Review of Better Luck Tomorrow (2003) by Kimberly E — 06 Nov 2010

Funny, witty, and extremely quoteable coming of age story about a group of asians getting ready to graduate high school.

This review of Better Luck Tomorrow (2003) was written by Kimberly E on 06 Nov 2010.

Better Luck Tomorrow has generally received positive reviews.

Was this review helpful?

Yes

More reviews of this movie:

More Reviews of Better Luck Tomorrow

Review of Better Luck Tomorrow (2003)

By David Ansen (1,073) for Newsweek (1,534) on 06 Mar 2018

Lin's movie tries to do too much--it takes some dark, credibility-defying turns--but you come away knowing you've witnessed the birth of a…

Read Review

Review of Better Luck Tomorrow (2003)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 03 Jan 2014

Perhaps the worst thing that could be said about Better Luck Tomorrow is that, on a slow night, it's easy to imagine these delinquents wanting…

Read Review

Review of Better Luck Tomorrow (2003)

By Jesse V (78) on 04 Sep 2011

Oh, I just really liked this! There's something very David Lynch about it, and something noirish, too…

Read Review

Review of Better Luck Tomorrow (2003)

By Daniel G (1,520) on 28 Apr 2011

The social drives and dyamics are so well narrated and presented I thought(at the time) of justin lin as some kind of nu-gen robert altman…

Read Review

Review of Better Luck Tomorrow (2003)

By Chris S (3,490) on 13 Dec 2010

A well written and directed crime thriller owing a nod to Scorsese and movies like Kids and The Basketball Diaries…

Read Review

Review of Better Luck Tomorrow (2003)

By Stevan L (32) on 20 Aug 2009

Better Luck Tomorrow is a movie that I have a lot of time for…

Read Review

Review of Better Luck Tomorrow (2003)

By David K (1,644) on 29 Nov 2011

So slick and dark...and they're asian americans…

Read Review

Review of Better Luck Tomorrow (2003)

By Howie V (37) on 22 Feb 2011

Pretty foolish for a bunch of smart kids…

Read Review

Review of Better Luck Tomorrow (2003)

By Ben Nuckols (5) for Associated Press (1,685) on 01 Apr 2013

Better Luck Tomorrow, a corrosive, insightful study of the pressure-packed lives of suburban high school students, brings a new variant to…

Read Review

Review of Better Luck Tomorrow (2003)

By Ripö M (410) on 24 Feb 2010

What's amazing is that we finally have a movie where we give Asian American actors better roles compared to just continuing casting them as…

Read Review

More reviews of this movie

Reviews of Similar Movies

Review of My Bodyguard (1980)

By Brian P (1,844) on 31 May 2014

This Film Just Came Out 34 Years Old Back In 1980…

Read Review

Review of Liberty Heights (1999)

By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 10 Mar 2008

Told from too many perspectives, the narrative puts suspense above substance, and its social consciousness seems contrived…

Read Review

Review of 4 Minute Mile (2014)

By Brendan D (119) on 07 Sep 2017

If you were or are a high school runner, college runner, or were ever at any point even a slightly competitive (or self-respecting) runner,…

Read Review

Review of Just One of the Guys (1985)

By Skip M (40) on 13 Jul 2014

Saw the end, don't need to see the whole thing…

Read Review

Review of Teen Witch (1989)

By Homersimpson12 (4) on 26 Sep 2016

Given the grosses of the original, a sequel to Teen Wolf was inevitable-and it was inevitable, too, that the sequel would lose the quality…

Read Review

Review of Get Real (1998)

By Ilana Lindsey (5) for Film Threat (5,156) on 06 Dec 2005

The rather unoriginal script, co-written by Shore and Patrick Wilde (who wrote the stage play upon which the film is based), has roughly an…

Read Review

Review of Looking for Alibrandi (2000)

By John M (4,356) on 29 Jun 2009

Boring movie about a retard who sees things that aren't there. you think its nearly over and it just keeps going…

Read Review

Review of All Things Fair (1995)

By Xain R (37) on 17 Sep 2013

A coming-of-age story from Sweden. I guess I would like it more if I had watched it decades back…

Read Review

Review of Sidekicks (1992)

By Jeremy S (1,980) on 13 Jun 2010

A HORRIBLE movie but one to watch for laughs....when you're not supposed to be laughing…

Read Review

Review of The Great Santini (1979)

By Jibajabber (2) on 12 Jan 2021

Worst movie I've ever seen The problem with it is basically nothing happens…

Read Review

More Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

Parasite

2019

87%251 Reviews

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

2023

85%233 Reviews

Fifty Shades of Grey

2015

43%1,173 Reviews

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

2017

69%660 Reviews

Terrifier 2

2022

64%48 Reviews

Three Thousand Years of Longing

2022

65%84 Reviews

The Prodigy

2019

53%39 Reviews

Hillbilly Elegy

2020

61%141 Reviews

Talk to Me

2023

74%83 Reviews

Upgrade

2018

76%696 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

Better Luck Tomorrow

2003

70%292 Reviews

The Hustler

1961

84%587 Reviews

Robin Hood

2009

60%573 Reviews

Far Side of the Moon

2003

75%35 Reviews

Winchester

2018

43%374 Reviews

Kikujiro

1999

74%319 Reviews

Passion Fish

1992

74%61 Reviews

Because of Winn-Dixie

2005

63%410 Reviews

Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys

2008

64%485 Reviews

Spaceship

1983

33%8 Reviews