 "The Lookout" received critical acclaim.The film has earned an aggregated score of 87% at Rotten Tomatoes (167 reviews), with the critical consensus "The Lookout is a genuinely suspenseful and affecting noir due to the great ensemble cast and their complex, realistic characters," a 73/100 at Metacritic (33 reviews), and "B" at Yahoo Movies (13 reviews).Particularly favorable reviews came from Richard Roeper and Leonard Maltin, who praised the film as "the best movie so far" of the first half of 2007.