After a brief prehistoric flashback to the dawn of man, the film quickly deposits us in present-day Taipei, where Lucy (Johansson), a hard-partying American blonde, finds herself lured into the ...

She plays Lucy, an American in Taipei who gets thrust into the role of drug mule during a nail-biting opening sequence that generates a tension the rest of the film never matches.

Movies 'Lucy' movie review: Scarlett Johannson strong but sci-fi is weak in silly thriller Published: Jul. 25, 2014, 10:00 a.m.

Scarlett Johansson, as the title character Lucy, is able to do all of that and more, after she’s abducted, knocked out and wakes up with a bag of something called CPH4 surgically implanted in ...

Lucy (2014) Film Review, a movie directed by Luc Besson, starring Scarlett Johansson, Claire Tran, Frédéric Chau, Jan Oliver Schroeder, Morgan Freeman, Amr ...

The movies themselves, however, couldn’t be more different. “Her” pushed us to expand our minds, while “Lucy” works best if we switch them off entirely.

Lucy’s a woman in a very male-dominated industry who earns the right to travel beyond the confines of Earth, so it makes sense that she can’t even articulate what she’s feeling.

Lucy (Scarlett Johansson) is a freewheeling expat American in Taiwan, blowing off her studies for nightclub carousing, until the day her boyfriend handcuffs a briefcase to her arm and sends her to ...

THR review: Natalie Portman plays an astronaut struggling to adjust to life back on Earth in Noah Hawley's big-screen directorial debut, 'Lucy in the Sky.

Among the film’s most piercing details is Carter’s memory of Lucy’s farewell hug, a gesture that was intense with feeling and, crucially, initiated by the chimp.