This is a different kind of street-gang picture, one that improves your vocabulary even as it teaches fatally bad study habits.
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04/10/03
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Better Luck Tomorrow (2003)
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Reviews Counted:95
Fresh:76
Rotten:19
Average Rating:7/10
Consensus: A promising work by Lin, the energetic Better Luck Tomorrow is disturbing and thought-provoking.
Theatrical Release:Apr 11, 2003 Limited
Box Office: $3,687,324
Synopsis: Everyone knows a person like Ben - the perfect Asian American high school teen - extremely intelligent, a perfectionist, overachiever whose tunnel vision leads to nothing less than graduating at... [More]
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Reviews for Better Luck Tomorrow
Top CriticLike Go meets Boyz N the Hood, this good-teen- gone-bad thriller crackles with wicked authenticity.
04/10/03
Though Better Luck Tomorrow is the work of an intriguing new talent, there remains something amiss about a movie so desperate to legitimize its own daring.
04/10/03
Being simultaneously proud of and embarrassed by one's scholarly perfectionism is a trait I find particularly identifiable to young, male Asian-Americans. Better Luck Tomorrow draws on this trait for its strength.
04/10/03
It's a long way from Long Duk Dong.
04/09/03
Top CriticIf 'Tomorrow' has the feel of an afterschool special, it's a surprisingly good one.
04/09/03
The story gets as melodramatic as anything in Amy Tan.
04/08/03
[A] piercing portrayal of American teenagers who are for the most part good-looking, smart, funny -- and almost completely lacking in morals.
04/07/03
Top CriticBetter Luck Tomorrow is an inventively delivered cautionary tale about some smart and upwardly mobile Asian high school students who, bored with their lives, embark on a course of violence and self-destructiveness.
04/03/03
It tries to stuff in so many different subjects and genres that you'll stop caring about what start off to be interesting characters.
04/02/03
A vibrant film which follows a trajectory yet somehow surprises at every turn.
03/31/03
What began as vibrantly original devolves into something suspiciously Tarantino-like, strained through the hollow nihilism of Bret Easton Ellis.
03/22/03
Smartly photographed and edited, it manages to walk the difficult tightrope strung between the typically loopy coming of age film and a simmering disaster in the making.
12/08/02
All too Caucasian in its tired devotion to the bloody, boneheaded tropes of Quentin Tarantino and Bret Easton Ellis.
10/02/02
There's something refreshing about the violation of ethnic stereotypes, especially when the stereotype is politically correct and the violation is more than a simple counterstereotype.
04/07/02
Top CriticProvides both a searing satire of modern suburbia and provocative insight into the malignant maturation of generally well-meaning and privileged kids.
02/13/02
It is amusing and entertaining, and more than a little thought-provoking.
02/13/02
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