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Article: MUDDLE IN THE HUDDLE -Clooney's `Leatherheads' mostly just fumbles around
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 4, 2008
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Movie Review
Leatherheads
Directed by: George Clooney
Written by: Duncan Brantley and Rick Reilly
Starring: Clooney, Renee Zellweger, John Krasinski, and Jonathan
Pryce
At: Boston Common, Fenway, suburbs
Running time: 114 minutes
Rated: PG-13 (Brief strong language, cartoon violence, including
a great big barroom brawl and fistfight between Clooney and
Krasinski)
**1/2
George Clooney wins frequent comparisons to Clark Gable and Cary
Grant. But we don't have to go back that far: 2005's "Good Night,
and Good Luck," with its obvious political leanings (to the left, to
the left) proved that Clooney is more like Warren Beatty. (He acts,
he directs, he deflects the praise he seeks. What a ...