Update: August 18, 2017
Critics' Reviews for LOGAN LUCKY
Rotten Tomatoes: 93% Approval Rating (119 out of 128 critics like it, with a 7.5/10 average rating)
Critics Consensus: High-octane fun that's smartly assembled without putting on airs,
Logan Lucky marks a welcome end to Steven Soderbergh's retirement -- and proves he hasn't lost his ability to entertain.
Entertainment Weekly - Essentially a red-state Ocean's Eleven - a fizzy, twisty Southern-fried heist flick that's more enjoyable the less you try to dissect it.
Logan Lucky may not be the luxurious, precise Swiss watch that Soderbergh’s first (and best)
Ocean’s film was, but it’s a hell of a lot of fun to kick back and ride shotgun with.
B+
New York Daily News - “Logan Lucky” is a little long and, for all its dopey characters, sometimes too smart for its own good. But those are small problems in a slick, surprising summer entertainment from a terrific director who's having a helluva time just keeping everyone laughing, and guessing.
4.5/5
James Berardinelli - Soderbergh’s return is welcome on a number of levels, chief of which is that this adds a competent story/character-centric director to the release treadmill. Unfortunately, while
Logan Lucky is 3/4ths of a very good movie, the final half-hour becomes narratively unfocused as it strives to tie up some loose ends.
3/4
Richard Roeper - Arriving months after the release of “Logan” and weeks before the release of “Lucky,” here comes “Logan Lucky,” a breezy and clever heist romp with no relation to the other two movies, which have no relation to one another. Logan Lucky is great fun and one of the most purely entertaining movies of the year.
Rolling Stone - Soderbergh's return to features is a redneck riff on his Ocean's 11, a cool breeze of summertime sweetness that restores the good name of movie escapism. Daniel Craig is off-the-chain hilarious.
3.5/4
