. Read full review

  • 30
    Variety | Derek Elley

    Chained to the floor by a script that isn't particularly funny, direction that goes for realism rather than stylization and an almost complete lack of comic timing. Read full review

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