by Vincent Leo · Published December 27, 2004 · Last modified May 16, 2019
Unlike some other critics, I didn’t go into The Life Aquatic with any expectations of greatness. I’ve only fallen asleep while watching two movies in my lifetime, and one of those movies happened to be Wes...
Acclaimed feature film director Jonathan Demme put together this fascinating documentary about one of the most popular and essential figures in Haitian politics, Jean Dominique, entitled The Agronomist, an ironic title which tells of his educational...
by Vincent Leo · Published December 22, 2004 · Last modified November 13, 2019
Reportedly made in a small amount of time for such an acclaimed film (less than two months from conception to the final cut), 3-Iron shows just how truly talented a filmmaker Kim Ki-duk can...
2000s / Adventure / Comedy / Family
by Vincent Leo · Published December 18, 2004 · Last modified November 18, 2019
As someone who has read (well, “audio-booked”) the first three entries into the Lemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler) series, “A Series of Unfortunate Events”, I could easily start this review by complaining about the...
Ernest Borgnine plays Sam Paxton, a Texas rancher who comes home one day to find his son dead and his daughter missing, and the only clue as to the perpetrator comes in the form...
Some dramas which revolve around relationships, especially with people who speak from raw emotion, make me feel like a voyeur, peeking in on private conversations and intimate moments I wouldn’t ever see otherwise. Then...
There is a reason why romantic comedies, even the most successful ones, don’t usually have sequels. Usually, this is because it’s hard to recreate magic twice, particularly when the culmination of a man and...
I’m not the first person who has compared this very derivative film to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade or in the best-selling novel, “The Da Vinci Code”, but it would be practically impossible to...
by Vincent Leo · Published November 14, 2004 · Last modified January 7, 2020
After the Sunset mixes the quirky plot of To Catch a Thief, the plucky tongue-in-cheek humor of Ocean’s Eleven, and the character-driven interactions of damn near every Elmore Leonard novel that was ever written (The Big Bounce‘s...
A heavily sentimental drama, which generally means that it will deeply affect some while missing other viewers altogether, Finding Neverland seeks to tell the tale of what inspired playwright J.M. Barrie to pen “Peter Pan”. Many...
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Film reviews from Vince Leo, from classics to new releases, since 1996.
