Leatherheads Reviews
ComingSoon.net
Leatherheads is too light-hearted to rise above its limitations, and its inability to decide on a tone doesn't help any, but it's too well crafted and thought out to be actually bad.
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| Original Score: 7/10
CinePassion
Clooney stages screwball repartee like a ping-pong match shot through molasses
Fayetteville Free Weekly
Leatherheads tries to be a screwball comedy, but it's more The Eleven Stooges.
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| Original Score: 2.0/5
Reel Film Reviews
Agreeable yet uneven...
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Window to the Movies
Mostly simply tries for fun, and for a good part of it, it delivers. But with it's jumble of elements, it doesn't allow a central one to take hold and truly fly.
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| Original Score: 6/10
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
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 disappointment.
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| Original Score: C
Cinerina
A gorgeous, charming, quaintly stylish movie comprised almost exclusively of moments and not so much story or characters.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Illinois Times
Therein lies the problem with Leatherheads %u2014 it has too many fish to fry, and most of them come out half-done.
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| Original Score: 2.0/4
Daily Telegraph (Australia)
This is the slightest of Clooney's directorial offerings, but it's carried over the line by two charismatic leads and a well-honed screenplay.
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| Original Score: 3/5
IGN Movies
Star power is not enough to save this film from mediocrity.
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| Original Score: 2/5
The Trend
"Leatherheads" fails because it has trouble balancing its many plots, and because it has nothing remotely interesting to say about any of them.
| Original Score: 1.5/5
Sin Magazine
I'm sad to report that Clooney has had his first misfire as a director.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Courier Mail (Australia)
It's the bad moments that will probably stay with you.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Atlantic City Weekly
The movie does a nice job with the period details, but Clooney still can't get the romantic comedy angle right.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
The Australian
Leatherheads, which opens with the logo that Universal used back in the 1940s instead of the present one, is so successful at reviving the screwball comedy that you're prepared to forgive it some flaws.
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| Original Score: 4/5
FILMINK (Australia)
As period rom-coms go, Leatherheads is mild entertainment.
At the Movies (Australia)
Leatherheads is like an oasis in the middle of a desert - a genuinely enjoyable romantic comedy.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Urban Cinefile
Meticulously recreating the era and the sensibilities of the time, Clooney looks as though he is having a riot of a time, be it is grappling in the mud for the ball, or throwing madcap lines at Renee Zellweger's worldly, ambitious journalist
Watertown Daily Times
It's hard to deny that Clooney is one of Hollywood's best leading men, and "Leatherheads" proves that he can be just as good behind the camera as he is in front of it.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Tucson Weekly
Clooney's third movie as director is his weakest.
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| Original Score: 2/5
