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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 07 May 2011

Leatherheads is most on its game when it's in the game, and in the zone of Clooney's no-bull affection for the faces of his actors…

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By William Arnold (1,101) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 26 Apr 2011

For all its other virtues, the supporting casting is lackluster, the script never quite kicks into place as a sports movie and Clooney the…

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By Joanne Kaufman (79) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 14 Apr 2011

There's a jaunty score by Randy Newman, and Clooney, as always, has charm to burn, but here, he's off his game…

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By Simon Braund (70) for Empire (3,446) on 22 Mar 2011

On paper it looks like a gem – roaring 20s setting, verbal fireworks and a silly sport in its rude infancy…

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By Carina Chocano (358) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 29 Jan 2011

Leatherheads proceeds agreeably, hitting occasional high notes when it isn't getting bogged down in forced slapstick hi-jinks…

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By Ryan Stewart (47) for Premiere (771) on 24 Jul 2010

If the raison d'être of Leatherheads was not to add something to the football movie canon but to have Clooney and Zellweger engage in a screwball…

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By Lawrence Toppman (1,654) for Charlotte Observer (1,670) on 17 Feb 2010

In the end, Leatherheads recalls the gloriously dated sentiments of Grantland Rice, one of that era's beloved sportswriters, expressed 17 years…

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By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 21 Jan 2010

Feisty and good-humored, and if it doesn't have deep characters, it is chock-full of personality…

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By Wesley Morris (1,967) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 01 Jan 2010

The film moves slowly and steadily, but it's never exactly dull, just mild…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Salon.com (2,725) on 20 Nov 2009

You have to give Leatherheads this much: It's like no other comedy, or movie, out there these days…

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By Lou Lumenick (2,103) for New York Post (6,650) on 25 Sep 2009

Far from a touchdown, but you gotta give points to any movie where a character describes its climactic game as a muddy snoozefest…

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By Fernando F. Croce (840) for CinePassion (694) on 26 Aug 2009

Clooney stages screwball repartee like a ping-pong match shot through molasses…

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By Kimberley Jones (866) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 26 Apr 2009

You can’t read one of Clooney’s endless People profiles without hearing the Cary Grant comparison, but here, he’s all Gable – same…

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By David Ansen (1,073) for Newsweek (1,534) on 06 Mar 2009

The great '30s comedies had edge, bite and relentless forward momentum. Leatherheads is laid-back, amiable and terminally tepid…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 25 Jan 2009

Sidelined by a script that plays like an imitation of another era’s artifacts. It’s an oxymoron: a mild screwball romance…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 26 Oct 2008

It exudes goodwill and high spirits, occasionally makes you feel really good, and yet here and there and in some definite ways, it kinda sorta stinks…

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By Scott Foundas (913) for Village Voice (8,525) on 19 Oct 2008

For its entire two hours, Leatherheads is rarely less than very promising--and also rarely more…

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By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 14 Oct 2008

Mostly simply tries for fun, and for a good part of it, it delivers…

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By Bruce Bennett (577) for Spectrum (St. George, Utah) (575) on 18 Jul 2008

Leatherheads really doesn't know what kind of film it is, and as a result it shanks the winning kick -not by a mile- but by enough to be a…

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By Karina Montgomery (580) for Cinerina (549) on 16 Jul 2008

A gorgeous, charming, quaintly stylish movie comprised almost exclusively of moments and not so much story or characters…

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