{"id":376382,"date":"2026-01-18T04:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T04:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/376382\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T04:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T04:52:08","slug":"george-clooney-names-cinemas-only-perfect-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/376382\/","title":{"rendered":"George Clooney names cinema’s only “perfect” movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Credits: Far Out \/ LucaFazPhoto<\/p>\n

Sat 17 January 2026 21:15, UK <\/p>\n

The most interesting thing about the simmering feud between George Clooney<\/a> and Quentin Tarantino is whether or not the latter has a valid point to make about his From Dusk till Dawn collaborator.<\/p>\n

At first glance, he doesn\u2019t. Tarantino suggested that he wouldn\u2019t consider Clooney a movie star because he hadn\u2019t made anything worthwhile since the millennium, which is objectively wrong, since the actor and filmmaker has enjoyed almost all of his biggest successes since the turn of the 21st century.<\/p>\n

The easiest way to counteract those claims is to point to Clooney\u2019s two Academy Award wins from eight nominations in six different categories, all of which came after 2006, the Ocean\u2019s franchise earning over a billion dollars at the box office, Gravity, The Perfect Storm, his Coen brothers collaborations, or any of the other big wins he\u2019s enjoyed either critically, commercially, or during awards season.<\/p>\n

The other side of the coin is that he hasn\u2019t made a lot of great movies recently. Jay Kelly was pretty good, but forgettable outings on both sides of the camera<\/a> in Wolfs, The Boys in the Boat, The Tender Bar, The Midnight Sky, and Suburbicon have hardly set the world on fire. And yet, Clooney remains a star.<\/p>\n

He did tell Tarantino fuck off<\/a> for his comments, and had a dig in Tarantino\u2019s direction after he launched his unprompted attacks on Paul Dano, Owen Wilson, and Matthew Lillard, so it feels safe to say that they won\u2019t be working together any time soon, even if the director had more than one film left on his docket.<\/p>\n

What made Clooney stand out was that he felt like a \u2018Golden Age\u2019 star with \u2018New Hollywood\u2019 sensibilities who emerged in the modern era, which makes sense when Sidney Lumet\u2019s Network is his favourite movie of all time<\/a>, Paul Newman was one of his onscreen heroes, and Batman & Robin was a stark reminder that he wasn\u2019t cut out to be a blockbuster leading man.<\/p>\n

Most people would call the film that resides at the top of their favourites list as the closest thing to perfection that they\u2019ve ever seen, but not him. Instead, when W Magazine<\/a> asked Clooney which picture never fails to make him cry, no matter how many times he\u2019s seen it, there was only one title that came to mind.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe end of It\u2019s a Wonderful Life,\u201d he offered. \u201cWhen he sees the card that says, \u2018No man is a failure who has friends\u2019. Kills me. It\u2019s a perfect film.\u201d It\u2019s definitely a classic, but one thing that\u2019s always held Frank Capra and James Stewart\u2019s beloved fable from hovering around the very best of the best conversations is that not many people give a shit about it for 11 months of the year.<\/p>\n

Network, the first two Godfather films, Citizen Kane, The Shawshank Redemption, and the rest are talked about in cinematic circles for 365 days a year, but It\u2019s a Wonderful Life doesn\u2019t come out of hibernation until December. As far as Clooney is concerned, though, every single frame is absolutely flawless.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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