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Luke Y. Thompson

Agrees with the Tomatometer 65% of the time.

Biography:: First published at the age of 10 when one of his poems was printed in a children's book in Ireland, Luke Y. Thompson had been an unofficial film critic for friends and family for many years before writing for the zines AteBall and his own KnifEdge, the latter of which caught the attention of the editors at the Los Angeles New Times, who were looking for a fresh perspective. Initially syndicated throughout all the New Times publications, his audience expanded with the merger of New Times and Village Voice, causing a few New York readers to get slightly upset. LYT has a degree in film production from USC, an L.A. Press Club Award for work done at the old New Times Los Angeles, and an honorable mention award for his online blog. But what he really wants to do is direct. And act (his most notable credit thus far was in Gregory Hatanaka's MAD COWGIRL, which he also assistant-directed). And rule the world. Luke is a shameless self promoter, as anyone who's seen his website, lytrules.com, can attest, especially if they bought one of his T-shirts (or rather, LYT-shirts) while there.
Favorites:: 2001 (and all things Kubrick), Wings (1922), Flash Gordon (1980), Citizen Kane, Eraserhead, Beetlejuice, Robocop, Gone With the Wind, Carnival of Souls, Lost Highway, The Empire Strikes Back (NON special edition only), The Crow, Fight Club, Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam, The Room.
Publications:: Anchorage Press , Dallas Observer , E! Online , Geekweek , Houston Press , L.A. Weekly , Los Angeles CityBeat , LYTRules.com , Nerdist , New Times , OC Weekly , Village Voice
Critics' Group:: Los Angeles Film Critics Association

Total Reviews:: 1668
Total QuickRatings:: 439

Location:: Hollywood, CA

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	66%	The Dictator (2012)	" Perhaps the best analog for this dictator is someone like Eric Cartman - you'd never want to know him, but you can't stop laughing anyhow, and occasionally root for him despite your better impulses." — Nerdist Posted May 16, 2012
	93%	Marvel's The Avengers (2012)	" The term "geekgasm" does not go amiss here." — Nerdist Posted May 1, 2012
	43%	American Reunion (2012)	" The American Pie franchise is the only one I can think of that...actually gets better every single time. In large part this is due to it not being all that much to start with." — Nerdist Posted Apr 6, 2012
	50%	Mirror Mirror (2012)	" Best to approach Mirror Mirror like a waking dream. The story doesn't make much sense, but the visual cues meld into one another with the finesse of a painter blending his colors." — Nerdist Posted Mar 30, 2012
	84%	The Hunger Games (2012)	" ...turns out to be a pleasing mix of throwback sci-fi and modern cultural critique." — Nerdist Posted Mar 20, 2012
	77%	Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2012)	" The good-naturedness of the humor tided me over just fine, but should you pay for a big-screen viewing? Unless you love close-ups of the streets of Baton Rouge, DVD or cable will be fine. " — Houston Press Posted Mar 16, 2012
A-	52%	John Carter (2012)	" There's material here to sustain a solid franchise if the demand is there." — E! Online Posted Mar 9, 2012
	52%	John Carter (2012)	" John Carter is a science-fiction epic worth cheering, one where however much they spent, it all went to throw amazingly huge and awesome things onscreen in the service of a story that some are actually calling too complicated." — Nerdist Posted Mar 9, 2012
	26%	Project X (2012)	" Considering the price of movie tickets these days, it's hard to justify recommending this over a Girls Gone Wild video for approximately the same content." — Nerdist Posted Mar 2, 2012
B-	29%	The Vow (2012)	" Not everything in it works, but the lack of reliance on easy answers earns it enough credibility points for a passing grade." — E! Online Posted Feb 10, 2012
A-	42%	Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)	" Grown-ups and reviewers aren't supposed to like movies that are almost entirely CG and PG-rated eye candy, but screw it. The inner child wins out on this one." — E! Online Posted Feb 10, 2012
C-	47%	Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2012)	" Rapidly becomes tiresome." — E! Online Posted Jan 19, 2012
C+	51%	Contraband (2012)	" Contraband makes for a fun flick at first, until a nasty -- and tonally inconsistent -- misogynistic streak kills the joy." — E! Online Posted Jan 12, 2012
B+	98%	The Artist (2011)	" It's not especially deep or profound -- just (very) good old-fashioned fun." — E! Online Posted Dec 22, 2011
B+	75%	The Adventures of Tintin (2011)	" This Tintin is a fun, zippy adventure well under two hours, and Serkis' Haddock is a marvel." — E! Online Posted Dec 20, 2011
B-	87%	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)	" Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara are fine in the leads, but when it comes to the actual plot, one does get the feeling that it didn't need to be told again. Newcomers to the story may disagree." — E! Online Posted Dec 19, 2011
	100%	Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone (2011)	" It's a much more interesting story than your usual Behind the Music arc." — Geekweek Posted Dec 16, 2011
A-	93%	Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011)	" Back when Cruise just seemed like a generic, smiling, handsome guy, Ethan was dull. Now that he comes off in public appearances as slightly crazed and reckless, we project that onto the character too; and it's for the better." — E! Online Posted Dec 16, 2011
B	60%	Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)	" If you want a Victorian-era Lethal Weapon, this Game plays well and its leads are charming." — E! Online Posted Dec 15, 2011
C	23%	The Sitter (2011)	" Like Green's other comedies, The Sitter frequently feels like it should be hilarious, but never quite is." — E! Online Posted Dec 8, 2011
A	94%	Hugo (2011)	" Can we take back the Oscar for The Departed and give it to Hugo instead?" — E! Online Posted Nov 22, 2011
B	26%	Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011)	" Condon pulls it off about as well as anybody could." — E! Online Posted Nov 17, 2011
B+	68%	Tower Heist (2011)	" This ensemble comedy headed up by Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy is an entertaining yarn with at least one solidly suspenseful sequence you'll remember." — E! Online Posted Nov 4, 2011
B	50%	The Rum Diary (2011)	" It's a sort of unofficial prequel to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, more likely to appeal to college students drunkenly completing their writing assignments than lusty ladies with a navy jones." — E! Online Posted Oct 27, 2011
C-	26%	The Three Musketeers (2011)	" It's all for nothing, nothing much for all." — E! Online Posted Oct 21, 2011
C	36%	The Thing (2011)	" Like the creature of the title, it offers us a juiced-up but inadequate copy." — E! Online Posted Oct 13, 2011
D+	6%	Dream House (2011)	" So misbegotten and awkward that one has to assume there was some serious after-the-fact tampering by a committee of lunatics." — E! Online Posted Sep 30, 2011
C+	95%	Moneyball (2011)	" The entertaining banter between Pitt and Jonah Hill isn't quite enough to make such an insular world compelling." — E! Online Posted Sep 23, 2011
A	93%	Drive (2011)	" It's fascinating how the simple act of eliminating a lead character's back story can make a movie 100 percent better, at least in this case." — E! Online Posted Sep 15, 2011
C-	83%	Warrior (2011)	" It's great that a Hollywood movie finally takes mixed martial arts seriously as a sport, but unfortunate that it had to be this one." — E! Online Posted Sep 8, 2011
B+	25%	Apollo 18 (2011)	" Suffice it to say that the suspense works, and the obligatory sequel hook genuinely intrigues us with its possibilities rather than merely threatening a retread." — E! Online Posted Sep 2, 2011
B+	59%	Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark (2011)	" While not as instantly white-knuckle scary as one might hope, director Troy Nixey's monsters deliver a creepiness that lingers in the mind." — E! Online Posted Aug 25, 2011
B-	23%	Conan the Barbarian (2011)	" It may be ridiculous as all get-out, but the fact that the exaggeration is so irony free is charming in its own way." — E! Online Posted Aug 19, 2011
B-	60%	Final Destination 5 (2011)	" It's now all strictly about the elaborate kills, and the associated red herrings. If you know and dig this, you'll have a blast." — E! Online Posted Aug 11, 2011
B+	83%	Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)	" A surprisingly nasty (in a good way) franchise reboot that comes closer than any prior POTA film to being a full-on horror movie." — E! Online Posted Aug 5, 2011
C-	44%	Cowboys & Aliens (2011)	" A handful of good scenes do not a great movie make." — E! Online Posted Jul 28, 2011
D+	23%	The Smurfs (2011)	" It's a Smurfs movie. What did you expect?" — E! Online Posted Jul 28, 2011
B+	91%	Winnie the Pooh (2011)	" It's trickier than it looks to make a movie that offends absolutely nobody, but Winnie the Pooh is as close as it gets." — E! Online Posted Jul 14, 2011
A-	96%	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (2011)	" The grand finale of the Harry Potter saga brings narrative and emotional closure by finally delivering the grand confrontation all the previous films were building toward." — E! Online Posted Jul 14, 2011
B+	35%	Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)	" All the action stuff is suitably epic and has seemingly been staged with criticisms of the other movies in mind." — E! Online Posted Jun 29, 2011
B+	44%	Bad Teacher (2011)	" Viewers sick of being force-fed inspirational lessons who are looking to mentally flip the bird at authority, this will hit the spot." — E! Online Posted Jun 23, 2011
C	82%	Super 8 (2011)	" Abrams' muddled tribute to '80s Spielberg does indeed feature well-rounded human beings, but mostly forgets to put them in an interesting story." — E! Online Posted Jun 9, 2011
A-	87%	X-Men: First Class (2011)	" The prequel none of us thought we wanted turns out to be more of a fun time than anybody expected." — E! Online Posted Jun 2, 2011
A-	85%	The Tree of Life (2011)	" If you can let yourself go with the flow it's pretty awe-inspiring at times, and sure to be Oscar-nominated." — E! Online Posted May 26, 2011
B+	81%	Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)	" Remains a genuinely good martial arts movie, with some of the year's best fight sequences, and inarguably the best use of 3-D in a long time." — E! Online Posted May 26, 2011
B	34%	Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)	" There's enough of Jack doing his wild hand gestures and lucking his way into the story that Depp fans will dig it. These Stranger Tides lead to a shallow pool, but sometimes a nice wading session might be all you require." — E! Online Posted May 19, 2011
F	54%	Jumping the Broom (2011)	" Politicians concerned about the sanctity of marriage should consider trying to boycott this film, lest impressionable youngsters watch and be led to believe that all weddings are as awful, soulless and interminable as what's onscreen." — E! Online Posted May 6, 2011
A-	77%	Thor (2011)	" Expanding the cinematic Marvel-verse in stranger ways than the casual viewer might expect, it sets the stage for a larger storyline while still delivering a heroic tale for old-school comic readers." — E! Online Posted May 5, 2011
D+	78%	Fast Five (2011)	" Featuring a mere two car-chase sequences and a pointlessly padded run time, it's an unfortunate low point after Fast and Furious (aka part four) appeared to return things to fine form." — E! Online Posted Apr 28, 2011

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