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Unemployment Gets a Lift in 'Up in the Air'
George Clooney's intentionally ambiguous character Ryan Bingham is a poster boy for America's lack of ethical direction in this thought-provoking satire about America's unemployment epidemic.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
12-01-2009 |
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Well Made As It Is, 'Leatherheads' Doesn't Have Anything to Say About Anythingnew
Coming from a guy like Clooney, who has recently starred in Michael Clayton and Syriana and directed Good Night, and Good Luck, that lack of substance is a little unexpected and disappointing.
Tags: George Clooney, Leatherheads
George Clooney's Football Folliesnew
With its speak-easies and patina of easy Roaring Twenties corruption, its bungling cops and daring hijinks, romantic rivalry and slinky moments of seduction, Leatherheads delivers two solid hours of old-fashioned entertainment.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
04-18-2008 |
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Fumblenew
Say what you will about George Clooney as an actor: As a director, he clearly has balls. Vintage leather balls, in fact.
Eugene Weekly |
Jason Blair |
04-10-2008 |
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'Leatherheads' is Clooney's First Failure as a Directornew
The earnest but dull Leatherheads is a good-looking but boring fictional film about the rise of professional football in the 1920s, and everybody looks lost in it.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
04-10-2008 |
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Tags: George Clooney, Leatherheads
George Clooney Tackles Preglory Gridironnew
For the two hours it takes to watch it, Leatherheads is rarely less than very promising -- and also rarely more.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
04-04-2008 |
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I Might Be in Love with George Clooneynew
Set when professional football consisted of little more than "miners and farmers and shell-shocked veterans" beating each other up in turnip fields, Clooney's Leatherheads continues the star/director's steady march back through time.
The Portland Mercury |
Erik Henriksen |
04-03-2008 |
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Renee Zellwegger Poster Girl for Period Piecesnew
Although Renee Zellwegger is perhaps best known for playing modern Brit Bridget Jones, she hasn't portrayed a contemporary American character for six years.
The Georgia Straight |
Ian Caddell |
03-28-2008 |
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Pseudo Arabia
Written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, who scripted Steven Soderbergh's structurally kindred Traffic, the intriguing but finally unsatisfying Syriana is the latest product of the Clooney-Soderbergh salutary-cinema factory.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
12-09-2005 |
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To Cite Edward R. Murrow, 'See It Now'new
Director and co-screenwriter George Clooney strikes just the right tone of gripping entertainment and understated cautionary tale in this thoughtful portrait of newsman Edward R. Murrow's confrontation with Sen. Joseph McCarthy.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-21-2005 |
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