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  • Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind (2002)
    Review preview for Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind

    This is Clooney's debut as a director and he does a terrific job.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A game show host becomes a CIA hitman in his spare time.
  • Good Night, And Good Luck (2005)
    Review preview for Good Night, And Good Luck

    Good Night, And Good Luck proves that it is still possible in the cinema, if not in television, to inform without being boring and entertain without condescending.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    The integrity of journalism is pitted against the politics of the Cold War in Fifties America.
  • Leatherheads (2008)
    Review preview for Leatherheads

    A treat for the senses from beginning to end.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    It's 1925, and an aging American football pro trying to make the sport a success falls for a journalist out to bring down one of its biggest stars.
  • The Midnight Sky (2020)
    Review preview for The Midnight Sky

    This is what cinema does best - showing us technicolor worlds that make us see and appreciate the black and white home.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5
    As a catastrophe unfolds on Earth, a dying man crosses the Arctic in an attempt to make contact with a spacecraft which may have found a habitable world elsewhere.
  • The Monuments Men (2014)
    Review preview for The Monuments Men

    The film becomes a mixture of Dad's Army and The Cockleshell Heroes (without the cockleshells).

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    A Second World War platoon are given the job of rescuing artwork form Nazi thieves.
  • The Tender Bar (2021)
    Review preview for The Tender Bar

    As Jackson Browne’s My Opening Farewell delivers a lyric about standing before a window, we get a shot of the boy standing before a window. Did Clooney make this in his sleep?

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    A young man gets taken under the wing of his bar-owning uncle.

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