Carefully doling out information... Leon maintains a buoyant energy that's given even more bounce by the film's lively score and soundtrack

| Apr 24, 2017

The plot and characterizations are as self-consciously phony as anything in the early French New Wave, but minus the experimental intent, the commentary on genre and the gaze, or the extreme personal investment.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 21, 2017

The two leads are remarkably fresh, and so is the movie.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 21, 2017

It's Tramps' attitude to be short and sweet that proves definitive, vital.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 21, 2017

At a time when American romantic comedies aim for broad humor and questionable gender politics, [the film] provides a more intimate contrast to the market standard. If romantic comedies need a savior, Leon may be their best hope.

| Original Score: B | Apr 19, 2017

A small-scale work that owes its charm to the freshness, relaxed intimacy and unforced humor of its character interplay, and to the warm feel for the environments through which they move ...

| Sep 11, 2016

A sweet-natured, modern film with a charming patina.

| Sep 11, 2016

The echoes of fast-talking, flirty couples from screwball through French New Wave, from Woody Allen through every promising Woody wannabe, reverberate through this zippy, well-acted tale.

| Sep 11, 2016