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John Leonard

John Leonard's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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A Christmas Carol (1984) 98% EDIT “As Scrooge, Scott is wonderful.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed (2006) EDIT “Having grown up on Lenny Bruce and Mort Sahl, I'm still waiting for a 21st-century stand-up Toxic Avenger.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jul 31, 2019 Full Review Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back (2000) EDIT “... [W. Earl Brown] has been impressive in everything from Vampire in Brooklyn and Scream to There's Something About Mary and Being John Malkovich...” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 8, 2018 Full Review Bash: Latter Day Plays (2000) EDIT “The performances are superb.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 8, 2018 Full Review A Force More Powerful (1999) EDIT “It seems to me that we could do a whole lot worse than look at A Force More Powerful and imagine ourselves in its mirrors. There are heroes here.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 7, 2018 Full Review The Last Dance (2000) EDIT “By the numbers, but the buttons they push light up emotions it's nice to know we still harbor.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 7, 2018 Full Review The Last Days (1998) 96% EDIT “Let it be said up front that the unspeakable has to be spoken -- that every scrap of testimony to the Holocaust must somewhere be recorded; that the survivors and historians should insist on preserving every syllable...” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 6, 2018 Full Review Well Founded Fear (2000) EDIT “As the case officers interrogate them, the documentary interrogates us: Who do we want to be?” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 6, 2018 Full Review Harlan County War (2000) EDIT “Harlan County War... is that oddest of enterprises, a pretty good docudrama prompted by a superb documentary.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 6, 2018 Full Review Longitude (2000) 83% EDIT “... absorbing docudrama based on Dava Sobel's terrific little science book of the same name published by Penguin.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 6, 2018 Full Review An American Daughter (2000) EDIT “That Wendy Wasserstein's beltway play, An American Daughter... turns out to be better on television than it was on Broadway shouldn't come as a big surprise.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 6, 2018 Full Review Nuremberg (2000) EDIT “Still, both Nuremberg, the mini-series, and Judgment, the equally long Hollywood movie, are star turns for actors as monsters and actors as victims.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 6, 2018 Full Review They Nest (2000) EDIT “... loath as I am to suggest anything big-screen instead of small, you're better off seeing terrible things happen to Michelle Pfeiffer in What Lies Beneath.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 6, 2018 Full Review A House Divided (2000) EDIT “For all its predictability, A House Divided has surprising power, and I think that power derives from what it doesn't say behind its screens -- those screams of denial.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 6, 2018 Full Review High Noon (2000) 50% EDIT “Without Tex Ritter's performance of the Dimitri Tiomkin theme song, "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me)," this copycat crime is just asking for capital punishment.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 6, 2018 Full Review EDIT “Never before has Greek antiquity looked quite so much like a coffee shop.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 6, 2018 Full Review Arabian Nights (1942) 75% EDIT “They should have adapted, instead of Arabian Nights, a children's book that derives from (while modernizing) the same classic text -- Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 6, 2018 Full Review Running Mates (2000) 14% EDIT “Running Mates would lose in any primary that included Altman's Tanner '88 or Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing, but it's a lot more interesting than the Harvard-Yale game.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 6, 2018 Full Review Geppetto (2000) EDIT “I'm as amused as anyone when Carey breaks into song-and-dance. But half of that amusement is the sight of an amateur imitating a professional. Professionals can't afford to be amateurish.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 6, 2018 Full Review The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000) EDIT “Although we may have hoped for transcendence, we should be grateful for a last hurrah.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 6, 2018 Full Review The Thin Blue Lie (2000) EDIT “The Thin Blue Lie, slick and scary, redresses a dangerous imbalance.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 6, 2018 Full Review One Day in September (1999) 97% EDIT “Director Kevin Macdonald turns this material into a nonfiction thriller the more appalling for its resonance with the tape in our own heads.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 6, 2018 Full Review David Hare's Via Dolorosa (2000) EDIT “It's almost insulting to say that Via Dolorosa is remarkable theater. It is 90 minutes of exacerbation and unraveling, of a mind at the end of its tether.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 6, 2018 Full Review The Linda McCartney Story (2000) EDIT “While Elizabeth Mitchell is uncanny as Linda, there are no prurient details for a TV movie to divulge.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 6, 2018 Full Review Growing Up Brady (2000) EDIT “What's instructive about Growing Up Brady is that, even on television, all families are unhappy in their own way, proving Tolstoy's point.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 6, 2018 Full Review
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