by Vincent Leo · Published October 12, 2003 · Last modified December 2, 2019
Although it will probably be seen as the least “Coen” of the Coen brothers’ films, Intolerable Cruelty is still unmistakably theirs. Like many of their previous films (Hudsucker Proxy, Miller’s Crossing, Barton Fink, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The...
2000s / Action / Martial Arts / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published October 10, 2003 · Last modified May 7, 2019
Coming into Kill Bill, many people will have a good deal of negative feelings stored up for the egotistical filmmaker responsible, as well as the fact that Miramax is going to make us pay twice...
School of Rock becomes the third recent feel-good comedy to come out with a musical backbone, and when you have a formula that works, it seems unlikely to be the last. So far so good,...
Sometimes it’s the casting that makes or breaks a movie, and in casting The Rock as the good guy and Christopher Walken as the bad, you’re already halfway successful to make a fun, exciting movie. ...
There are only two reasons I’m giving The Fighting Temptations a marginal recommendation: great music and it manages to succeed in what it sets out to do, leave you feeling better coming out than going in. ...
American Splendor is a movie unlike any other, taken from the pages of Harvey Pekar’s autobiographical underground comic book of the same name. The husband/wife team of Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini do a semi-documentary...
by Vincent Leo · Published September 21, 2003 · Last modified January 6, 2020
The film is called Underworld, and that’s where it belongs, as anything this perpetually derivative doesn’t deserve to see the light of day. It’s made for one type of audience: the ones who like everything...
Back in 1992, screenwriter Richard Jefferies wrote the screenplay for a little known comedy-horror atrocity called The Vagrant, which was about a man who buys a new house only to be terrorized by a local...
2000s / Action / Adventure / Fantasy
by Vincent Leo · Published September 17, 2003 · Last modified May 2, 2019
To the best of my recollection, there just hasn’t been a good pirate movie made in my lifetime, so it should be easy to guess that expectations were certainly low going into seeing Pirates of...
I’ve always found great enjoyment in the con man thrillers, usually, because they are the smartest of the suspense genre, having to be totally believable while doing some things so subtle that it would...
Reviews from film writer Vince Leo, covering all eras and genres of films from classics to the latest releases.
Film reviews from Vince Leo, from classics to new releases, since 1996.
