Lucy

When a boyfriend tricks Lucy (Scarlett Johansson) into delivering a briefcase to a supposed business contact, the once-carefree student is abducted by thugs who intend to turn her into a drug mule. She is surgically implanted with a package containing a powerful chemical, but it leaks into her system, giving her superhuman abilities, including telekinesis and telepathy. With her former captors in pursuit, Lucy seeks out a neurologist (Morgan Freeman), who she hopes will be able to help her.

Critic Reviews:

• " It's a film that takes great delight in her essentially co-opting a long series of tropes and storylines typically reserved for men in stories of this type, which is an old trope in the feminist action movie wheelhouse. " – Emily VanDerWerff

• " let it grab you by the noodle and zap you into its whacked-out vision of human existence. You'll feel much better for it, I promise. " – David Sims

• " Say what you will about ‘Lucy,’ which is an absurdly silly and sometimes aggressively stupid movie, but it's at least interested in showing us something new. " – Jason Bailey