2010s / Comedy / Drama / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published January 21, 2018 · Last modified July 4, 2018
Frances McDormand (The Good Dinosaur, Transformers: Dark of the Moon) plays Mildred Hayes, a financially strapped grieving mother who decides to rent, after selling her ex-husband’s tractor, the use of the titular three mostly dormant...
The third film in the Dan Brown adaptation series that already includes The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons sees Tom Hanks (Sully, A Hologram for the King) return to play main Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, who we...
by Vincent Leo · Published August 30, 2006 · Last modified January 22, 2019
A millionaire’s driver is shot dead in the room of his maid (Sommer, The Prize), and all the facts point to her guilt. Yet this doesn’t hinder the illustrious Inspector Clouseau (Sellers, Dr. Strangelove) to think she’s...
Although the film deals with murder at the core of the plot, Manhattan Murder Mystery proves to be one of the lightest of Woody Allen’s films, playing everything as a straight comedy, and the result is...
1930s / Comedy / Mystery / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published November 21, 1996 · Last modified January 18, 2019
A young woman (Lockwood, Night Train to Munich) heads home by train for her wedding, but along the way discovers that the woman she has tea with (Whitty, Suspicion) mysteriously disappears. After searching the train and questioning fellow...
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.
