Few works of historical fiction have been so imaginative in premise, yet so dull and lackluster in execution. Freud’s Last Session puts a powerhouse pair of actors, Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode, in the shoes of two renowned real-life figures, Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis, as they engage in theological debate. But the resultant conversation, based on the play of the same name by Mark St. Germain (who co-wrote the screenplay with director Matthew Brown), would be laughed out of a high school philosophy club. Despite the caliber of its performers — especially Hopkins, who’s in the most fascinating phase of his career with works like The Father and One Life — Brown’s film is an utter dud.
Leo vs. Leo: Which of Netflix’s two hit movies with the same name is vital to your life?
06.12.2023 - 18:11 / polygon.com / Adam Sandler
The churn of Netflix content makes it almost inevitable that occasionally disparate movies and TV shows will share similar titles. It’s decidedly less typical for two different films bearing the exact same title to arrive on the service at roughly the same time. But that happened in late 2023: One movie called Leo arrived on the service on Nov. 21, followed by another movie called Leo just a week later.
Understandably, this has caused some confusion among viewers who aren’t sure whether they want to watch an animated romp about a talking lizard counseling fifth graders in Florida, or an Indian action blockbuster riffing on the David Cronenberg film A History of Violence. Fortunately, we’ve put together this handy guide for telling these two Leos apart, and figuring out which Leo is right for you.
Both movies feature a lot of computer-generated animals. If you want to see those animals talking, giving advice, and advocating for themselves, the fully animated Leo is your best bet: It stars Adam Sandler as the titular iguana, a fifth grade classroom pet who experiences a crisis of mortality upon learning that he is, in fact, 74 years old, and may be near the end of his lifespan.
Leo plans to escape and see more of the world that’s passed him by, hoping to take advantage of a new classroom initiative where each student must take him home with them for a weekend. Instead, he winds up helping each kid in the classroom through their one-on-one interactions — a neat structure that freshens the movie up whenever it threatens to turn into formula.
It turns out that in spite of Leo’s sheltered existence (he can’t even do basic addition and subtraction, because that’s covered down in second grade, not fifth), a lifetime of classroom experience has left him with a surprising amount of wisdom, and the kids take to his gentle but honest (and, in Sandler vocal tradition, somewhat mush-mouthed) counseling. It’s all surprisingly sweet.
If you prefer kindness to animals chased with cruelty to humans, however, Parthi (Joseph Vijay Chandrasekhar, professionally known as just Vijay), the hero of the live-action Leo, will work better for you. Parthi runs a popular cafe and also works in animal control. Early in the film, he subdues a (computer-generated) hyena that’s terrorizing his small town, flexing his suspiciously dexterous physical prowess while refusing to kill the animal. He tranquilizes the beast, and not long after, he’s practically nuzzling it, and encouraging his young daughter to do the same.
Later in the movie, Parthi shows no such mercy when his family and employee are menaced by a gang of criminals — which in turn attracts the attention of some other criminals, who are convinced Parthi is actually Leo, their
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