George Clooney

There are worse sports movies that "The Boys in the Boat," and probably worse World War II-era films. But that might be the film’s biggest problem.

Julia Roberts and George Clooney somehow manage to elevate "Ticket to Paradise" above just a mediocre offering to something more endearing and entertaining.

The Coen brothers first started publicly discussing their idea for Hail, Caesar! over a decade ago, but the resulting film feels jauntily tossed together in a fraction of that time. In some ways that’s a good thing. The film has a loose comic energy that allows it to slip easily from lengthy sketches to plottier sequences. But it’s also lacking in coherence. The Coens seem unsure if they’re making...[Read More]

Ladies and gentlemen, we are floating in space. I felt it in the new film Gravity; I knew what it was like to be set adrift in outer space. Not the series of half-understood, embellished images in a century of movies and books, but the foreign physical nature of muscle-free tumbling, crucially aided by instruments carefully calibrated by human brains and fashioned by other machines – devices to he...[Read More]

You need to know this from the start – there are no negatives when it comes to The Descendants. The movie is a nearly perfect package. Yes, this is George Clooney’s greatest role (more on that later), but the other key pieces – supporting actors, writing, directing, cinematography, and music – all fit together like a customized glove to make writer/director Alexander Payne’s drama/comedy about a w...[Read More]

Dipping into his A-list Rolodex, George Clooney assembles an enviable cast to bring to life his fourth directorial effort – the heated political drama The Ides of March. Clooney has often deflected questions of actual political aspirations while maintaining a strong presence in left-leaning causes which he now voices with plainspoken idealism through his character Governor Mike Morris. On the prim...[Read More]