2020s / Action / Comedy / Superhero / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published February 17, 2020 · Last modified February 18, 2020
Birds of Prey is directed by former Wall Street Journal reporter Cathy Yan, who follows up her acclaimed indie film, Dead Pigs. The film is a spin-off from the commercially successful but critically maligned...
1980s / Comedy / Mystery / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published November 11, 2019 · Last modified February 25, 2020
Peter Sellers, who played the bumbling yet highly effective Inspector Clouseau, died on July 24, 1980, and to whom Trail of the Pink Panther, which was released 2.5 years after his death, would be dedicated....
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...
1960s / Action / Adventure / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published January 7, 2004 · Last modified February 25, 2020
For those who think that the worst of Sean Connery’s Bond adventures is still better than the best Roger Moore ever did, I hereby submit Thunderball as an end to that argument. Overlong and far...
by Vincent Leo · Published January 22, 2000 · Last modified March 17, 2019
“Mr. Madonna”, Guy Ritchie, follows up his splash debut to Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels with another wryly comic (and violent) crime piece with Snatch. Like the previous film, it features a cast of almost two...
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Film reviews from Vince Leo, from classics to new releases, since 1996.
