2010s / Comedy / Drama / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published January 21, 2018 · Last modified July 4, 2018
Frances McDormand (The Good Dinosaur, Transformers: Dark of the Moon) plays Mildred Hayes, a financially strapped grieving mother who decides to rent, after selling her ex-husband’s tractor, the use of the titular three mostly dormant...
Set in Sacramento, California, in the year 2002, Lady Bird follows all-girls Catholic private school senior Christine McPherson, who lists among her vast array of idiosyncrasies, that she would no longer be called ‘Christine’, but “Lady...
Set in May, 1940, we see an anxious United Kingdom worried about the impending rise of Nazi Germany, under the command of Adolf Hitler. Out goes Neville Chamberlain (Pickup, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel),...
2010s / Comedy / Drama / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published October 6, 2017 · Last modified August 1, 2018
Bouncing back from his prior fiasco, The Mummy, Tom Cruise (Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation) gets to use his effervescent charm to good effect in American Made, a slick and entertaining production based...
by Vincent Leo · Published September 27, 2017 · Last modified August 1, 2018
Director Kathryn Bigelow, collaborating with favorite screenwriter Mark Boal (who penned her The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, takes on the challenge of crafting a drama based on the true events of one particular tragedy that occurred...
Japanese broken family drama specialist, Hirokazu Koreeda, returns with another delicate gem, After the Storm, which continues his string of modest but telling stories that revolve around how families mold us, but also how our selfish...
Kyle Mooney (Zoolander 2, Hello My Name is Doris) co-writes and stars in this comic tale of a man-child named James who grows up in an extremely sheltered existence in a remote bunker in Utah,...
Director Steven Soderbergh (Haywire, Ocean’s Thirteen) continues to expand his horizons by taking on the world of male strippers, something that is always tantalizing, and yet rarely has gotten big-screen treatment from Hollywood in the...
2010s / Comedy / Drama / Romance / War
by Vincent Leo · Published May 1, 2017 · Last modified July 17, 2018
Set in 1940, around the time of the London Blitz during World War II, Their Finest stars Gemma Arterton (The Girl with All the Gifts, Gemma Bovery) as Catrin Cole, a fledgling screenwriter from Wales who has...
Set in small-town Florida, Chris Evans (Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Age of Ultron) stars as Frank Adler, the uncle and sole guardian of his late sister’s seven-year-old daughter, Mary (Grace, Independence Day: Resurgence), who he...
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.
