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One of the biggest stars and best actors of the last 2 decades IMO, often more interested in roles that might win him awards but that hasn't led to any shortage of entertaining movies on his resume'.
10. Django Unchained
I'm not a big Tarantino fan and of his two Westerns I might actually prefer The Hateful Eight overall, but this is a great scenery chewing performance from Leo where he really plays his first full on villain and does so with aplomb in an overlong but good Western.
9. Titanic
It's a bit cheesy and it's young DiCaprio, but it's also grandiose Hollywood glamour and spectacle at it's best and has a charm that clearly captured the audience of it's time.
8. The Aviator
An engrossing biopic about a fascinating man that mixes in Golden age Hollywood with some groundbreaking moments in Aviation, a visual delight and top performance from Leo, really underrated IMO.
7. Body of Lies
Leo's only movie in the epsiongae genre to my knowledge, directed by Ridley Scott with a strong supporting performances from Russell Crowe and Mark Strong, this is a harsh look at the cold reality of a CIA operative, the politics, the brutal choices and morally comprimising choices that these men face which are pretty much the opposite of the way most films depict the life of a Spy or Agent.
6. Catch me if you Can
This was the first film where DiCaprio really won me over as an actor, he's so good as the slick, good natured con man chased by Tom Hanks FBI Agent in a breezy two hander from Spielberg, great stuff.
5. The Revenant
The one that finally won Leo his long coveted golden baldie, for me it isn't the best performance of his career but it is a very good one, and the movie itself is like a savagely beautiful painting, full of sweeping shots and visceral bursts of action as Leo's Hugh Glass embarks on a harsh unrelenting quest for survival and revenge.
4. Blood Diamond
Underrated film IMO, it's kinda like a serious version of Romancing the Stone lol, Leo's character has an interesting moral arc and there's great support from Jennifer Connelly and Djimon Hounsou. Ed Zwick pulls it all together delivering some big action and adventure to compliment the very human stakes.
3. Shutter Island
I read the book before I saw the movie so the twist was spoiled, but that doesn't stop this being a wonderful slice of atmospheric noir cinema, a twisty psychological thriller with superb performances throughout and a real visual flair.
2. The Departed
The one I felt DiCaprio should have won the Oscar for, a gripping, twisty, tension fueled crime thriller that never lets go from minute one to the devastating finale, a rarity in that it improves on the film it is remaking.
1. Inception
Arguably the boldest summer blockbuster of the last several decades, the mind heist thriller filled with as many questions as it has answers. Total Recall meets Heat, meets The Matrix with a finale from a Bond movie? It's a unique film layered with action, excitement, intrigue and uncertainty.
10. Django Unchained
I'm not a big Tarantino fan and of his two Westerns I might actually prefer The Hateful Eight overall, but this is a great scenery chewing performance from Leo where he really plays his first full on villain and does so with aplomb in an overlong but good Western.
9. Titanic
It's a bit cheesy and it's young DiCaprio, but it's also grandiose Hollywood glamour and spectacle at it's best and has a charm that clearly captured the audience of it's time.
8. The Aviator
An engrossing biopic about a fascinating man that mixes in Golden age Hollywood with some groundbreaking moments in Aviation, a visual delight and top performance from Leo, really underrated IMO.
7. Body of Lies
Leo's only movie in the epsiongae genre to my knowledge, directed by Ridley Scott with a strong supporting performances from Russell Crowe and Mark Strong, this is a harsh look at the cold reality of a CIA operative, the politics, the brutal choices and morally comprimising choices that these men face which are pretty much the opposite of the way most films depict the life of a Spy or Agent.
6. Catch me if you Can
This was the first film where DiCaprio really won me over as an actor, he's so good as the slick, good natured con man chased by Tom Hanks FBI Agent in a breezy two hander from Spielberg, great stuff.
5. The Revenant
The one that finally won Leo his long coveted golden baldie, for me it isn't the best performance of his career but it is a very good one, and the movie itself is like a savagely beautiful painting, full of sweeping shots and visceral bursts of action as Leo's Hugh Glass embarks on a harsh unrelenting quest for survival and revenge.
4. Blood Diamond
Underrated film IMO, it's kinda like a serious version of Romancing the Stone lol, Leo's character has an interesting moral arc and there's great support from Jennifer Connelly and Djimon Hounsou. Ed Zwick pulls it all together delivering some big action and adventure to compliment the very human stakes.
3. Shutter Island
I read the book before I saw the movie so the twist was spoiled, but that doesn't stop this being a wonderful slice of atmospheric noir cinema, a twisty psychological thriller with superb performances throughout and a real visual flair.
2. The Departed
The one I felt DiCaprio should have won the Oscar for, a gripping, twisty, tension fueled crime thriller that never lets go from minute one to the devastating finale, a rarity in that it improves on the film it is remaking.
1. Inception
Arguably the boldest summer blockbuster of the last several decades, the mind heist thriller filled with as many questions as it has answers. Total Recall meets Heat, meets The Matrix with a finale from a Bond movie? It's a unique film layered with action, excitement, intrigue and uncertainty.
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