Leatherheads Reviews
October 29, 2019
When Leatherheads focuses on the gridiron, it is slightly amusing and worth your time, but once it gets into a romantic triangle involving the three leads, Leatherheads feels like any other tired romantic comedy.
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| Original Score: C
June 6, 2019
The film looks great, and the production design is stunning, but the final product is overlong and tedious.
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| Original Score: 2/4
October 11, 2018
The audience most likely to enjoy this film-fans of classic romantic comedies like It Happened One Night and His Girl Friday to which Leatherheads pays homage-are most likely to be put off by a smattering of obscenities.
August 25, 2018
Is Leatherheads a retro screwball comedy? A patriotic tribute? A sliver of sports history? It's all those things and more. Alas, more is not necessarily better.
August 23, 2018
A slovenly, timid, strenuously studied movie that takes forever to get nowhere, uninterestingly.
August 27, 2009
Clooney stages screwball repartee like a ping-pong match shot through molasses
February 2, 2009
Leatherheads tries to be a screwball comedy, but it's more The Eleven Stooges.
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| Original Score: 2.0/5
July 19, 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 disappointment.
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| Original Score: C
July 17, 2008
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
June 28, 2008
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
June 12, 2008
Star power is not enough to save this film from mediocrity.
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| Original Score: 2/5
June 11, 2008
"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
June 8, 2008
I'm sad to report that Clooney has had his first misfire as a director.
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| Original Score: 2/4
June 7, 2008
It's the bad moments that will probably stay with you.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
May 4, 2008
Clooney's third movie as director is his weakest.
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| Original Score: 2/5
May 1, 2008
Leatherheads shoots for the Frank Capra/Howard Hawks goal posts but instead winds up getting bogged down midfield.
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| Original Score: 2/5
April 16, 2008
A quiet variety of disaster--the type that attracts no cults and appears as a curiosity on a few talented folks' résumés for people to try to place in a year or so. Maybe less.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
April 16, 2008
Clooney tries to Flags of Our Fathers if directed by Preston Sturges.
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| Original Score: 5/10
April 16, 2008
A 1920s football saga that blends rusty screwball comedy and perfunctory romance under a period piece veneer.
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| Original Score: C
April 11, 2008
Probably only Clooney could expect to get away with a movie this bad...
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| Original Score: 1/5