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Thank you for another excellent review. I truly enjoy your reviews every month, whether I have seen the films or not. They are perceptive and thoroughly entertaining. I hope when Roger Ebert finally steps down, they will look to you to replace him. You will be a more than worthy successor.
Brenda Balfour
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By the way, I'll be very interested in reading your review of "American Gangster" which I hope you will do.
Brenda Balfour

Miles David Moore is probably the most intelligent film critic in our country. I am amazed at the overlapping concepts and arcs of meaning he can bridge from film to film, within one article.AND still adhere to theme. The articles show acute knowledge of art and a consummate literary skill. Moore's reviews and the New Yorker reviews are the only ones I'll bother with. And this current review I will reread with pleasure, just for the masterful turning of its language.
Grace Cavalieri

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I like Miles Moore's reviews very much, some of the best articles published in Scene4. But with this one I think he's off-base, or should I say off-sides. Clooney has really grown as an actor and his comedy skills are outstanding, they carry the movie. It's Renee Zellweger that let's it all down. She has the timing of one of those punch doll toys, up and back, side to side and no stops in between. She just cannot be funny. And if she ever stops squinting into the camera, we might find out one day if she has eyes and not glassy little marbles.
Don Merkis
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Dear Mr. Merkis, Thank you for your comment on my review of "Leatherheads." I find it very gratifying that in general you find my reviews among the best articles in Scene4 . And I certainly don't expect you or anyone else to agree with everything (or anything) I say about any given movie. When you say, however, that I'm "off-sides" in my review of "Leatherheads," and then attribute to me statements that are very different from what I actually said, I'm mystified. By defending George Clooney's abilities as a comic actor, you seem to be claiming that I denigrated them. This is what I said: "As the likable con man aptly named Dodge, Clooney is far and away the most compelling reason to see `Leatherheads.'" I also compare him to Clark Gable and Cary Grant. I did find his direction wanting in some of the football scenes, but I had nothing but admiration for his acting, and expressed nothing but admiration. It's true I liked Renee Zellweger's performance more than you did. Nevertheless, when I say that she should stop scrunching up her face so much, I may be a little closer to your opinion of Zellweger than you suggest.
Miles David Moore
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