
Joe Leydon
Film Critic at Variety
Senior Writer at Cowboys & Indians
Film critic: @Variety. Member: @criticschoice, @HoustonCritics. Top Critic: @RottenTomatoes. So where to now, St. Peter?
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1 month ago |
variety.com | Joe Leydon
More often than not, when you hear some movie fans of a certain age complain “They sure don’t make them like they used to,” they’re referring to, and likely wishing for, something on the order of “The Last Rodeo.” Smoothly directed by Jon Avnet (“Fried Green Tomatoes,” “Up Close & Personal”) from a script he co-wrote with lead actor Neal McDonough and Derek Presley, this thoroughly predictable but undeniably engaging faith-based drama is an inoffensively old-fashioned entertainment that, with...
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1 month ago |
variety.com | Joe Leydon
Call it “Chainsaws on a Plane,” and you won’t be far off the mark. Of course, to be totally accurate, there’s only one power-driven cutting tool put to lethal use in “Fight or Flight,” director James Madigan’s outrageously and often uproariously over-the-top action-comedy that concocts a cut-and-paste lift from “Bullet Train,” then dials it up to 11 during a Transpacific flight on a humongous passenger plane.
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1 month ago |
flipboard.com | Joe Leydon
1 day agoNew York, United States - May 06, 2025 (L-R) Josh Hartnett and Katee Sackhoff attend the 'Fight or Flight' New York Premiere at AMC Lincoln Square Theater, New York, NY, May 6, 2025. (L-R) Julian Kostov, Josh Hartnett and Katee Sackhoff attend the 'Fight or Flight' New York Premiere at AMC Lincoln Square Theater, New York, NY, May 6, 2025.
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Mar 28, 2025 |
variety.com | Joe Leydon
In recent years, there have been a number of dramas and documentaries detailing the appalling mistreatment of Native American children forcibly held in church- and state-run Indian Boarding Schools — ranging from the Taylor Sheridan-produced “1923” to the Oscar-nominated “Sugarcane” — for such historical overviews to comprise a subgenre.
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Mar 28, 2025 |
flipboard.com | Joe Leydon
5 hours agoYolanda Saldívar, the woman convicted of killing Selena, is denied paroleThe Mexican American singer known as the “Queen of Tejano" was fatally shot in 1995 at a motel in Corpus Christi, Texas.
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