2010s / Action / Science Fiction / Superhero
by Vincent Leo · Published May 6, 2016 · Last modified July 4, 2018
The Marvel Cinematic Universe, almost as if trying to address Batman v Superman and how to do a major superhero battle film right (or, after the disappointing Age of Ultron, how to do an Avengers film right), unloads Captain America:...
1990s / Horror / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published March 1, 2015 · Last modified April 22, 2019
Flatliners is a difficult film to pigeonhole. It’s sci-fi, but not really, and it’s horror, but not really that either. It’s more like a supernatural drama/thriller that dabbles with the question of the afterlife,...
David Ondaatje (if the last name sounds familiar, it’s because he’s the nephew of famous novelist Michael) writes and directs (his first attempt at both) this throwback thriller based on the Marie Belloc Londes...
It’s Nicolas Cage doing what he does best, play a self-defeating loser, in The Weather Man, a bigger budget Hollywood release that feels like a small, quirky independent comedy. It’s a comedy that just barely...
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...
The Daytrippers stars Hope Davis as Eliza, who one day finds an anonymous letter addressed to her husband (Tucci), seemingly romantic in nature. Although her marriage seems to be fine, she consults with her family...
I’m beginning to think that if Alexander Payne were to write and direct a film about the process of bee pollination, it would still be one of the best films of the year. Of...
ARLINGTON ROAD is an extremely farfetched thriller that delivers loads of tension but little logic. If all it took to be a great thriller were edge-of-your-seat theatrics, ARLINGTON ROAD would be a sure-classic, as the impressively taut...
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Film reviews from Vince Leo, from classics to new releases, since 1996.
