Leatherheads mixes it up between football and a Howard Hawks-esque screwball comedy romance--Clooney and Zellweger are charming together--but the best scenes are on the gridiron.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 8, 2024

Clooney creates a balance between farce and his commentary on football politics, delivering a pleasant throwback.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 15, 2023

Attempts to reimagine a '30s diversion in comedy zaniness - but with only partial success.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 28, 2020

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.

| Original Score: C | Oct 29, 2019

The film looks great, and the production design is stunning, but the final product is overlong and tedious.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 6, 2019

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.

| Oct 11, 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.

| Aug 25, 2018

A slovenly, timid, strenuously studied movie that takes forever to get nowhere, uninterestingly.

| Aug 23, 2018

If the likes of His Girl Friday and Ball of Fire are the standards, Leatherheads can be forgiven for falling short.

| Aug 1, 2015

| Original Score: B | Feb 18, 2012

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 4, 2011

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.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 29, 2011

Clooney stages screwball repartee like a ping-pong match shot through molasses

| Aug 27, 2009

Agreeable yet uneven...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 22, 2008

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.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 15, 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.

| Original Score: C | Jul 19, 2008

A gorgeous, charming, quaintly stylish movie comprised almost exclusively of moments and not so much story or characters.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 17, 2008

Therein lies the problem with Leatherheads %u2014 it has too many fish to fry, and most of them come out half-done.

| Original Score: 2.0/4 | Jun 28, 2008

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 13, 2008

Star power is not enough to save this film from mediocrity.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 12, 2008