Lucky Number Slevin

An innocent man visiting a friend in New York City becomes embroiled in a dangerous series of events after being mistaken for the very man he has come to the city to see in director Paul McGuigan's labyrinthine murder mystery. Upon arriving at the empty apartment of his old friend Nick, the ...more

Lucky Number Slevin is about mistaken identity, but as a movie, it’s pretty slippery to pin down as well. Paul McGuigan’s film starts off like a jokey, self-satisfied cousin of Get Shorty: Every mob boss is a pop culture poet philosopher, every thug is a gifted wordsmith, and every character dissects and analyzes the semantic irony in his or her dialogue, until eyeballs are rolling all over the theater. Purported cleverness hasn’t felt this self-conscious in years, and when Jason Smilovic writes ...more