Louis J. "Lou" Lumenick (born September 11, 1949) is an American film critic. He is the chief film critic and a blogger for the New York Post and has reviewed films there since 1999.
Lumenick was born and raised in Astoria, Queens. He attended City College of New York (CCNY) and took filmmaking courses at The New School.
Lumenick previously worked at The Hartford Times, a defunct newspaper in Connecticut, and the The Record in New Jersey, reviewing films over a nine-year span for the latter.[1] He was metropolitan editor at the Post before taking the film reviewer position. Lumenick has been involved in controversies with director James Toback[2] and with film critic Roger Ebert.[3]
In 2007 he was inducted into the CCNY Communications Hall of Fame.[4] He is a member of the New York Film Critics Circle. Lumenick and Farran Smith Nehme, who blogs as The Self-Styled Siren,[5] conceived and created "Shadows of Russia," a 20-film series that aired in January, 2010, on Turner Classic Movies.[6] He also appeared as an on-air TCM guest programmer on October 2010 as part of the Critic's Choice film series, introducing "The Last Flight" and "All Through the Night" with Robert Osborne.