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...
by Vincent Leo · Published May 25, 1999 · Last modified February 24, 2019
Tracy (Kidman) and her college professor, Andy (Pullman), fall in love and get married, but have been unsuccessful in having children. Andy runs into a doctor (Baldwin) who is from the same school he...
1990s / Action / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published March 18, 1999 · Last modified March 9, 2023
Around 1978, Roland Emmerich, a film school student in Munich, screened a documentary about who built the Great Pyramids of Giza and why. The documentary incorporated ideas from Erich von Daniken’s book, “Chariots of...
A 20-year-old prodigy (Damon), also an orphan and hoodlum, is a janitor at MIT. With a great gift for mathematics, and self-taught in many other sciences, he gets taken in by a brilliant math...
1990s / Comedy / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published January 10, 1997 · Last modified March 4, 2019
One time unflappable box-office draw Eddie Murphy takes his first step to resurrecting his floundering film career with this tour de force in which he plays a 400-lb. chemistry professor named Sherman Klump, who...
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.
