Snowden (2016)
It would seem a daunting proposition to try to give a dramatization of events and issues that have already been captured brilliantly on film just a couple of years prior, as Snowden reenacts a good deal...
by Vincent Leo · Published September 18, 2016 · Last modified August 6, 2018
It would seem a daunting proposition to try to give a dramatization of events and issues that have already been captured brilliantly on film just a couple of years prior, as Snowden reenacts a good deal...
Isaac (Rogen, Steve Jobs), Ethan (Gordon-Levitt, The Walk), and Chris (Mackie, Love the Coopers) are friends since childhood who’ve made it a point, after Ethan’s parents are killed by a drunk driver, to get together every Christmas Eve...
2010s / Action / Superhero / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published July 30, 2012 · Last modified June 12, 2019
Years ago, I had claimed that, despite its faults, X-Men: The Last Stand was the best third film in a superhero series to date, which goes more to show how ideas seem to dissipate once the...
by Vincent Leo · Published August 11, 2006 · Last modified November 29, 2019
First-time writer-director Rian Johnson’s script for Brick was written shortly after film school in the mid-1990s, during a period when he had read just about any Dashiell Hammett book he could get his hands on. ...
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.