Article: MUDDLE IN THE HUDDLE -Clooney's `Leatherheads' mostly just fumbles around

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 ...

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