The Men Who Stare at Goats, as a film about men–their relationships with each other, in an Iron John sort of way–comes up lacking. There really isn’t any personality in the friendship between Ewan McGregor and George Clooney and there would have to be for it to work. In a lot of ways, Goats is […]
Entries Tagged as 'George Clooney'
The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009, Grant Heslov)
January 29th, 2010 · No Comments
Tagged: Ewan McGregor· George Clooney· Grant Heslov· Jeff Bridges· Jon Ronson· Overture Films· Peter Straughan· Robert Patrick· ★★★
Burn After Reading (2008, Joel and Ethan Coen)
December 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment
The Coens usually write tight scripts. Burn After Reading doesn’t have a particularly tight script. Instead, it’s got a bunch of great performances and funny scenes–astoundingly good dialogue (their use of curse words for humorous effect is noteworthy)–and some great details. But the film isn’t really much of a story. Literally speaking, it’s about what […]
Tagged: Brad Pitt· Ethan Coen· Focus Features· George Clooney· Joel Coen· Richard Jenkins· ★★★
Good Night, and Good Luck (2005, George Clooney)
January 11th, 2008 · No Comments
George Clooney directs Good Night, and Good Luck with an absolute confidence. It’s Clooney’s second film, but he doesn’t just know how to make a restricted setting story (the film takes place in the CBS building, a bar, and two to three other locations) exciting… he also knows how to make an informative docudrama into […]
Tagged: David Strathairn· Frank Langella· George Clooney· Grant Heslov· Robert Downey Jr.· Warner Independent Pictures· ★★★★
Ocean’s Twelve (2004, Steven Soderbergh)
March 22nd, 2007 · 1 Comment
The amusement factor. Does that term even make any sense? Ocean’s Twelve is, in case anyone watching it was confused (which I find hard to believe, but of the principals, only George Clooney makes exclusively smart movies so Brad Pitt and Matt Damon fans are suspect), about enjoying itself. It throws itself a party no […]
Tagged: Brad Pitt· Don Cheadle· Elliot Gould· George Clooney· George Nolfi· Matt Damon· Steven Soderbergh· Vincent Cassel· Warner Bros.· ★★★
Syriana (2005, Stephen Gaghan)
January 21st, 2006 · No Comments
What a sprawling and ambitious film… oh, wait, it’s actually neither. Syriana has a bunch of good performances (Matt Damon being the stand-out lead and Amanda Peet or Alexander Siddig being the supporting, with William Hurt turning in a really nice extended cameo), but with the exception of the Muslim suicide bomber, it’s emotionally empty… […]
Tagged: Amanda Peet· Chris Cooper· Christopher Plummer· George Clooney· Matt Damon· Robert Baer· Stephen Gaghan· Tim Blake Nelson· Warner Bros.· William Hurt· ★★



