Movie review: Scarlett Johansson jacks up her brain power in ‘Lucy’

Posted July 25, 2014 2:08 pm.

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Scarlett Johansson stars in a heady sci-fi action thriller from the writer/director of The Fifth Element and La Femme Nikita. Film critic Leslie James gets a pleasant charge out of Lucy.

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