Captain Marvel (2019)
The longtime indie-drama team of Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden take the reins of their first blockbuster film (after Marvel passed on the likes of female directors like Niki Caro and Jennifer Kent), handling...
The longtime indie-drama team of Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden take the reins of their first blockbuster film (after Marvel passed on the likes of female directors like Niki Caro and Jennifer Kent), handling...
2010s / Action / Comedy / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published April 22, 2017 · Last modified August 7, 2018
The premise of Free Fire is high concept, so much so that some people will immediately like the film just for that concept alone, regardless of whether it actually makes for a compelling way to tell...
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / War
by Vincent Leo · Published March 11, 2017 · Last modified July 13, 2018
A quintessential popcorn flick, Kong: Skull Island doesn’t try to go deep with important themes or get entrenched in lots of set-up or explanation, built on the premise that audiences want lots of action and humor...
Room is the kind of movie that makes me wish I had never seen the trailer, as I feel there are entirely too many key story moments revealed within it that lessen a good deal...
Comedian Amy Schumer gets her chance to shine on the big screen with Trainwreck, playing, appropriately, Amy, working by day as a journalist at a men’s lifestyle and celebrity gossip publication, but who drinks hard,...
2010s / Action / Comedy / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published June 4, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2019
The thought of yet another classic TV show being remade as a modern-day spoof doesn’t exactly fill a savvy moviegoer with delight, as most have been misfires that missed the mark by making little...
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.