The Lucky Ones

This is more than the story of soldiers grappling with stress and doubt as they reenter the "normal" flow of domestic life. It's about strangers bonding, about friendship and discovery, about the comedy and tragedy of the human experience.Read Full Review »

This formula is fraught with pitfalls, but the characters and the actors redeem it with a surprising emotional impact.Read Full Review »

Because the lead actors work so well together, adding depth and levels of vulnerability to fairly underwritten roles, the emotional consequences of the sense of displacement these "lucky" characters -- lucky to be alive, lucky to have met one another -- must deal with always ring true.Read Full Review »

The Lucky Ones isn't dull, and the actors do quite nicely, especially McAdams, who's feisty, gorgeous, and as mercurial as a mood ring.Read Full Review »

As close as a movie about three Iraq war soldiers should come to mediocre TV comedy.Read Full Review »

Though the lead performances are uniformly good, the film seems hazy in its focus from the start. Many of the scenes seem to simply meander.Read Full Review »

The weakest aspect of The Lucky Ones is by far the conclusion, which is flat and contrived.Read Full Review »

Its hopelessly schematic road-trip arc (bond-fight-reconcile-repeat) grows increasingly tedious.Read Full Review »

Could be filed under "wacky misfire."Read Full Review »