Star Wars: Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker
The Rise of Skywalker is a bit like the final season of “Game of Thrones”: it restlessly tries to tie up all of its loose ends in its finale without allowing for the proper...
The Rise of Skywalker is a bit like the final season of “Game of Thrones”: it restlessly tries to tie up all of its loose ends in its finale without allowing for the proper...
2010s / Action / Fantasy / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published December 21, 2017 · Last modified July 13, 2018
Rian Johnson (Looper, The Brothers Bloom) takes over the reigns of the venerable franchise for one film in between the two helmed by J.J. Abrams and crafts a successful outing, continuing from the last moment...
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...
2010s / Adventure / Drama / Thriller / Western
by Vincent Leo · Published December 21, 2015 · Last modified July 26, 2018
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning film Birdman sees him go for a Western adventure of the most potent variety in The Revenant, a grueling tale of bloody revenge set in the wilderness of (presumably) the...
2010s / Action / Fantasy / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published December 18, 2015 · Last modified July 4, 2018
J.J. Abrams (Star Trek, Into Darkness) strips away the lumbering effect of the Star Wars prequels and gets back to the golly-gee-whiz action-fantasy we’ve all come to know and love from the original Star Wars (aka A New Hope), and while...
2010s / Drama / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published April 25, 2015 · Last modified August 1, 2018
Esteemed screenwriter Alex Garland (Dredd, Sunshine) writes and directs (his first) this fascinating science fiction drama, which plays like a futuristic chamber piece about reality, fantasy, truth, manipulation, deception, humanity and lack thereof. To avoid...
2010s / Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Romance
by Vincent Leo · Published November 2, 2013 · Last modified December 10, 2019
Domhnall Gleeson stars as a young London lawyer named Tim Lake, whose recent heart-to-heart birthday chat with his usually undemonstrative father (Nighy) reveals an astonishing secret. It seems that men in their family line have...
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Film reviews from Vince Leo, from classics to new releases, since 1996.